David Bunting Animaton
No One is an Island (2024) Coming Soon!
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
Environmental Artist James McKay has an animated conversation with scientists studying if it’s possible for everyone to live a good life without damaging the environment.
Based on The Living Well Within Limits project, supported by a Leverhulme Research Leadership Grant awarded to Professor Julia Steinberger.
Film Festival distribution - Festival Formula. Read more on the Film Page.
A Christmas Carol (2020)
ANIMATION DIRECTOR
“The star of the show is David Bunting’s delightfully smudgy animation, which, aided by James McKay’s art direction, looks like a picture book evocatively brought to life and is reminiscent of John Leech’s original 1843 illustrations while having a distinctive style all of its own.”
Christmas Carol. Front Room Productions & Lawrence Batley Theatre
Boy and the Dinosaur -Pilot (2012)
CO-CREATOR/ PRODUCER & DIRECTOR
“This charming preschool show centers on an ordinary four-year-old Boy and his extraordinary Dinosaur and blends big, visual storytelling and broad physical comedy, with plenty of original music and a simple educational philosophy.”
Based on an original idea by Jason Harding, I working alongside scriptwriter Davey Moore, motion animator Paul Couvella and the client, to develop a 1 line premise into a series concept. I drew all the storyboards for the pilot and oversaw all stages of production. The promo animation was produced at Studio Distract. Animatic pilot extract ‘Slide’ boarded by myself. Edited by Jane Hicks. Copyright Shooting Star Animation
The Astronomers Sun (2010)
PRODUCER /2D FX ANIMATOR
“This exquisitely crafted and sensitive film manages to raise some profound and surprisingly emotional ideas, all in a few oblique, beautiful and economic minutes. Animation at its’ mysterious and haunting best.”
Duchy Parade Films for Channel 4, UK Film Council & Screen Yorkshire. Written and directed by Simon Cartwright and Jessica Cope
Strange Meeting (2000/2021)
SEQUENCE DIRECTOR
“It is as if all experiences are within his gaze, and symbolically, everything is happening within that gaze”
In my directorial debut, I animated and sequence-directed ‘Strange Meeting’ for the TV short Wilfred whilst studying at Senior College, Dublin. Completed at Tandem Films, after long hours on ‘The Tigger Movie’, the film premiered at Cannes International Film Festival. To mark the centenary of Owen's death, I rescanned and composited ‘Strange Meeting’ in Harmony, including scenes that broke the computers back in the day.
Duchy Parade Films. Powerfully narrated by Britain’s leading poet-playwright, Tony Harrison, this animated adaptation of Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting was produced for Peter M Kershaw's TV special "Wildred".