ABOUT ME
My name is Matt, and I'm an illustrator, animator and designer based in Leicestershire, UK.
As a kid, I spent hours drawing my favourite characters and one of my earliest attempts to get my work on telly was to get a Snoopy drawing good enough to send into the Saturday morning show, The Multicoloured Swap Shop.
Even then, I knew I enjoyed the challenge and wasn't sure how, but I wanted to pursue a career in art.
My hobby eventually led me to study visual communication and design as a degree and later a postgraduate diploma in animation production. I'm not sure why but it took me a long time to consider animation as a career.
In the late 90s I graduated and found my first creative position as an animator/designer in a great studio near Waterloo Station in London. Although Ealing Animation mainly created stop motion series the role had a lot of varied 2D responsibilities and was a great first step on my professional creative journey.
As a animator, storyboard artist, character designer, or background artist I have been fortunate to work on shows, features, and games such as Bod the Builder & Pingu (Hot Animation), Cramp Twins, Heidi and Rudy & Trudy (Telemagination), Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs (Silver Fox Animation), A Christmas Carol (Illuminated Film Company) Likeables and Chugginton (Cosgrove Hall Films), Sergeant Stripes (Ealing Animation) and I even ended up as the furry arm of an artistic monster on a live-action kids show (Ni Ni's Treehouse) briefly.
In more recent years have been able to broaden my experience running a design and animation team creating platforms, games, and promotional material for leading online educational resources providers EducationCity & Edmentum Learning.