heyo! i'm marl, a cg artist making fun things 🖍️
after four years working for a commercial animation studio in london, i am now a freelance cg generalist with aspirations of becoming a director!
i am open to work in modelling, look dev and compositing (+ any other 'generalisms' you might need)
just say hey!
Projects
- art&graft | facebook cover imageshappy new year! art&graft teamed up with meta to bring a series of festive scenes to life and spice up your facebook avatar cover photos. i was responsible for modelling and texturing 6 of the 20 new 3D environments, and fortunately was assigned some of the funner ones – including a candy cane wonderland!
- feed me light | asian cup yt shortsi loved teaming up with the feed me light crew again to jump on board their collection of projects for qatar’s asian cup 2023 promotion. as well as helping out with the exports for the main mascots reveal film, i handled the editing of five individual social cutdowns for each of the individual characters. i was fortunate to then direct a further five individual social shorts, featuring the mascot characters in a number of bts style films, showing their life in the run-up to the tournament. the
- flickerpix | hop n' zipi was lucky to be brought on board by the flickerpix team to work on the compositing for their 13 episode series of short animations aimed at toddlers, featuring some whacky slap-stick run-ins between a frog, tadpole and mosquito. i worked as part of a 2-man comp team for episodes 2-6, and as a solo comper for episodes 7-13.
- where to walk | visual developmenti was fortunate to be a resident at the open workshop, in viborg denmark. open workshop is a part of filmtalent, and supports both new and experienced talents by providing facilities, housing equipment and financial support for animation and animation-related projects. while in residency, i begun working on the pre-production for my first independent short film, where to walk, inspired by the music of traditional irish music group, cúig. awoken by the call of distant celtic music, an Irish gia
- feed me light | storybotsfeed me light got to work on a number of animated segments as part of larger storybots episodes for netflix. i was lucky to work on a number of different character, costume and prop models early on in production, including the main bot characters and some additional characters like bleep the clown, the hot-tub cow and the noble (sometimes dancing) steed!
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Work history
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CG GeneralistMarl
Belfast, United KingdomFreelance
I have transitioned into freelancing to further build my CG skills and expand project opportunities.
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Professional Creative ResidentThe Open Workshop
- Viborg, DenmarkFull Time
An in-house residency working on my first independent animated short film (Where to Walk - In Development), supported by a professional consultant.
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Skills
- 3D Artist
- 3D Artwork
- 3D Creative
- 3D Generalist
- 3D Modeling
- Compositing
- Directing Animation
- Video Editing
- Motion Graphics
- CGI
Education
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BDes (Hons) AnimationUlster University
- Belfast, United Kingdom
Attained a First Class Hons. & Diploma in Professional Practise