Ahoy.
In my 20+ year career I’ve designed, animated, lead teams and collaborated with others to create and develop new worlds, characters and ways to interact with them.
I want to always make experiences which are covered in the fingerprints of the team that created them. It’s everyones personalities and interests that make the creation process far more interesting and leads to a more memorable and creative conclusion.
Although I’ve mostly made digital things, I still want people to be able to feel them, as if they were holding something tangible and handmade.
What’s that mean? Well, in the case of games, it’s building worlds that are extremely responsive to the players input and encourage players be playful and inquisitive. Worlds with memorable characters that draw players in with stories that go deeper than they expect. And I want to reignite creativity in an audience, inspiring them with handcrafted visuals that they can add to it with their own customisations and creativity. So that they’ll be able to inspire me in return!
Currently I’m taking some time-out to work on personal projects. But I’m available for particularly interesting opportunities, especially weird left-field things. You can contact me here.
Personal Awards
BAFTA Breakthrough Brit 2011
Evening Standard Most Influential List 2019
H100 Most Creative People (UK)
Proctor & Stevenson
Interactive Designer of the Year
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Professional Awards
Awards for work on Knights And Bikes include:
IGF Winner (Excellence in Visual Arts), 4 BAFTA nominations including Artistic Achievement and Best British Game, SXSW nomination for Cultural Significance.
7 BAFTA nominations, and 3 BAFTA award wins for Tearaway (including Artistic Achievement), SXSW Award for Design & Direction.
LittleBigPlanet awards include 8 Awards from The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and the
Artistic Achievement (BAFTA)
Selected Exhibitions
Permanent Collection - Young V&A, London, UK
Into The Pixel - Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA
Broken Age Tribute Show - Gallery Nucleus, California USA
Multiple Shows - IAm8Bit, Los Angeles, USA
Ghosts - Gallery 1988, San Francisco, USA
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Speaking Events
V&A Museum - London, Pictoplasma - Berlin, Playgrounds - Amsterdam / Eindhoven / Berlin Playful -London, DICE - Las Vegas, Game Developers Conference - San Francisco, MIGS - Montreal, IgroMir - Moscow, FMX - Stuttgart, E3 - Los Angeles, CES - Las Vegas, Design Week - Peru, GameCity -Nottingham, Animex -Teeside, Brazil Games Show - Sao Paulo,
Goldsmiths University - UK, National Film and Television School (NFTS) - UK, Falmouth University - UK