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Slide Three illustrations of Nikolaus holding a clapperboard, pencils, and smiling with a coffee cup Making content is a multi-discipline effort SCROLL DOWN I write, direct, illustrate, and animate.
Ask me how I'd work online with your team to do all those things or just my bit! EMAIL ME

Remote-working team player

Production companies have trusted me to work remote on projects for brands like the BBC and Burberry. I've also delivered entire direct-to-client projects, all online. I also work on-site and on film sets, and bring that discipline to my remote working setup. Ask me how I'd work with you.

So, what do I do?

After understanding your goals for a piece of content, I write a concise script. Then, following your brand guidelines, I design style frames, including characters and scenery. To bring things to life, I direct and animate action and performance. With that done, I edit together the moving images with sound and music. Finally, I render files that I can send to you online. But, just because I can multitask doesn't mean I have to. I love collaborating with teams and am happy doing just one bit of the production pipeline. What works best for your project?

A hand holds a phone showing an Instagram post advertising a Peter Pan audiobook

You have a marketing strategy

Outputs need to stay on message and do things. When making content for your audience, I like to understand and align with your goals. Let me know what they are.

Phone beside a coffee jar. The phone shows a still from the film 'Why Build a Sun on Earth?'. It shows Earthrise from the moon.

I like tricky topics

Science, humanities, and policy papers use specialist language that people outside the discussion won’t know. I enjoy adapting research into eye-level conversations with new audiences. What do you need to share?

A person in a white coat points to an ipad showing a 3D visualization of a human brain

There are lots of ways to use animation

I can design animations and images for e-learning, employee engagement, user interfaces, presentations, displays, exhibitions, lecture slides, theatre scenery, and more! What do you have in mind?

An iPad shows a still from an animation where a mother uses the Brush DJ app with her kids at brush time. A caption reads 'The NHS-approved Brush DJ app plays two minutes of your music while you brush'

Stories about and for people

I design characters, stage them in scenes, and animate their performances. I also direct voice talent for appealing dialogue and narration. What story can we tell together?

Drama and Comedy

I also develop scripted content including original screenplays and series documents for television and film. I've directed story-driven music videos, promos, and shorts. I've also directed full-length stage dramas. I love developing narrative entertainment and would love to talk about my original work or how I could contribute to your project.

And here's some of my work divided by genre

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  • Animation
  • Branded
  • Comedy
  • Documentary
  • Explainer
  • Fiction
  • Immersive
  • Live action
  • Music Video
Still from We See What You're Building — Produced by Matobo — a worker with ear protectors at a machine

We See What You’re Building

Screenshot from Brush DJ children's centre resource. Drawings of mum and kids at brush time with caption 'Lots of parents have found Brush DJ helpful to make brush time fun'.

Brush DJ Children’s Centre Resource

EQUIPOL logo and title 'The Equipol project develops methods to measure equity'

EQUIPOL

Still from The Fanfare music video for artist Tom Hickox — archive footage from a 1940s PSA where a man checks his teeth in a mirror

The Fanfare

Still from animated short film Nom Nom Nom — a mouse chews an electric cable by a fusebox

Nom Nom Nom

Still from animated promo for the Brush DJ app — woman holds her smartphone in front of a bathroom mirror

Brush DJ

Still from 3D animated promo for CARMEN Neuroscience platform — A glowing wireframe image of the human brain

CARMEN Neuroscience

Title shot from animated documentary Why Build a Sun on Earth — 3D rendered scene of earth-rise seen from the moon

Why Build a Sun on Earth?

Still from BBC Information Security e-learning animations — produced by Matobo; an abstract character wears a BBC name-badge

BBC Information Security

Still from animated promo for TouchRight software — The TouchRight logo above icons of houses

TouchRight

Still from sci-fi music video Falling in Love — Hero attaches a node to his forehead

Falling in Love

Still from animated promo for the Higher Education Achievement Report — pixel-art woman uses a desktop computer in her office

The HEAR