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GET TO KNOW MARK
Can you describe the extent of any relevant work experience you might have?
I have experience in creative team work from our several animation group projects at Escape and I love to take every opportunity to expand my understanding of the industry from professionals and talks. I also have experience in commission work.
My professional team work experience includes volunteer stewarding at festivals, data analysis at Tearfund and a decade of Scouting (ranging from DofE Gold to running water sport activities for a 250 young people)
How would you describe your contribution to your group project?
I joined the Keep Cooking team at the start of production where I adjusted to their art style and contributed to rough animation, clean up, colour and compositing. At the end of the project I've become a lead technical artist; my Toon Boom Harmony knowledge and technical mindset enabled me to teach and design our Harmony compositing process and additionally help in editing.
What do you specialise in and what made you choose that specialism?
During my time at Escape Studios I've been additionally studying rigged cutout animation in Toon Boom Harmony. This is so I may experience the wider animation environment, and it works well with my technical half (extended out to rigging and compositing too).
I've also studied Storyboarding for it started my creative journey. First as the ideas for Lego short films when I was 10, then the inspiration for my love and desire to study animation (to better tell those stories) and for the ideas that are still developing today.
What would your ideal first role in the industry be?
Animator
Which of your student projects are you most proud of, and why?
I love to grow on every project (animating a farmer putting on a jacket for last year's 'Pork Pie', for instance) and this year my story about a dancing squirrel was chosen to be developed. We did not continue it after pre-production but I am proud of it; for the chance to start learning to direct, to have developed an idea with my team and with professional feedback, for building a wider team from outside the university, the awesome work my team achieved under significant challenges and to have let it go for the greater good, where both I and my team have contributed to other projects.
What’s a piece of media (film, game, animation) that changed the way you think about your discipline?
There are too many to name but Cartoon Saloon's 'Wolfwalkers' came out at the perfect time for me. As I was considering my future steps here came a 2D animated, stylised, UK made movie with a lovely story seeing a wide distribution, my dream!
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