It’s Nice That : Article : Daniel Britt

Still from a personal project – a stop motion animation where the frames were laser cut from wood
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Still from a personal project – a stop motion animation where the frames were laser cut from wood
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Still from a Lip Sync project, The Colouring based on a children’s colouring book, with audio from The Shining. – Project with Joe Pelling
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Still from a collaborative film project Bad God – Illustrations by Lacyn Clarke and Tom McCaughin.
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Still from a collaborative film project Bad God – Illustrations by Lacyn Clarke and Tom McCaughin.
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Still from a project with the London Sinfonietta for their 40th anniversary – with Andy Baker and Azusa Nakagawa
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Still from a project with the London Sinfonietta for their 40th anniversary – with Andy Baker and Azusa Nakagawa
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Still from a title sequence commissioned by Vice UK, for a television pilot called Vice World
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Stills from The Lost Coin – Graduation Film created with Joe Pelling
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Stills from The Lost Coin – Graduation Film created with Joe Pelling
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Stills from The Lost Coin – Graduation Film created with Joe Pelling
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Stills from The Lost Coin – Graduation Film created with Joe Pelling
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Stills from The Lost Coin – Graduation Film created with Joe Pelling
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Daniel Britt

Posted by Alex 3 June 2009

Daniel Britt is an animator, graduating from Kingston University on the Illustration and Animation BA. He’s currently finishing his graduation film, ‘The Lost Coin’ , which he’s spent the last 4 months working on with friend Joe Pelling. His work ticks both the ‘good idea’ and ‘execution’ box which is a bit of a rarity and why we’ve decided to let you know a little more about him…

Daniel is currently getting ready for his degree show Fresh Meat which is up at Shoreditch Town Hall from June 17 -21. When he’s not animating he helps edit a zine called ‘This Is It’ and play the vocoder and guitar in a band called Sheeps

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

I think i wanted to be a paleontologist, probably because of Jurassic Park. I didn’t try animation until I was doing my A-levels, when I decided that was what I wanted to do.

In reflection, how bad was your work in the first year?

Well I hope its improved! They pushed us pretty hard with technical drawing stuff in the first year, and I wasn’t used to it. I eventually found my own way of doing things though.

If you could show a piece of your folio to one person, what piece would you choose, and who would you show it to?

This is a hard one, I guess anyone who would enjoy it, and possibly employ me to do more stuff like it.

If you had your own business, who would you employ and why?

I would employ all my friends, so I would enjoy going to work there, and I would employ the musician/animator Chad Vangaalen, because his films are amazing. Also Bruce Bickford and Vince Collins would be great to work with.