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BIO

I reached London in 2001, spending 5 years getting lunches & learning Flame, enjoying late nights and night shifts. I worked full time & freelance at Clear, Condor, Rushes & MPC, then emerged with my own mini Flame department at Sapient Publicis. Working mainly on the Sky account, it was stable, the perfect backdrop to put down roots. Nearly 10 years later I was one of the first Flame Artists to set up shop on their own. GVFX, now in its 8th year, I have been fully remote since long before Covid.

I’m qualified to masters degree [BSc hons MSc Electronic Imaging] but favour practical application. I like that the TV industry, more by necessity than design, will ask ‘Can u do it?’ without the need for a qualification. This trend, now prevalent in the modern workplace, aligns with my values for getting things done. Conversely, my default setting in downtime is to go slow, take everything apart & figure how it works.

I grew up & was privately educated in Glasgow, a complex & sometimes contradictory background. After uni I was entirely preoccupied with writing music for several years. At the height of Britpop, we signed with Alan McGee at Creation Records, the home of Oasis. After several riotous years on the scene things cooled & when Creation sold to Sony, I had set my heart on becoming a Flame Op in London.

I’m ADHD & ASD which has undoubtedly been the main the driving force behind everything I have done. Occasionally, I need a moment to regroup.

Leaning slightly left in the current climate, but here is not for politics.

TERMS

 OF BUSINESS

There are no hard & fast rules. What we can say upfront will be of enormous benefit later, but then I often forget.

Standard day rate is £700 per day + VAT.

Minimum booking is one day per job, thereafter bookable by the hour @ £70per hour + VAT

Pencils may be cancelled by either side without notice or cancellation fees. Regular communication is key.

Payment terms are 30 days.

Your project will be unavailable after sign off due to the re-allocation of disk space. If you would like the project to be archived, so that you may return at a later date, a separate quote will be provided.

My working day is approximately 9 hours, between 9am & 6pm during the week, after which, overtime is charged. Maximum 12 working hours per day. Overtime is charged @ x 2, which is £140 per hour + VAT. Weekends are often unavailable.

Outside of normal working hours all notifications will be off & messages received during these times will be actioned first thing next day.

I will be generally responsive at all times during work hours. In exceptional circumstances, there may unplanned Out of Office hours, for which the time will typically be made up, or removed from your bill.

This is not is fault free service. There will always be a small risk of non delivery in the event of file corruption, failed disks, power outages & other unforeseeable events. Every effort will be made, however, I cannot be be help responsible for onward delivery schedules. Agreed delivery dates will be void where workloads significantly increase after the start of the job. Please allow for contingency in your delivery schedule.

There have been no significant mishaps in the 240 jobs delivered in the 8 year history of GVFX.