DOMINIC GRIFFITHS

3 Stream Farm Cottages, Netherfield road, Battle, East Sussex. TN33 0HH griffiths.dominic@gmail.com 07742 522392

Date of birth: 09 04 1964 Male Married No children

I have been animating for 35 years now, starting as a traditional drawn animator, moving into directing and then around 2000 jumping into 3d cgi, as a character animator. I love what I do and continue to enjoy the collaborative process and the technical changes. At times I also work with the directors on the previs and I love that chance to work with the story and construction of whatever job it is, albeit often a 30 sec commercial. I work as a professional mentor for a student each year at Central St Martins, offering advice throughout their time on the course as and when they want it, and a professional view of the work they produce. Recently I’ve branched out into VR/AR, Film VFX and Previs. All differently enjoyable and challenging. With VR/AR I’ve worked with original art by Fine artists at Acute Art and series work and app development at Nexus; I did a variety of Vfx work for Bluebolt on ‘The Northman’ and also for The Farm; My first Previs work was at Nviz on a couple of Netflix series. Recently I’ve learnt Blender and liked it a lot.

Professional History

2003 – present
3D CG Animator (Blender Maya 3DS Max XSI) – BLUBOLT;NVIZ;THE FARM;PASSION:NEXUS:THE MILL:NOTTOSCALE:PICASSO:ACUTEART:ENGLISH & POCKETT
short films:title sequences:commercials:vr/ar;vfx;previs

2000 – 2003
3D CG Animator (Softimage) - STUDIO AKA
Jojo and the Stars (winner – BAFTA best animated short film 2004):Pica Towers:(short films):commercials:BBC2 station idents

1999 – present
Teacher/Mentor – London Animation School/Central St Martins

1997 – 2000
Animator/Director - STUDIO AKA

1994 - 1997
Animator/ Director - TANDEM FILMS
Flatworld (short film):commercials

1993 - 1994
Animator - SPEEDY FILMS:EALING ANIMATION:PICASSO PICTURES
commercials::tv series

1992 - 1993
Year off developing own work; writing and animating

1990 - 1992
Assistant 2D Animator/ 2D Animator - GRAND SLAMM
Daumier’s law (short film):Peter Rabbit and friends (tv series):commercials

1989 - 1990
Travelling around Australia & South-East Asia

1988 - 1989
2D Animator - BOB GODFREY FILMS

1987 - 1988
Travelling around USA

1987
Assistant 2D Animator - IAN IMES FILMS

Educational History

1984 –1987 BA degree in Animation – WEST SURREY SCHOOL of ART and DESIGN
1983 –1984 Art foundation course – EPSOM SCHOOL of ART

Skills

Blender:Maya:3ds Max:XSI:Flash:After Effects:Photoshop:Illustrator:Premiere

Interests

All the good, usual things, none of the odd ones