** The Future of Animation in NI **
We are excited to announce our panel of speakers for our event this Thursday with Animates-Events!
- Craig Fish, Animation Director, Paper Owl Films.
- Richard Gordan, Managing Director, JAM Media
- Brian Gilmore, Animation Veteran, Elk Studios.
- Our very own Daryl Crothers!
Read below to find out a bit more about each of our speakers!
Craig Fish, Animation Director, Paper Owl Films.
Craig Fish has worked in the Animation Industry for the last 20+ years.
His speciality is budget animation for TV and Film, assessing 2D animation pipelines and sitting over multiple departments within a production.
Craig firmly believes in training up talent to be ‘Production Ready’ and emphasises the importance Paper Owl Films has on sharing the knowledge they acquire as they gain more experience, growing their talent pool and upskilling their teams to compete on a global stage.
Richard Gordan, Managing Director, JAM Media
Richard heads up JAM Media’s studio in Belfast and is responsible for overseeing operations and productions in the studio.
Richard is currently producing ‘Emerald’ - 20 X 11 minutes for SKY Kids and ‘Tim Rex’ - 60 X 7 minutes for Nickelodeon, in addition to ‘BeddyByes’ - 52 X 11 minutes for CBeebies. He recently completed producing animation on ‘Isadora Moon’ - 52 X 11 minutes for SKY Kids/Warner and a 2D animation feature film entitled ‘A Greyhound of a girl’.
Other recent credits include ‘Nova Jones’ (20 x 24 mins) for CBBC - series producer, ‘Jessy & Nessy’ (40 x 11 mins) for Amazon Prime - series producer, ‘Becca’s Bunch’ (52 x 11’) for Nickelodeon - producer. He has also produced award winning short animated films “The Wiremen” for the Irish Film Board and RTE (2018); Featherweight (2019) and Candlelight (2022) with NI Screen.
Brian Gilmore, Animation Veteran, Elk Studios.
Brian Gilmore is a 30+ year animation veteran that has seen the industry transform from Analog to Digital in his career. Having started out in Murakami Wolf Dublin working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he has travelled the world working on big budget movies and TV series (Inc. Space Jam & Asterix).
He spent most of his time in Ireland (20 years) working for Brown Bag Films in multiple roles. Following that he spent 2.5 years building a feature film studio for Boulder Media/ Hasbro to produce the CG feature film My Little Pony – A New Generation released 2021. For the next 3 years Brian worked with TU Dublin managing the CG apprenticeship, as well as consulting with Screen Skills Ireland and other Industry training ventures. He also continues to work in the industry as a consultant with some of the top animation studios around like Cartoon Saloon, Giant Animation and Aardman.
Brian has also been focused on developing CMAI as a commercial training venture, leading it as the industry expert and building its slate of training courses.
Currently he is working with Elk studios to build and grow the studio as it prepares for a major longform series.
This meet up will be an evening of networking and insightful presentations from industry leaders about the exciting future of Northern Ireland’s Animation, Games and Film industry.
Join us as we explore Northern Ireland’s entertainment industry!
Contact Daryl Crothers for more details:
E: daryl@haywardhawk.com
T: 028 9590 2688
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