Michelle Salamon

Biography

In my professional capacity as an animation director I have directed two large-scale computer animated film projects for S4C (Channel 4 Wales):
I ran a small production company responsible for organising film projects from fruition to completion including managing budgets and schedules, managing and co-ordinating staff, training teams and individuals to complete projects to deadlines, as well as storyboarding, script editing, direction of actors and design.
I continue to work on freelance animation projects and was represented from 2004-2016 by Voodoodog productions – here I designed characters and animated on their production the Life and Death of Peter Sellers for HBO which was nominated for an Emmy award for best title sequence.

I have overseen several projects with UAL Business and Innovations team: Graduate Professional projects- promotional film for Tezenis, a short film to celebrate the creative partnership with CSM/LVMH, Animated film collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in collaboration with the Technical University of Kenya to highlight the roles of African Carriers in WW1 and WW2