The competition has been judged by animation experts across the UK, working in world-class animation studios.
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.
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.
Tom is co-founder of Animade, a leading animation studio on a mission to make the world a bit more characterful.
Highly experienced Animation Supervisor having worked at major VFX studios including Framestore, MPC, ILM and Weta Digital.
Animation director and co-founder @ One6th Animation Studio.
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".
Director of "Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon " which went on to receive both BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.
Animation director for companies including Aardman, Netflix, Google, Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Pokémon and BBC.
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
3D Animator working in studios including Freefolk and Jellyfish Pictures.
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.
2D Animator & Director Based in London, with over ten years of experience within the commercial animation industry.
A London-based Artist & Animation Lead with over 8 years experience across short film, games, television and commercial work.
A filmmaker, illustrator, and animator known for her work at Pixar who teaches creative masterclasses worldwide.
An award-winning freelance Director, Artist and Writer working in Animation and Publishing. Previously Lead Artist on an unannounced show at Netflix Animation.
Animation Director at Blue-Zoo Animation Studio, having worked on projects including "Its Pony" for Nickelodeon and "Supertato" for the BBC.
Stop-motion Animation Director & Producer, founder of the animation studio Tiny Elephants.
Stop Motion Animator on projects including "Chicken Run 2", "Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires", "Early Man" and "Isle of Dogs".
Stop-motion Animator/Director with many credits including "The Clangers", "Scream Street", "Postman Pat", "Wallace & Gromit" and "Shaun the Sheep".
Ruth is an Emmy award-winning producer who has produced shows such as " The Tiger Who Came to Tea" for her company Lupus Films.
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.
Expert film maker, director, animator, illustrator and storyboarder. Tine makes sets, puppets and stage designs, and is also a dancer, teacher and choreographer!
Visual Effects Supervisor Pietro Ponti has 20 years of experience in the VFX industry and joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2021.
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.
HaZ is the co-founder of HaZimation, and is represented as a Director in Hollywood by The Vendetta Group.
Co-owner of Kilogramme Animation.