I’m an experienced story artist, animator, and director of award-winning content.

Filming my first animation at age 9 with a super-8 camera, I studied Animation at Senior College Ballyfermot, Dublin, the European Partner school to Sheridan College, Canada. An internship in Visual Effects at Walt Disney Feature Animation, France opened the door to work as a classical drawn SFX animator for TV and feature films, including Disney’s The Tigger Movie and the title sequence for Thunderbirds.

A love of storytelling and drawing led me towards storyboarding and filmmaking. Training in feature film storyboarding at Aardman Animations, and a stint storyboarding on Shaun the Sheep, I’ve been fortunate to train and work with some of the best in the UK animation industry.

Passionate about indie animation, I co-produced the multi-award winning 4mations Digital Short The Astronomers Sun for Channel 4 television. In 2020, I teamed up with illustrator James McKay to direct a 40-minute special of A Christmas Carol for Lawrence Batley Theatre and Front Room Productions. Our commissioned animated documentary, No One is an Island (2024), exploring groundbreaking science in climate change, is currently playing on the film festival circuit.

An Associate Lecturer at the University of Arts London, I’ve given talks at workshops at The BFI Academy, Cinemagic (Dublin & Belfast) and Fest Anca (Slovakia). Between 2016 and 2019 I co-curated Animation Central, the UK’s biggest family animation celebration at Leeds Young Peoples Film Festival.

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Storyboards for TV - click to view

My storyboards are built on a classical animation background, informed by training at Aardman Animations and grounded in a love of storytelling.

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2D FX for Film & TV

***A love of the natural world, informed by an internship at Walt Disney Feature Animation, France, informs my effects animation.***
As well as keeping pushing my art using the latest digital technology, particularly in short films, I employ my FX design skills in storyboards, to give the director and CG FX teams quick FX design concepts in what are often fast paced television schedules.

2D traditional effects reel from feature films, shorts, commercials and series. From tradigital effects hand-animated FX in ToonBoom Harmony to paper.

Clients include Disney, Cartoon Network, Channel 4, Nexus Productions & Tandem Films.