James Cunliffe

Case Studies

From writing, producing, and directing to on-location filming and then post-production.

James has over a decades worth of experience in content creation and digital media. Check out the case studies or watch one of the showreels below.

Motion Tracking | Animation Technician

Animation Technician

James started his career as a Motion Tracker/ Animation Technician at a world leading facial animation studio within the gaming industry. The company was eventually bought by Epic Games and their software would go on to become the metahuman creator. Although he played a small role within a gigantic pipeline, James would convert the performances of high profile actors such as Mark Hamill, Liam Cunningham and Peter Capaldi into tracking data, ready for use on their CG character rigs.

Animation Showreel

Animation Showreel

James was inspired by the many talanted artists within the studio and began taking an interest in animation and motion design. He would go on to work with a number of award winning agencies within the gaming industry. Gaining a deeper understanding of design principles, story-telling mechanics as well as further developing creative and technical skills within Photoshop, After Effects and Blender.

Video Production Showreel

Video Production Showreel

Throughout his career James has been utilised for his well rounded video production skills. Covering pre-production; ideation, scripting, and story boarding to more producing sentric roles such as handling budgets, booking locations, hiring kit and crew. In production roles James has directed, interviewed, operated cameras, set up lighting and captured on location sound. In post-production he’s structured edits, colour graded, added motion elements and has created/ sourced music and audio.

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