Biography, Fashion Disasters, and Bad Haircuts

  1. View With my first boss and mentor the late John Halas. 1989
  2. View On the lake at Annecy in about 1991.
  3. View On set shooting some stop motion. 1993
  4. View Working on Beastly Behaviour. 1994
  5. View Editing..or something. 1998
  6. View Cel painting....just before everything went digital. 1996
  7. View With David Sproxton and pals. 2007
  8. View With HRH Prince Edward. 2007

ANDY WYATT - AN ANIMATED LIFE

Andy learned his craft as an assistant animator to the late John Halas. He became a regular freelance animator in London working on all kinds of animation projects, including Duck Tales - The Movie for Disney, Teenage Ninja Turtles and various commercials. He joined Honeycomb Animation in 1991 where he became Director of Animation. Whilst at Honeycomb he wrote and directed the award winning cult series Beastly Behaviour, which was shown on Channel 4, nominated for best TV series at the prestigious Annecy animation festival and can still be seen on TV and mobile phones. He also co-directed Wolves Witches and Giants featuring the vocal talents of Spike Milligan and was also involved in the development and design of Grizzly Tales foe Gruesome Kids which picked up several international awards including a British Animation Award and a BAFTA.

It was around this time that Andy relocated from London to the West Country, at first with Honeycomb, and then in 1997 he founded his studio Fictitious Egg to produce animation for the then exciting new medium, the internet. The studio was the first UK company to have a series on the web in 1998, which was fantastic, except at the time no-one had broadband and no-one watched it! After a number of online animation shows for clients such as Granada and Edison Interactive, the inevitable dotcom crash steered Fictitious Egg back into producing animation for television.

In 2000, Andy directed the animation for Animal School for CBBC which was one of the BBC’s first true ‘cross platform’ animated series which screened on both television and the internet. The studio gained a reputation for comedy and in 2002 animated all the sketches for the then new BBC3’s current affairs comedy show The State We’re In and then in 2004 Popskool for Top of the Pops Saturday, and in the same year Andy directed all the animation sequences in the BAFTA award winning The Giblet Boys.

In 2005, Andy joined Aardman Animations as series director for Planet Sketch, a CGI animated sketch show for CITV, and then in 2007 directed the animation for The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury which won a BAFTA for best drama in 2008

Andy now works as a consultant, currently working on a stop motion sketch show for CBBC and writing a book on digital animation for Quarto press.

He is also head of Animation at University College Falmouth, a post he has held since setting up the course in 2007

Andy Wyatt

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