Liam Mclaughlin

Responsible for 3D Blender animation work, lighting, rendering, and asset building. Supports production by preparing and optimizing assets, ensuring scenes render cleanly and consistently, and contributing to timely delivery of animated content.

Directed animated content for the UK Pavilion at EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Responsibilities included supervising layout, providing creative direction for scenes involving the star characters, directing character animation and scenic animation, and managing departments before and after animation completion. Managed assets, tracked progress with milestones to meet deadlines, and handled rigged 2D character faces plus textured characters and scenes. Responsible for lighting and rendering for character-related scenes. Conceived and directed 2 marketing campaigns for the pavilion, including drawing and timing out animatics, and overseeing animation, texturing, lighting, and final rendering.

Directed animated content for the UK Pavilion for EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Supervised layout, provided creative direction for star-character scenes, directed character animation and scenic animation, managed departments before and after animation completion, and managed assets. Tracked progress and created milestones to stay aligned with deadlines; handled rigged 2D faces; textured characters and scenes; was responsible for lighting and rendering across all character-involved scenes. Conceptualized and directed two marketing campaigns for the pavilion. Drew and timed animatics and oversaw animation direction, texturing, lighting, and final rendering for the end product.