I've had a varied career since I graduated from Middlesex University with a Graphic Design degree in 1993, working as a concept artist and designer, storyboard artist, director, illustrator, production designer and art department in film, television, commercials, pop promos, videogames and events.
I started as a runner on a TV show, working my way upwards into various art departments on commercials, promos and TV until by the late 90s I was an art director and production designer. Around this time my work was beginning to diversify - I was doing storyboards for commercials and advertising agencies as well as visualising concepts for events and parties. During the early 00s I was also working with animatronic designer Neal Scanlan doing concept and character design on kids TV shows and movie projects.
By 2007 I’d been storyboarding for 10 years and worked on hundreds of ads, some TV drama and a few small features. That year, one of my clients I’d been boarding viral ads for - The Viral Factory - asked me to direct an animated ad for Samsung. This got over 10 million views at the time and earned me a D&AD Yellow Pencil. I went on to direct various other weird online ads with The Viral Factory and was subsequently represented as a commercials director with Outsider in 2012. However this career path was short-lived as in the summer of 2013 I joined Neal Scanlan and the Creature FX department on Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a Concept Designer.
Over the last 9 years I’ve gone on to design creatures, aliens and droids for all five new Star Wars films plus the Rogue One spin-off TV show Andor. Away from Star Wars I’ve also got to concept characters, monsters and props for Artemis Fowl, The Glass Onion, Overlord and 10 Cloverfield Lane as well as commercials for Skoda and John Lewis. I've also been doing a lot more storyboarding again, including working on Venom 2, an aborted Tomb Raider sequel, The Meg 2, Raised By Wolves and the Halo TV series.
FEATURE AND TV CONCEPT DESIGN
STAR WARS Andor (S02) - Lucasfilm - TV - Concept Design - 2022
WEDNESDAY - MGM - Concept Design - 2022
THE GLASS ONION (KNIVES OUT 2) - Lionsgate/Netflix - Concept Design - 2021
TBA Movie - MGM - Concept Design - 2020
STAR WARS Andor (S01) - Lucasfilm - TV - Concept Design - 2020
CARNIVAL ROW (S02) - Stillking - TV - Character Concepts - 2019
STAR WARS The Rise of Skywalker - Lucasfilm - Creature Concept Design - 2017-2018
DOLITTLE - Universal - Concept Artist - 2017
ARTEMIS FOWL - Disney - Concept Artist - 2017
OVERLORD - Paramount/Bad Robot - Concept Artist - 2017
STAR WARS Solo - Lucasfilm - Creature Concept Design - 2016-17
STAR WARS The Last Jedi - Lucasfilm - Creature Concept Design - 2015-2016
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE - Paramount/Bad Robot - Concept Artist - 2015
STAR WARS Rogue One - Lucasfilm - Creature Concept Design - 2014-2015
STAR WARS The Force Awakens - Lucasfilm - Creature Concept Design - 2013-2014
DOWNHILL - Outsider - Chapter Animations Illustrator - 2012
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY - Warner Bros - Animatronic Design Concepts - 2003
OTHER CONCEPT DESIGN
JOHN LEWIS CHRISTMAS 2021 - nineteentwenty - commercial - Concept Design - 2021
SKODA ENYAQ - Academy - commercial - Character Design - 2021
PLAYSTATION 5 - Timebased Arts - commercial - Concept Design - 2020
XBOX SERIES X - MPC - commercial - Concept Design - 2020
TBA AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE - Factory 42 - Character Design - 2019
EDEKA 2117 - MJZ - commercial - Character Design - 2017
MOON & ME - Foundling Bird - Character Design - 2016
REEFWORLDS - Theme Park - Concept Design - 2012, 2013, 2016
TOYOTA - Outsider - commercial - Character Design - 2012
SAMSUNG - The Viral Factory - commercial - Character Design - 2012
ROLY MO & LITTLE BO - Novel Entertainment - Character Design - 2003, 2004
DON’T EAT THE NEIGHBOURS - Granada Media - Character Design - 1999-2000
STORYBOARDS
VENOM 3 - Feature - Sony - Kelly Marcel - 2023
HALO (S02) - TV series - Paramount - Debs Paterson/Otto Bathurst - 2022
THE CHANGELING - TV series - Annapurna - Melina Matsoukas - 2022
MADAME WEB - Feature - Sony - S.J. Clarkson - 2022
THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH - Feature - Warner Bros - Ben Wheatley - 2020-2022
BALENCIAGA FALL 2021 - commercial - MPC - 2021
HYENAS - Game Trailer - Passion - Jon Saunders - 2020
TOMB RAIDER 2 - Feature - MGM - Ben Wheatley - 2020
VENOM 2: LET THERE BE CARNAGE - Feature - Sony - Andy Serkis -2019
RAISED BY WOLVES - TV series - Film Afrika/Scott Free - Luke Scott - 2019
SNAKE AND MONGOOSE - feature - Wayne Holloway - 2012
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - BBC drama - Brian Kirk - 2011
CHANEL Coco Mademoiselle - commercial - Psycho - Joe Wright - 2010
JAMES BOND 007 Bloodstone - videogame - Activision/Bizarre - 2009
BLUR - videogame - Activision/Bizarre - 2008
FAQ ABOUT TIME TRAVEL - feature - Gareth Carrivick - 2008
INTO THE STORM - TV feature - Thaddeus O’Sullivan - 2008
WHITECHAPEL - TV drama - David Evans - 2008
previous commercials clients:
MJZ, MPC Creative, RSA, Stink, Knucklehead, Amarillo, BBC, Blink, Partizan,
Independent, Outsider, BBC/Red Bee, Sky, Rogue, Shine, The Viral Factory, Patricia Murphy Films
agency boards for:
Mother, M&C Saatchi, BBH, Publicis, VCCP