I'm a very traditional 2D Animator. I direct, design, storyboard & animate. My work is largely 'cartoon' and often 'fully animated'. I've worked since 1995 - on a range of TV commercials, animated specials, indie short films - in collaboration with other Directors and on my own work. I've been a Supervising Animator and have also worked as an Animation Timer, as well. I'm happy to use Photoshop and TVPaint to draw and animate. To see more of my work, please visit: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Or visit my website (there's more work on the Vimeo page, presently) at: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Day rate = £220 (but I'm happy to negotiate as necessary) Recently: In 2017, a feature length live-action/animated documentary ("Mansfield66/67" - Dir: Todd Hughes and David Ebersole, The Ebersole Hughes Company) - that features 2 sequences (totalling 3 minutes) that I designed, storyboard, animated and directed - with the help of some students from Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School - where I taught Animation at the time, was screened at Cannes Film Festival: In 2018, another feature length live-action/animated documentary that I drew the character animation for, was premiered at the London Film Festival BA(Hons) Animation - from Surrey Institute of Art and Design_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) PTTL - Teaching Qualification from Tower Hamlets College (2011) I'm currently in the 3rd Year of a Part-Time Practitioners PhD (in Animation; focusing on Character Design/Representation at Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School)…

ElroySimmons

I'm a very traditional 2D Animator. I direct, design, storyboard & animate. My work is largely 'cartoon' and often 'fully animated'. I've worked since 1995 - on a range of TV commercials, animated specials, indie short films - in collaboration with other Directors and on my own work. I've been a Supervising Animator and have also worked as an Animation Timer, as well. I'm happy to use Photoshop and TVPaint to draw and animate. To see more of my work, please visit: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Or visit my website (there's more work on the Vimeo page, presently) at: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Day rate = £220 (but I'm happy to negotiate as necessary) Recently: In 2017, a feature length live-action/animated documentary ("Mansfield66/67" - Dir: Todd Hughes and David Ebersole, The Ebersole Hughes Company) - that features 2 sequences (totalling 3 minutes) that I designed, storyboard, animated and directed - with the help of some students from Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School - where I taught Animation at the time, was screened at Cannes Film Festival: In 2018, another feature length live-action/animated documentary that I drew the character animation for, was premiered at the London Film Festival BA(Hons) Animation - from Surrey Institute of Art and Design_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) PTTL - Teaching Qualification from Tower Hamlets College (2011) I'm currently in the 3rd Year of a Part-Time Practitioners PhD (in Animation; focusing on Character Design/Representation at Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School)…

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I’m a very traditional 2D Animator. I direct, design, storyboard & animate. My work is largely ‘cartoon’ and often ‘fully animated’. I’ve worked since 1995 - on a range of TV commercials, animated specials, indie short films - in collaboration with other Directors and on my own work. I’ve been a Supervising Animator and have also worked as an Animation Timer, as well. I’m happy to use Photoshop and TVPaint to draw and animate.

To see more of my work, please visit:

Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

Or visit my website (there’s more work on the Vimeo page, presently) at:

Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

Day rate = £220 (but I’m happy to negotiate as necessary)

Recently: In 2017, a feature length live-action/animated documentary (“Mansfield66/67” - Dir: Todd Hughes and David Ebersole, The Ebersole Hughes Company) - that features 2 sequences (totalling 3 minutes) that I designed, storyboard, animated and directed - with the help of some students from Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School - where I taught Animation at the time, was screened at Cannes Film Festival:
In 2018, another feature length live-action/animated documentary that I drew the character animation for, was premiered at the London Film Festival

BA(Hons) Animation - from Surrey Institute of Art and Design_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_)
PTTL - Teaching Qualification from Tower Hamlets College (2011)
I’m currently in the 3rd Year of a Part-Time Practitioners PhD (in Animation; focusing on Character Design/Representation at Leeds Beckett University/The Northern Film School)

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Skills

Experience Level

Microsoft Word
Expert
Adobe After Effects
Intermediate
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate
Adobe Premiere Pro
Intermediate
Dropbox
Intermediate
Final Cut Pro X
Intermediate
Adobe Illustrator
Beginner
Toon Boom Harmony
Beginner
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Language

Education

BA (Hons) Animation at Surrey Institute of Art and Design
September 25, 1995 - June 25, 1995
PTTL at Tower Hamlets College
September 29, 2010 - May 10, 2011
Dates listed are recollections.

