Profile
About Me
 Born
in Norwich, England on October 21st 1982. An animator
in both 2D and 3D disciplines.
Primarily an effects animator who also does technical
work such as rigging, shader and texturing using mainly
Newtek
LightWave and Maya for 3D work and an animation desk,
camera, scanner and Toon Boom Studio / USAnimator for
2D.
Still finding and refining his style, always learning,
always adapting, trying to find himself in his animation
and artwork. Stephen has been drawing since he can remember.
It has always been one of his strengths and now very
much his life. He has been animating for over nine years.
Studied BA (Hons) Creative Visualisation at
the University
of Teesside where he graduated in 2005 and
has been working freelance since. Over the coming year
is hoping to move down to London full time. Click for
his Resumé.
He has a Blog
where you preview many of his current projects. Its
a good place to find out what he's been getting up to.
Hobbies, most of which are art related such as animatronics,
design and Imagineering, a marriage of imagination and
engineering occupy his spare time, along with being
an avid photographer which is heavily used during research.
He spends a lot of time listening and watching Japanese
anime, music and films and has spent the past few years
learning Japanese and is hoping to visit in the near
future.
Home Studio
 The
home studio is small but well setup which has just been
just recently refurbished. It houses his main 3D Workstation
and a small renderfarm for LightWave and Maya and a
Video Editing Workstation running Avid
Liquid.
Main Workstation is a AMD
Dual 2.66Ghz Athlon system with 2Gb ram connected to
a 2Tb storage raid unit for frame storage. I primarily
use Hewlett
Packard (HP) and iiyama LCD monitors and
Alesis
M1 520 Reference Monitors for audio playback.
The Renderfarm is built on Hewlett
Packard (HP) Ultra Compacts to reduce space
and power consumption. All spec'd at Intel
P4 2.66Ghz with 1Gb ram connected to a Hewlett
Packard (HP) PIII server for data centralisation
for the farm.
When animataing he uses a mixture of Wacom
Graphics Tablets and Chroma
Colour 12 Field animation desk.
.. oh and not forgetting a huge whiteboard... The best
toy an artist can have! Its where he solves problems
and generally doodles in his spare time.
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