{"id":29,"date":"2012-11-08T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2020-07-15T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:38:26","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/about-me","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3023 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gillbradleydesign.com_4-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gillbradleydesign.com_4-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gillbradleydesign.com_4-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gillbradleydesign.com_4.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>I love making images and telling visual stories and am&nbsp;constantly experimenting&nbsp;with&nbsp;approaches, materials and techniques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My work has many strands. Making portraits gets me under the skin of the subject in many of the same ways getting under the skin of an animation character. Animation design and illustration for me are closely linked complimenting, expanding and providing a subtext to the script. Animation has always been a natural development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Magic of animation found me just before I completed my MA at The Royal College of Art. I graduated with a short film shown at The Best of British Animation Festival; this began a career working in the Animation Industry, Designing and animating &nbsp;Series, Promos and Directing Commercials and Motion graphics .<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\">Clients and Projects include &#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Animation and commercials direction and motion graphics<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;Saachi&amp;Saachi, Scwartzkopf, Channel 4, BBC, Sky Arts<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2571\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Illustration<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;Island Records, Feel Agency, Guardian, Mc Zine<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2552\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Children&#8217;s series<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;Golden Books,&nbsp;Colin McNaughton&#8217;s&nbsp;Preston Pig &nbsp;and Blue Dragon for the BBC for design and Background design<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2569\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Graphic Designer&nbsp;Production Designer<\/span> &#8211; &nbsp;Bafta nominated Short&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/animation\/design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TRANSIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2567\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sequence Director and animator<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/animation\/film_projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1001 Nights<\/a>&nbsp;for Hyperion Studios LA,&nbsp;Pennies From Heaven Sequence for Hibbert Ralph Animation,&nbsp;Rapunzel Episode for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/animation\/film_projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grimm Tales<\/a>&nbsp;Ch5 and ITV<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2563\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Design&nbsp; and&nbsp;Animation&nbsp;on Video Clips<\/span> &#8211; including&nbsp;Kate Bush &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8xk_AkeP5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King of the Mountain<\/a>&#8220;, Tom Jones &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zdb0mfp6TQE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiss<\/a>&#8220;, Grace Jones &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdJiIP3KQfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Love is the Drug<\/a>&#8221; Art of Noise &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hdlFkBbTk-U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Close to the Edit<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2558\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Short films director and animator<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;Give me Some Action 1982,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/animation\/test_shorts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stol 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2576\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Solo shows<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp;BLOW 2011,&nbsp;Shh! Gallery, London<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2610\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillbradleydesign.com\/home\/portobello-portraits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PORTOBELLO PORTRAITS<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; 2012&nbsp;Tabernacle Gallery, London<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365960215925_2562\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I have taught Animation at BA and MA level.&nbsp;Kingston University, London Metropolitan University, Film Akademie BadenWurtenburg, and have been External Assesor on the MA and BA Animation courses at UCLAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love making images and telling visual stories and am&nbsp;constantly experimenting&nbsp;with&nbsp;approaches, materials and techniques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My work has many strands. Making portraits gets me under the skin of the subject in many of the same ways getting under the skin of an animation character. 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