The Judges

The competition has been judged by animation experts across the UK, working in world-class animation studios.

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Mandy Wong

Show Creator/Art Director of Millie and Lou. Over the last 14 years Mandy has worked on over 20 different productions across VFX and Animation for both feature films and television.

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Tim Bryans

Managing Director / Co-Founder of Belfast based ALT Animation, working with clients such as Disney, CBBC, Nickelodeon, Channel 4, O2, Children In Need, Discovery Channel.

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Tom Judd

Tom is co-founder of Animade, a leading animation studio on a mission to make the world a bit more characterful.

'Photo of Binal Shah
Binal Shah

Highly experienced Animation Supervisor having worked at major VFX studios including Framestore, MPC, ILM and Weta Digital.

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Baz Sells

Animation director and co-founder @ One6th Animation Studio.

'Photo of Simon Quinn
Simon Quinn

Animation Producer with over 30 years experience in the industry, working on projects including "The Adventures of Paddington", "Isle of Dogs", "Fantastic Mr Fox" & "Frankenweenie".

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Will Becher

Director of "Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon " which went on to receive both BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.

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Simone Giampaolo

Animation director for companies including Aardman, Netflix, Google, Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Pokémon and BBC.

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Emlyn Davies

Founded Bomper Studio in 2014; an indie creative production studio creating work for advertising, branding and broadcast, for brands such as Levi’s, Volvo, Carlsberg & Bose

'Photo of Rory Marchant
Rory Marchant

3D Animator working in studios including Freefolk and Jellyfish Pictures.

'Photo of Tanya Scott
Tanya Scott

10 years experience in animation, currently directing a short film at the NFTS. Tanya's first graphic novel is due to be published next year by Simon and Schuster.

'Photo of Hannah Lau-Walker
Hannah Lau-Walker

2D Animator & Director Based in London, with over ten years of experience within the commercial animation industry.

'Photo of Bianca Iancu
Bianca Iancu

A London-based Artist & Animation Lead with over 8 years experience across short film, games, television and commercial work.

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Nicole Ridgwell

A filmmaker, illustrator, and animator known for her work at Pixar who teaches creative masterclasses worldwide.

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Izzy Burton

An award-winning freelance Director, Artist and Writer working in Animation and Publishing. Previously Lead Artist on an unannounced show at Netflix Animation.

'Photo of Mauricio Maia
Mauricio Maia

Animation Director at Blue-Zoo Animation Studio, having worked on projects including "Its Pony" for Nickelodeon and "Supertato" for the BBC.

'Photo of Linda McCarthy
Linda McCarthy

Stop-motion Animation Director & Producer, founder of the animation studio Tiny Elephants.

'Photo of Laura Tofarides
Laura Tofarides

Stop Motion Animator on projects including "Chicken Run 2", "Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires", "Early Man" and "Isle of Dogs".

'Photo of Jo Chalkley
Jo Chalkley

Stop-motion Animator/Director with many credits including "The Clangers", "Scream Street", "Postman Pat", "Wallace & Gromit" and "Shaun the Sheep".

'Photo of Ruth Fielding
Ruth Fielding

Ruth is an Emmy award-winning producer who has produced shows such as " The Tiger Who Came to Tea" for her company Lupus Films.

'Photo of Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan

Expert 3D animator bringing characters to life, including Marvel's Black Panther, Spider-Man to Rocket and Groot, Star Wars the Clone Wars and so much more.

'Photo of Tine Kluth
Tine Kluth

Expert film maker, director, animator, illustrator and storyboarder. Tine makes sets, puppets and stage designs, and is also a dancer, teacher and choreographer!

'Photo of Pietro Ponti
Pietro Ponti

Visual Effects Supervisor Pietro Ponti has 20 years of experience in the VFX industry and joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2021.

'Photo of Saint John Walker
Saint John Walker

For the last 30 years Saint has been interfacing between the animation, computer games, VFX industries and H.E., with a mission to produce better quality talent out there to feed the UK's creative industries.

'Photo of HaZ Dulull
HaZ Dulull

HaZ is the co-founder of HaZimation, and is represented as a Director in Hollywood by The Vendetta Group.

'Photo of Jon Turner
Jon Turner

Co-owner of Kilogramme Animation.

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