New teaching staff join the animation team

Programme Leader Andy Wyatt brings over twenty years experience in the animation industry to the course, and in that time has worked as an animation director at Aardman, been an animator on the Teenage Ninja Turtles, Grizzly Tales for Guesome Kids, Disney’s Duck-Tales and loads more. He has also run his own animation studio, producing animation for CBBC and Channel 4.

We are now delighted to announce some new additions to the teaching team;

Kim Emson on set.

Kim Emson is our specialist Stop Motion tutor, and when not teaching on the course is a very busy animator, with experience animating on Ooglies, the Clangers and with Tim Burton on Frankenweenie.

Our new stop motion studio is fully kitted out with DragonFrame and a professional animation stage with lights.

Damien Markey teaches 3D computer graphics and animation. Damien started his career as a television producer, moving into interactive television and then into visual effects. He has experience running and teaching visual effects courses and has graduates working at ILM (Star Wars), Double Negative (Ex Machina) and Framestore (The Martian)

Les Eaves has joined the team to teach character design and storyboarding. Les is an experienced storyboard artist currently working on on the Mr Bean TV show (the animated one) and has worked on many shows including Horrid Henry, Fleabag Monkeyface, Chuggington.