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Retail
    uniE608 sc012 - from FutureLondon (for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park)
    This short scene (seen in the full film, here - https://vimeo.com/316616348) features Tom Daley. The short film features (mercifully brief) animated depictions of several medal winning athletes. The film also features some words spoken by its narrators - incorporated into graphical depictions of street signs and scoreboards etc.…
    uniE608 A line-test from FutureLondon (2015) for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
    The coloured, composited version of this line-test features in the 2 minute film (viewable on my 'Elroy Simmons Vimeo Page') on the Olympic Park; the excitement surrounding its use in the 2012 Olympic Games - and the Olympics' regenerative impact on that part of East London.…
    uniE608 Falcon (Hawk Screech) - featured in a Romford Shopping Centre
    As with the Squirrel, I made this second animation - using Photoshop and AfterEffects. The animation was to be viewed using a downloadable app, via shoppers' smartphones. The animation loop was 'fixed' to the wall where the image sits - and moves 3-dimensionally, in relation to the viewer's vantage point of it.…
    uniE608 Squirrel - Public Art (displayed in a Romford Shopping Centre)
    I worked on two of the nine animations, viewable via a smartphone app (appearing as if fixed - 'virtually' to the wall), dotted around the Shopping Centre site (the other being a Falcon). A noted spray can artist drew nine still images of various animals, birds and insects; The Colour Project (based in the London Bridge area) oversaw production of the animations - and the other seven animations were 3D CG.…
    uniE608 Anton on the Mountain - from "Mansfield 66/67"
    In this second sequence from this live-action/animated documentary, Anton Lavey features. Lavey has been called on to help save Jayne Mansfield's son, following the lion attack featured in 'Jungleland'. The sequence - as the first, is based on real events. For the characters' design, I referred to cartoons from around the era - made by UPA (I liken Lavey to Mr Magoo - and Maynsfield's children refer to Gerald McBoing Boing, for examples) and Hanna Barbera (Mansfield is a mix of references to Penelope Pitstop and another 'Warner Bros.-esque' character featured in "A-Z". I worked with students I taught at Leeds Beckett University to make these films.…
    uniE608 Jungleland - from "Mansfield 66/67" (Premiered 2017)
    Directed by Todd Hughes and David Ebersole. Jungleland is the first of two cartoon sequences that illustrate Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield's close/controversial association with Anton Lavey. In this sequence, Mansfield's son is attacked by a lion, in an animal park. This sequence and Anton on the Mountain are based on real events.…
    uniE608 Tony and Angela
    Short animated opera directed by Lyn Hagan in 2013. I drew the 2D Animation and the animation was composited by Jonathan Klahr, who was assisted by Paul Jay Nicholson. The film follows an inappropriate relationship between a prisoner (Tony) and a prison guard (Angela). Tony drew tattoo art that depicted Angela. Various tattoo designs by Tony were selected by the Director to be animated by me (using paper and pencils).…
    uniE608 A-Z
    A personal, relatively experimental, cartoon short - about 'difference' and 'diversity' - and in the form of a list. The words on the list prompt an associated word or term, or a tangential variation, or a complete opposite word or term - affording an illustration of the varied, differing viewpoints that are best tolerated or heard to build a worldview that isn't (hopefully) too narrow.…
    uniE608 Elroy Simmons Showreel 2016 (2017)
    This reel was, in the end, 'unveiled' in Autumn 2018. I worked for a year or so at an advertising agency, animating digital cat food adverts from early 2017 to early 2018, then completed animation for a feature length live-action/ animated documentary ("Doozy" - Director: Richard Squres LMFYFF) - which premiered in October 2018 at the London Film Festival (hence, my at last unveiling it). I animated, or designed/animated, or directed/designed everything here. I didn't direct the stuff from TV commercials. To see this and other examples of my work, please visit my Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/pasticherie animator…

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