Grant Orchard
Guest Posting 3 May – 7 May 2010
Grant Orchard is an award winning animation director and designer who lives and works in London. Based at the renowned StudioAKA, he has created many eye-catching spots for a wide range of clients. Alongside that he has, in his own words, “had a lot of fun moving a whole bunch of small shapes around.” As his hugely successful Love Sport series testifies.
What have you got planned this week?
I’m at StudioAKA finishing off a job we’re doing with the lovely and talented designer Chris Gray for what must be our first iPhone App, and getting our teeth stuck into a piece we’re doing with GTF for the Science Museum.
What do your parents think you do?
They know exactly what I’m doing. They’ve got their finger on my pulse and everyone else’s. That’s what you get for having two ex-police officers with time on their hands for parents.
Who do you look like?
A touch of Salma Hayek with a long beard.
What’s your favourite sense?
If a cosmic finger came down from the sky and pointed to me requesting all my senses bar one I’d keep sight. And then being particularly cruel requested one of my limbs, I’d give it my left leg from the knee down.
Tell us something people don’t know about you?
I got 99% in my cycling proficiency test. The best I’ve ever done in anything ever. Although I think the average for that test is around 97%, but I still clutch that certificate with pride.
Did your education count?
Yes indeed. Things I don’t know I know! I’ve actually been taught them and they’ve re-surfaced with added information that I’ve collected over the years attached. A bit like that old sweet with pocket lint stuck to it, but its knowledge lint.
What word can’t you spell?
Diaorea. (Diarrhoea is the real spelling. But who says it with that many r’s!)
Tell us a good fact?
I learn incredible facts on Stephen Fry’s QI all the time, but I can never recall any after the programme. I can tell you for a FACT that QI is a very good show.
What’s next?
Just finishing off a film that we’ve been chipping away at for a while now. It’s a three parter and we’re on the final part now, so I’M EXCITED.
What’s your Plan B?
Carpentry.