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Animation Director and Lead/Senior Animator with 26 years’ character and effects animation experience across broadcast and the internet. Skilled in supervising animation, creating reusable cycles and assets, and mentoring teams to hit deadlines while maintaining quality. Experienced across multiple long-form TV productions including Josephine (Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production) and Stanley/Tortel (Hoopla Studio/Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production). Also established in freelancing since the late 1990s, delivering design, storyboarding, animation, compositing, and production support for a wide range of clients and formats.…Animation Director and Lead/Senior Animator with 26 years’ character and effects animation experience across broadcast and the internet. Skilled in supervising animation, creating reusable cycles and assets, and mentoring teams to hit deadlines while maintaining quality. Experienced across multiple long-form TV productions including Josephine (Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production) and Stanley/Tortel (Hoopla Studio/Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production). Also established in freelancing since the late 1990s, delivering design, storyboarding, animation, compositing, and production support for a wide range of clients and formats.

Ed Willmore

2D Animator, Animation Director, Animator, +3

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Animation Director and Lead/Senior Animator with 26 years’ character and effects animation experience across broadcast and the internet. Skilled in supervising animation, creating reusable cycles and assets, and mentoring teams to hit deadlines while maintaining quality. Experienced across multiple long-form TV productions including Josephine (Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production) and Stanley/Tortel (Hoopla Studio/Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production). Also established in freelancing since the late 1990s, delivering design, storyboarding, animation, compositing, and production support for a wide range of clients and formats.…Animation Director and Lead/Senior Animator with 26 years’ character and effects animation experience across broadcast and the internet. Skilled in supervising animation, creating reusable cycles and assets, and mentoring teams to hit deadlines while maintaining quality. Experienced across multiple long-form TV productions including Josephine (Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production) and Stanley/Tortel (Hoopla Studio/Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production). Also established in freelancing since the late 1990s, delivering design, storyboarding, animation, compositing, and production support for a wide range of clients and formats.

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Animation Director and Lead/Senior Animator with 26 years’ character and effects animation experience across broadcast and the internet. Skilled in supervising animation, creating reusable cycles and assets, and mentoring teams to hit deadlines while maintaining quality.

Experienced across multiple long-form TV productions including Josephine (Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production) and Stanley/Tortel (Hoopla Studio/Warnick Studios/Caligari co-production). Also established in freelancing since the late 1990s, delivering design, storyboarding, animation, compositing, and production support for a wide range of clients and formats.

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Work Experience

Animation supervisor at Warnick Studios / Caligari co-production

December 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024

Animation supervisor for Josephine (20x11min). Created many animation cycles and produced animation tutorials and demonstrations for the production.

Animation supervisor at Warnick Studios / Caligari co-production

February 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023

Animation supervisor for Tortel (6x22min) covering Feb–Aug 2023.

Animator at Mackinnon and Saunders

November 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023

Animator on Stanley (Nov 2022–Dec 2023).

Animation Director (one of 2) at Hoopla Studio

December 1, 2019 - September 30, 2022

Animation Director duties (Daisy and Ollie series 5 and broader responsibilities). After Series 4, recruited animators for Daisy and Ollie Series 5; supported pre-production with reuse animation and preparation of assets/libraries for each episode; allocated shots to animators; checked blocking and animation stage; provided feedback; processed shots for compositing and completed retakes; kept the producer updated on progress (largely remote). Also shared animation direction responsibilities while progressing series schedules and quality checks.

Lead Animator at CHF Entertainment / Hoopla Studios

September 1, 2013 - November 30, 2019

Lead Animator responsible for 3–5 animators and for animating portions of multiple series: Daisy and Ollie (4 series) and Pip Ahoy (3 series), plus additional animation tasks. Reported to the Animation Director, filtered animation for quality, supported meeting deadlines, and performed retakes as needed; assisted the AD with schedule and production demands.

Freelance Animator

January 1, 1998 - November 30, 2013

Freelance work across designing, storyboarding, animating, and compositing animation and backgrounds for TV commercials, children’s cartoons, promos, image pieces, short films for websites, and tech interfaces. Worked with web designers to create animation for web delivery. Experience with clients including Adobe, Sony, McDonalds, Volkswagen, Nokia, Kinder, Kellogg’s, Philips and others; companies include CHF Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Cosgrove Hall, BBC, CNN, Not to Scale, Tandem, Th1ng One, ITV, Slinky Pictures, and Bermuda Shorts.