Back in 2017, BAFTA gave me the opportunity to pitch to create the new opening animation for the BAFTA Children's Awards ceremony. The only stipulation was that I needed incorporate the existing poster and brochure illustration created by the super talented Graham Carter. Using this illustration as the world setting, I expanded the view and made some quick examples of how I saw this world coming to life in my head. Luckily, my vision was shared and I won the job!

It was a pleasure working with such a wonderfully textural illustration style and this job, from start to finish, was a joy.

The opening titles were re-used for a few more years and then covid hit. In 2022 BAFTA felt ready to try and bring the live ceremony back into a room, with guests and celebrities and everything! BAFTA kindly asked if I would be interested in creating a new opening sequence for them. Of course I was! With just the key artwork as inspiration, created by BAFTA's in-house graphic designer Abigail Bills, a rough mood board and a tight deadline, the brief was pretty open and it was a challenge to land on something that everyone liked. After a little experimentation I managed to come up with something that I felt didn't suck and it developed and evolved over the course of production into something I'm really proud of.