Ben Mars: Character Animator

eevil wizard little dog turpie


CG Character Animator with 8 years broadcast character animation experience.

Skills in 3dsMax, Maya, AfterEffects and traditional animation techniques.
Additional skills in team leading, cg modeling, sculpture and propmaking, theatrical design, acting.
Winner Best Children’s Animation, London IMAF 2004, Best Animated Film Dokufest 2005, Best Animated Short Karachi International Film Festival 2005

email benm3d@benmars.com


Downloads:
Showreel 2006 .avi (divX 12MB)
Showreel 2006 .mpg (mpeg1 27MB)
Showreel 2006 .mov (QTime mp4 42MB)

Little Dog Turpie Film - DivX (50MB)
requires DivX Player
Little Dog Turpie Film - mpg1 (69MB)
plays on most machines

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  Relevant Experience / Credits


2007

Animalia - Iloura Digital Pictures / BBC / PBS / Network10 / CBC
Character animation for series.

Acting 1,2 - The National Theatre Drama School, Australia
6 months of weekly evening classes in stage acting techniques.

Acting for Animators - Ed Hooks Masterclass
2 day workshop training in acting techniques for animation.


2006

Animalia - Iloura Digital Pictures / CBBC / PBS / Network10 / CBC
Character animation for series

Acid Sun - Rod Marsh / Film NSW
Additional character animation for short film

T6 Channel Idents - Character Shop / T6 Viasat
Character animation for channel branding sequences

Over The Hedge DVD - Zoo Digital / Dreamworks
Character animation for DVD games

Admiral MultiCar - A Productions / Admiral Insurance
Character animation for commercial


2005

Cellar Dweller / Rownd Arall - Kode Digital / S4C / SE3D
Lead animator / character animation for animated short.
Made as part of the 10 film Hewlett Packard SE3D scheme, chosen for broadcast on S4C.

Elroy the Potato Boy – Ben Lock / SE3D
Character animation for animated short

Friends and Heroes - Character Shop
Character animation for 3 episodes of animated series.

Not So Scary Monsters - Character Shop / Celador
Character animation for TV series pilot.

Vartex CBC - Locomotion Dusseldorf
Character animation / modeling for commercial

Tom Thumb - No Strings Attached/ Blue Fish Cartoons
Character animation / modelling for feature pitch.

Nickelodeon Stings - Atomic Arts / Nickelodeon
Animation / modeling for channel branding sequences.

Kerrang! Red Bull / Samsung Mobile / World Poker – Conkerco / EMAP
Animation / modeling for 3 commercials.


2004

Little Dog Turpie – The Black Laboratory / S4C
Director, character animation and modeling for 5 minute animated short.
Winner Best Children’s Animation, London International Anime and Manga Festival 2004.
Winner Best Animated Film Dokufest 2005.
Winner Best Animated Short Karachi International Film Festival 2005.
Selected for broadcast by S4C.

The Unsteady Chough by Terry Jones – Teddy Hall Productions
Character animation for 3 minute short, shortlisted in BBC Animation Talent 2004

British Animation Awards Opening Sequence 2004 – Character Shop
Character animation for 2 minute short shown at BAA awards ceremony

No Money No Honey – Cheerful Scout
Senior, character animation for fully animated 3 minute corporate short

Night Bus Heroes – Conker co
Character animation and modeling for animated short.

Jetix – Character Shop / Fox Kids
Character animation for 12 second channel idents.

animaTe – Trouble TV / Conker co
Senior, animation and modeling for one 30 second and five 10 second adverts.


2003

Sindy The Fairy Princess – Optical Image / VCI
Senior, character animation, modeling of wizard face for 45 minute animated featurette

Elber Conducts - Conker co
Senior, character animation and modeling for music promo.

Kit Kat Kubes - Conker co
Senior, character and prop animation and modeling for plasma screen street advertisement.

CBBC Title Sequence – Subvision / CBBC
Character animation for animated sequence. 2D animation.

Tweenies Specials – A Productions / Tell Tale / BBC
Character design, animation, modeling of CG dragon in live action sequence.


2002

WARP – Tell Tale
Supervising animator, character and prop animation, modeling for animated pilot episode

Jim Jam - Tell Tale
Character animation and modeling for pilot inserts.

Boo! - A Productions / Tell Tale / Boo TV / BBC
Character animation, modeling for pilot and some episodes.

Tweenies - Tell Tale / BBC
Character design and animation for Mungo the Bug series inserts.


2001

Junk Planet - Pink Elephant / Optical Image
Character animation for pilot episode.

Diddlies - Optical Image / Just
Character animation for pilot episode.

NiNi's Treehouse - Just / GMTV
Character animation for series inserts.


2000

Cubeez - Optical Image / GMTV
Character animation for animated series.


1999

Animation PG Certificate, London Animation Studio, St Martins College



copyright © Ben Mars 2004-8 last updated 06 January 2008