Vida is an award-winning 2D Animation Director and Illustrator working with bold, painterly textures and a strong sense of the traditional craft of drawn animation. I like to combine digital with analogue paper techniques to make fashion illustrations and expressive drawings move in a way that feels authentic. I love to create stories from quiet observed moments of intimacy, tiny fragments that surprise by revealing more than they initially suggest. In 2012 I won a British Animation Award for Best 2D Commercial for the first commercial I directed. That same commercial also won a Silver Shark at Kinsale, Bronze at the London International Awards, several Cannes Lions nominations and I was a finalist for the SHOTS Young Director Award. My illustrations have featured in outdoor billboard campaigns across California, online and print editorials for How To Spend It Italy and Superior Interior. Clients include: How To Spend It, Superior Interior Italy, Graff Diamonds, Disney UK, Prada, HD Buttercup, Milka, Tempo Tissues, Digital Arts Magazine. Golden Wolf, Passion Pictures, The Mill, Tandem Films, Th1ng, JWT, Publicis