David Hulin

David James Hulin
Born Bristol, England
Residence New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality British
Education Bristol Cathedral Choir School
Occupation Animation Director, Visual Effects Artist
Notable work GEICO Gecko, M&M's, Harry Potter, Walking with,
Awards Emmy, British Television Advertising Craft Award, International Teleproduction Society Monitor Award, London Effects and Animation Award, Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award, International 3D Award, Visual Effects Society, Ottawa Animation Festival
Website http://www.davidhulin.com

David Hulin (born 1975) is a British born Animation Director and VFX Director based in New York, best known for his work with iconic animated characters such as the GEICO Gecko, and his contribution to the Computer Graphics and Visual Effects industry.

Early life

Hulin was born in Bristol, England and studied at Bristol Cathedral Choir School. Choosing to pursue a career in the Arts he took a years Art Foundation at Department of Creative Industries, UWE, Bristol before making the decision to specialize in Animation at University for the Creative Arts which, at that time, was the only BA(hons) degree in Animation available in Europe. During his degree Hulin split his time between Animation and Film and after spending some time at Framestore he was lucky enough to win a rare post grad scholarship opportunity at Saint Martin's School of Art designed to encourage more traditionally trained artists into a then programmer driven industry.

Career

After graduating Saint Martin's School of Art, Hulin joined Framestore's then small CG animation team. Working amongst some of the world's foremost visual effects artists, he gained experience and contributed to many award-winning commercial projects, TV series such as Walking With Beasts, Dinotopia, Arabian Nights and Merlin, as well as film projects such as Harry Potter II and III. With a diverse experience in CG animation, Hulin seized the opportunity to move to New York to help set up Framestore's US operation and build its CG department. It was shortly after, in 2005, that Hulin was called upon to redesign the GEICO Gecko and has remained the animation director ever since.

Since handing over the role of 'Head of the CG department' after 8 years to focus on his career as an Animation Director, Hulin has remained passionately involved in developing animated characters and brand icons. His creative leadership and client relationships have seen successes in numerous groundbreaking animated campaign; Pepsi - chicken, two Fedex Super Bowl spots; Stick and Pigeon; iconic GE spots; Crane, Ellie, Scarecrow, Tree and Mammoth (never aired), nearly 100 GEICO Gecko commercials [1] (along with online and reusable animation), Sour Patch Kids and most recently the well loved M&M's characters. Hulin has also had close involvement in the development of Framestore’s proprietary real-time animation system which is currently being used by major brands.

After his directorial debut with a campaign of documentary-style commercials for the GEICO Gecko in 2006, Hulin has also been involved in creative development of content for such clients as Coors,[2] Samsung, Time Warner, Prudential, Charmin, Breath Right, EA, Corning and M&M's.[3]

Awards

Hulin has won many awards for his work including a Prime time Emmy[4][5] a Visual Effects Society award[6] [7] and the Best Animated character at the Ottawa Animation Festival.[8]

Sources

  1. ↑ Nudd, Tim. "Why Geico's gecko is now a cockney yob".
  2. ↑ "Launch". 2010-10-20.
  3. ↑ "Conveyor".
  4. ↑ "Emmy Awards 2006 Press".
  5. ↑ "Emmy Awards 2006".
  6. ↑ "VES 2006".
  7. ↑ Visual Effects Society Awards 2006
  8. ↑ "The History of the OIAF".

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