film & video

Animation & Motion graphics

I do traditional animation (such as my animation for the Pratfall credits) either hand-drawn or digitally using Photoshop.

I do rigged character animation (such as the Ant Story reels) using Photoshop and After Effects.

I occasionally do stop motion animation using Dragonframe.

I do all my motion graphics in After Effects, often using expressions for procedural animation and complex compositions.

Here's a short animation & motion graphics reel from 2023:

Animated graphic and email footer for Julianne Miller, an education consultant.

I created a looping graphic for Julianne Miller's website and email footer, alongside some pieces to camera and animated infographics.

Every frame was drawn digitally, using a mix of rotoscoping and straight-ahead animation, with colours rigged up separately.

Visit Julianne's website here.

Editing and Motion Graphics for BEAM Showcase 2025 Trailer

Watch on YouTube

Animated logo for The Yellow Path, an acupuncture training program

I worked on The Yellow Path's website redesign, and as part of that helped create animated versions of the logo.

Visit the website here.

Creative Captions & video design for Blue Apple Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and the Thief of Antiquity

I regularly design video and captions for Blue Apple, a theatre company based in Hampshire which creates shows with learning disabled casts.

For this original production, I was given free rein to design the video for Sherlock's thoughts and deductions. We were able to projection map captions across the whole stage so that specific lines would appear near the characters speaking

The animations were designed in After Effects and the captions were run on Isadora.

For more of my animation and motion design work, click here -- for more of my video design for performance, click here.

Stills from the show:

Film title design & animated credits sequences

I've created opening and closing titles for several short films. For my short film Pratfall, I animated the characters for the closing credits (and was credited under my cartoonist pen name, Wes Beckett).

Other films which I've done title design for include It's My Party, directed by Rosie Robinson (below) and Waiting, directed by Katie Friedli Walton.

Animated reels for Ant Story by King Louie's Lab

App design and animation for the English National Opera's Finish This... project

In 2022, the English National Opera were running a schools outreach project called Finish This... which encouraged school classes to create their own operatic pieces using voices, instruments, and found objects.

The ENO wanted a way to present all these creations, and wanted schools to be able to make their own animated music videos if they wished. I was asked to come up with a solution so that schools could create their own custom music videos in response to the audio they had already made.

Using Max MSP for its audio capabilities, I created a standalone app for Windows which would let the user customise animations which would programmatically respond to the music.

See below for some of the animations I created, a peek behind the curtain on what the node-based programming looked like, and my explainer video on how to use the application.

Other work

I've done so much different work that it's hard to fit it all in -- so here are some other things I haven't been able to include otherwise.

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  One For All: a livestreamed gameshow with remote contestants

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  Pinocchia: an award-winning remote performance

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  Facilitation work and arts workshops

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  Tech support for simultaneous interpretation

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  Minority language film screenings

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  Four More Walls: award-winning digital workshops

My background

I've been drawing as long as I can remember, and making films as soon as I could get my hands on a camera.

I got into technical theatre at university, and learned the software for video design and projection mapping during lockdown.

I'm self-taught when it comes to coding and software development.

I now work as a freelance artist, filmmaker, and designer.

Skills

I'm a generalist and have a wide skillset, including:

Education

I have a BA in Philosophy and Linguistics (graduated 2021).

I studied film with the BFI FutureFilm Academy (2017) and was on the BAFTA Mentorship programme (2018).

I studied facilitation with the National Theatre Learning Department.

I have a Level 2 Certificate in British Sign language, and am currently studying Level 3.

While at school I took classes in cartooning and comic book art from HuwJ Matsumura.

My interests

I'm interested in stories: film, theatre, prose, music, journalism, anything with narrative.

I like working on projects which embrace and champion accessibility -- I've worked on projects with Deaf artists, learning-disabled artists, and artists with limb differences.

I'm interested in minority languages -- I've started curating film screenings of films in British/Celtic minority languages.

I love movies -- my favourite filmmaker is Buster Keaton.

I studied analytic philosophy at university, and am particularly interested in metaphysics and logic. I wrote my thesis on time travel.

I play bass guitar and occasionally write songs. I play basketball (badly) and am taking gymnastics/tricking classes.

Contact

You can email me at djangopinter @ gmail.com

(Any videogame related questions please send to django @ pondarea.com)