I’m a stop motion animator with a love of tactile storytelling, handmade world and emotionally driven character animation. My work centres on performance, materiality and craft; blending traditional stop motion techniques with textiles, natural materials and experimental production methods to create animation that feels intimate and alive. Recent work includes animating and crafting the papercut stop motion music video Little Space (2024) for Coruja Jones, where rhythm, timing, and visual storytelling were led directly by the music. Alongside this, I animated and fabricated my award-winning short film Seaglass (2023), developed during my MA in Animation at the University of Salford. The film explores grief and won Best Student Animation at the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024 with selections at BAFTA- and BIFA-qualifying festivals. I recently worked at Aardman as a Trainee Assistant Animator and Set Dresser on Very Small Creatures Series 3 via the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder Scheme (2024). In this role, I supported character preparation, test animation, sculpting, prop painting and set dressing within a fast-paced studio pipeline. With a background in music education and long-term creative project delivery, I bring strong organisational skills, sensitivity to performance and timing and a collaborative, problem-solving approach to animation work.

Cheryl Blake

I’m a stop motion animator with a love of tactile storytelling, handmade world and emotionally driven character animation. My work centres on performance, materiality and craft; blending traditional stop motion techniques with textiles, natural materials and experimental production methods to create animation that feels intimate and alive. Recent work includes animating and crafting the papercut stop motion music video Little Space (2024) for Coruja Jones, where rhythm, timing, and visual storytelling were led directly by the music. Alongside this, I animated and fabricated my award-winning short film Seaglass (2023), developed during my MA in Animation at the University of Salford. The film explores grief and won Best Student Animation at the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024 with selections at BAFTA- and BIFA-qualifying festivals. I recently worked at Aardman as a Trainee Assistant Animator and Set Dresser on Very Small Creatures Series 3 via the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder Scheme (2024). In this role, I supported character preparation, test animation, sculpting, prop painting and set dressing within a fast-paced studio pipeline. With a background in music education and long-term creative project delivery, I bring strong organisational skills, sensitivity to performance and timing and a collaborative, problem-solving approach to animation work.

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I’m a stop motion animator with a love of tactile storytelling, handmade world and emotionally driven character animation. My work centres on performance, materiality and craft; blending traditional stop motion techniques with textiles, natural materials and experimental production methods to create animation that feels intimate and alive.

Recent work includes animating and crafting the papercut stop motion music video Little Space (2024) for Coruja Jones, where rhythm, timing, and visual storytelling were led directly by the music. Alongside this, I animated and fabricated my award-winning short film Seaglass (2023), developed during my MA in Animation at the University of Salford. The film explores grief and won Best Student Animation at the Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024 with selections at BAFTA- and BIFA-qualifying festivals.

I recently worked at Aardman as a Trainee Assistant Animator and Set Dresser on Very Small Creatures Series 3 via the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder Scheme (2024). In this role, I supported character preparation, test animation, sculpting, prop painting and set dressing within a fast-paced studio pipeline. With a background in music education and long-term creative project delivery, I bring strong organisational skills, sensitivity to performance and timing and a collaborative, problem-solving approach to animation work.

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Work Experience

Trainee Assistant Animator and Prop Maker - Season 3 Very Small Creatures at Aardman
October 28, 2024 - December 20, 2024
Pressing of characters from moulds Clean up and sculpting of characters Test animations as required by team Preparing and painting of props Assisting with set dressing as required.
Animator (Freelance) at Katuka Studios
February 7, 2022 - Present
Animator and Prop Maker for Coppafeel Breast Cancer Awareness Social Media Campaign - for By Young Studio (2025) Little Space - Directed and animated papercut stop motion live and animated music video for Coruja Jones (2024) https://youtu.be/GcGYA2P5fbY?si=qkmcNgYUg6ffz72F Regularly deliver community claymation workshops including: Workshop Assistant for Stop Motion workshops at We Invented the Weekend Festival in Salford 2023. (University of Salford), Ashton College of Health and Wellbeing (Global Grooves, Nov 22).

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