Bianca Howell

Bianca Howell

AnimatorUnited Kingdom
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Bianca Howell

Bianca Howell

AnimatorUnited Kingdom
About me
I have recently graduated from Central Saint Martins after a two-year long Character Animation MA. I have directed and animated two short animated films, and have worked in a team on a third one. I have a solid understanding of the principles of animation and am comfortable working under pressure to meet deadlines. I enjoy operating both autonomously and collaboratively as a professional, and am consistently a strong contributor to any team. I deliver high quality work and take a realistic, logical approach to my work ethic. I excel at traditional animation, specifically TvPaint and hand drawn, although I am flexible when the situation requires it. I am very interested in becoming an animation director. As a film and animation enthusiast, I genuinely love both animating and supervising. My talent for animation and understanding of storytelling techniques have helped guide my fellow animators forwards on their own creative works, and I have proven especially on my last project, "Resilience", to be competent in dividing the work among other members so that it played to their strengths. As a recent graduate and as someone who enjoys experimenting, I'm looking forward to delving into the professional and creative atmosphere of the industry.
Projects
  • Resume/CV
    Resume/CVMy resume/CV as of June 2016.
  • Portfolio
    PortfolioBianca Howell's Portfolio as of October 2015. Focused on Character Design and Life Drawing for animation purposes.
  • ENO pitch - The Indian Queen
    ENO pitch - The Indian QueenThis was my pitch for a short inspired by the English National Opera's staging of "The Indian Queen". I wanted to implement both stop motion as the animation technique, and the combined use of blacklight and blacklight-sensitive paint. Everything therefore would have been dark, and all shapes would have been recognizable through the bright colours emanating from set and puppets. I wanted to concentrate on the relationship between Teculihuatzin, “the queen”, the Spanish conqueror Don Pedro and their daughter - a family portrait if you will, but retold in allegorical form. The queen was to be garbed in a way to resemble a quetzal, to symbolize the Aztecs. The set would have been comprised of a single, imposing tree - standing for the queen's heritage and the Aztec empire - in which she lived with her egg, representing her daughter. Don Pedro would have been portrayed as a gargantuan eagle, said bird being the national animal and emblem of Spain. These are the images I used for my presentation.
  • Fade
    Fade“Fade” was commissioned by the English National Opera, and inspired by Peter Sellar's retelling of “The Indian Queen”, the 1695 opera being written by Henry Purcell. The film is an allegory of the Spaniards coming into the New World and taking everything away from it. Music by Mari Sainio.
  • Resilience
    ResilienceThis is my final project for my MA in character Animation. It recounts the tale of a young Mongolian girl's coming of age as she journeys up a mountain to find closure for something she has lost. I created the film using primarily TVPaint. Music by Kevin Penkin. Compositing by Electra Fotopoulou, After Effects Animation by Ana Smith.
  • The Prosthetic Maker's Son
    The Prosthetic Maker's Son"The Prosthetic Maker's Son" was my first full length animation project. It was made for The Old Operating Theatre Museum in the old pencil-and-paper fashion, later assembled with the aid of Photoshop and Flipbook. Piano performance by Yundu Wang.
Work history
    Animation Director & Animator
     - Full Time
    Was commissioned together with a team from the English National Opera to make a short animation inspired by "The Indian Queen".
    Animation Director & Animator
     - Full Time
    Was commissioned by The Old Operating Theatre to create a short animation inspired by one of the objects in the museum.
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Skills
  • Stop Motion
  • Character Developer
  • Directing
  • Problem Solving
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Tvpaint
  • 2D Animation
  • Ideas Development
Education
    MA Character Animation
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