Bringing together people from industry to answer questions from the audience about issues anyone working in industry or interested in a career in animation can relate to. Come along armed with questions and put them to our panel of experts from the creative community.
Advances in technology, Brexit, social change, Lockdown – it’s fair to say the last 5 years have brought about changes to our working lives that lead to some very big questions about how the next 5 years will look. Join our panel of experts and ask them your animated questions to get the animated answers about the how the next 5 years will look for the animation industry.
Guests
Thomas Bourne
Thomas is the founder of Greenheart Consulting and is an experienced impact consultant, speaker and advocate who has a passionate belief in the power of business to be a force for good. He believes that every company should prioritise people and planet alongside profit if they are to succeed in the face of the global challenges around us.
Thomas founded Greenheart Consulting, a Certified B Corporation impact agency that helps businesses and investors measure, manage and transform their social and environmental performance.
Thomas is a UK B Corp Ambassador as well as a trustee of the Soil Association.
Tanya Scott
Tanya is an animation art director, creator of Visible in Visuals, illustrator, and aspiring children’s author based in South East London. She has been working in the animation industry since graduating in 2010 and has experience on a wide variety of projects- from TV series to games and commercials.
Tanya is incredibly passionate about increasing diversity within animation- both on and off the screen- and because of this, she has created “Visible in Visuals”- an online platform offering open, honest discussion on diversity and inclusion within our industry. The panels are co-produced with Hodan Abdi and also published as part of the Skwigly Animation magazine podcast.
Jon Rennie
Jon is the Managing Director of Cloth Cat Animation, a full integrated animation and interactive production company specialising in 2D and 3D character animation, mainly for the children’s and preschool markets.
They are the largest animation production company in Wales, working with clients all over the world. Their work can be seen on CBeebies, Disney, Cartoon Network, Netflix, S4C, CCTV, ABC Australia and many more channels worldwide, including the Emmy nominated Luo Bao Bei, Shane the Chef, The Rubbish World of Dave Spud, Olobob Top, Ethel & Ernest, Boj, Grandpa in my Pocket and Disney’s Tales of Friendship with Winnie the Pooh.
