Mike Smith

Mike Smith: BAFTA-nominated director,  designer and animator. Innovator in mixed media techniques that include 2D, 3D, puppetry, cut-out, live action and CG.

Creative Director/Consultant at Colossal, Wild Brain, Vinton Studios/Laika & ReelFX. Designed/Directed hundreds of Commercials, Pop Promos and Idents in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Design, direction, story and development with major motion picture studios including Disney, Paramount, Fox, Warner Bros, Turner, Nickelodeon, Sony, United Artists, EMI Films and Gaumont and with creatives like Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Zack Snyder, Paul McCartney, Curtis Hanson, Gary Winick, Matt Groening, Harvey Weinstein, Henry Selick, and Bill Joyce.

Director/Producer for "1001 Nights", a 23-minute BAFTA-nominated theatrical release, screened with live score by The L.A. Philharmonic.

But does that really give you any sense of what a monster talent he is?