Mike Church – Designer

I have drawn and Painted all my life. Initially I wanted to be a comic book artist. Post College, I found himself Freelancing in the Animation Industry, where I started at the bottom, becoming a Background and Layout Artist, Assistant Animator and Designer on many T.V. commercials, T.V. Series' and feature films. As a result I became very versatile taking on a multitude of artwork styles.

For Seven years I illustrated full-time for a Branding and Packaging Agency in W1. Now Freelancing with an armoury of techniques to produce warm, shiny imagery in a wide variety of styles, for some of the biggest brands, M&S, Fortnum’s, Nestle’, BMW, Asda, Inbev, Diageo and so on.

I have Illustrated 3 published books, Russell Grant’s Art of Astrology, The tale of Ferdinand Frog and The Girl who Believed.

I use Photoshop, Corel Painter, Illustrator and TV Paint, Working with a Mac and Cintiq although I still have occasion to put brush to paper.

I continue to work in animation as well, recently doing Background layout and animation assisting on “Kensuke’s Kingdom”, a feature film out this Winter and Mog's Xmas a short film also on CH4 this Xmas.

In my spare time I record Jazzy Cinematic music as Pablo Pax, and am endlessly herding Cats.