Brendan Body
  Senior Animator
 
 

Born: 1st September 1978

March 2007 – Present at Double Negative

   'Hellboy 2: The Golden Army' (film), involved in pre-production tests and pre-vis, continuing through to full shot production.

Feb 2007 – March 2007 at Framestore-CFC
   'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' (film), The sole animator on the Howler character in this feature. More...

Oct 2005 – Oct 2006 at Animal Logic
   'Happy Feet'
(film), a lead animator on the main character, Mumble.
More...

Sept 2000 – Aug 2005 at Framestore-CFC
   'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' (film), animated the Grindylows in the film's underwater sequence. More...
  
   'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (film), animated squirrels in the film's 'nut room' sequence. More...
 
   'Carlotte's Web',
worked on a sequence of shots with a rat character in a pitch for this feature. See showreel...
  
   'Dragons' World: A Fantasy Made Real' (tv), animated dragons and a Tyrannosaurus. More...  View trailer here...
  
   'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' (film), animated Buckbeak the hippogriff. Involved pre-production tests, continuing through to shot production.
More...
    
   Tesco 'Carrie says her bit'
(commercial), animated Carrie, a talking shopping trolley.

   Johnnie Walker 'fish' (commercial), animated the realistic swimming humans. More...
  
   Audi 'drink like a fish' (commercial), animated the John Dory fish.
More... View advertisement...

   'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' (Film), animated the pixies, basilisk, and 'Fawkes' the phoenix. More...

   'Dinotopia' (tv miniseries), animated a variety of creatures and the Messenger Bird character.
More...   View clip...

Education
   Duncan of Jordanstone College 1996-2000, where I obtained a 2.1 B.Des(hons) Degree in Animation & Electronic Media.

Software
   Maya, Softimage XSI, Shake, Photoshop and Premier.

Miscellaneous
   Entered 10secondclub.net's online animation competition for March 2006, I came second.

References available on request