My Details
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Great Britain , London
Current Work Details
- What I do
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Animator, Animation Director, Flash animation, Live Action Director, After Effects animation, Motion Graphics and Title Sequence Designer, Storyboard Artist, Concept Artist, Editor, Compositor, Illustrator, Documentary Filmmaker, Artist
- Company
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Carnival Figures Ltd
- Website
- Blog Feed
- Where I work
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I run my own company or organisation
- Technical Skills
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After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Media 100, Avid, and (previously) linear editing packages. Live action direction of crew and actors, Green Screen filming of actors and products, experience using Sony HD, Panasonic HVX200 , Canon XL1 and Sony DV cameras, as well as (previously) various SVHS and VHS cameras, Photoshop image manipulation and After Effects compositing and animations, including title sequence animation of text, images and graphics. Character animation (Flash, 2D traditional, rostrum camera) Alex specialised in animation during his MSc in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee University. Previously Alex studied Film & Media (2.1 BA (Hons)) at Stirling University, where he also made a number of experimental short films, radio plays, sound compositions and radio journalism pieces.
- Resources / Expertise
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2D animation, Flash animation, 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, Camera and Lighting, Green Screen Filming, Direction of Actors and Crew, Photoshop artworker, After Effects animations, title sequence animations, Ident Designs and animations, compositing, Editing on Premiere Pro, Illustration ( combining digital and traditional media ) Design Web design
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Training
- 1999-2000
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Duncan of Jordanstone Dundee University,
MSc Electronic Imaging / Animation, Pg Dip Electronic Imaging / Animation - 1993-1999
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Stirling University,
Film & Media, 2.1 BA (Hons)
My Social Web
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- Films I wish I had made
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Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bladerunner, Star Wars, Suspiria, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Phenomena, Beetlejuice, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Don't Look Now, David Cronenberg, Videodrome, The Fly, Existenz, Jaws, The Muppet Movie, Planet Earth etc (D Attenborough docs), Back to the Future trilogy, Ghostbusters, Batman (1989), Vertigo, North by Northwest, Hitchcock, The Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day off, Donny Darko, Woody Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nausicaa of The Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, The Big Lebowski, Being John Malkovich, The Graduate, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Lost in Translation, The Shining, Dr Strangelove, Poltergeist, Superman trilogy, Mars Attacks!, Big Fish, Vincent, Edward Sissorhands, The Nightmare before Christmas, Batman Returns, Pleasantville, Beevis and Butthead Do America, The Incredibles, Juno, Hedgehog in the Fog, Mike Leigh, Naked, Happy-go-Lucky, Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris, Rain, Jean Vigo, Jean Renoir, Georges Méliès, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, Salvador DalÃ, Luis Buñuel, Orson Wells
- Directors I love
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David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Spike Jonze, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Hayao Miyazaki, Michel Gondry, Richard Linklater, Nicolas Roeg, Dario Argento, Ridley Scott...(see above)
- My desert island discs
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Brian Eno, David Bowie, The Cure, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Pixies, Black Francis, Prince, Plastikman, Richie Hawtin, Plaid, Two Lone Swordsmen, Hardfloor, Susumu Yokota, Pete Namlook, Nick Cave, Boards of Canada, Future Sound of London, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddy Fresh, LFO, Adham Shaikh, Amon Tobin, Fuse, Gerd, the song 'Prince' by Global Goon, Luke Slater, Gotan Project, Johnny Cash, The Violent Femmes, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Daniel Ash, Tones on Tail, Peter Murphy, Mercury Rev, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ian McCulloch, The Beatles, Sun Electric, Harold Budd Higher Intelligence Agency, The Irresistible Force, Global Communication, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Japan, Jedi Knights, Sonic Youth, Lenoard Cohen, Fleetwood Mac, Kraftwerk, Kruder& Dorfmeister, Janes Addiction, Manu Chao, Mercury Rev, Miles Davis, Mogwai, My Bloody Valantine, Pavement, Pentatonik, The Psychadelic Furs, Radioactive Man, Radiohead, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ride, Robert Fripp, Robot Man, The Sabres of Paradise, Slam, Sonic Boom, Spectrum, Speedy J, Spiritualized, The Doors (especially 'Strange Days'), The Stanley Brothers, Stephan Micus, Steve Reich, The Stone Roses, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Sugarcubes, Syd Barrett, Technasia, The The, Theorem, Tortoise, Tosca, Toto, Vapourspace, Vincent Gallo, ...
- Books I have given my friends
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Italo Calvino, Neil Gaiman, Umberto Eco, Philip K. Dick (read v v slowly), 'Cyberia' Douglas Rushkoff, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Snr Shakespeare, Asterix, Kaz (comix), Ernest Lehman, M. R. James victorian ghost stories, Faery tales, Carlos Castaneda, R J Stewart, myths and magic, Lewis Carrol, Basho / Japanese Haiku, Brothers Grimm, Roald Dahl, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, JD Salinger: 9 Stories, Haruki Murikami: The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, E Annie Proulx: Shipping News, Charles Bukowski: Factotum --- books on illustration / art, film, photography and animation. I love screenplays of my favorite films (recently, Charlie Kaufman)
- My death row meal
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something with advocado..?
- The best thing I own
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my collection of coloured pencils...my new mountain bike! ...
