Animation
For 25 years I have worked on various independent and commercial animation projects. Collaborative and commissioned projects have ranged from National Film Board documentaries, feature animation, interactives, video games, and winning TV Specials. But my first job in the animation industry was as an inbetweener on the Oscar winning director Richard Williams’ feature film The Thief and the Cobbler’. The experience working at Richard Williams Studio was the inspiration for my 14-minute 2D animated short ‘ Creamers’. The Thief and the Cobbler famously never got completed despite the army of talent that was on the crew as well as Richard Williams own incredible artistry.
Working on it was unbelievably slow and repetitive. But it was a formative and unforgettable first job and it inspired me to create a story about a woman who does something repetitive and dreams of doing something more. Creamers traditionally animated using paper, TV Paint, and combined with 3D assets. I worked on it with a small team of artists from 2010 to 2015. It was self-produced with development funds crowd campaigns, BC Arts Council, and the National Film Board of Canada.
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