Mark Mason
Mark has been an animation industry professional since 1985. He is a 2D Animator, Directing Animator, Animation Series Director, Storyboard & Layout Artist, Character Designer, Illustrator, Script Editor and Visual Gag Writer. His specialist areas include, Children’s TV Series & Specials, TV Commercials, Title Sequences and Character Licensing. Mark has been lecturing in animation since 2014.
Mark Mason teaches animation, visual narrative and film-making techniques and methods across BA and MA Animation courses at all levels at the University.
Mark is a Traditional Hand-Drawn and Digital 2D Animator, Animation Director, Storyboard & Layout Artist, Character Designer and Illustrator, entering the British Animation Industry in 1985 after studying Typographic Design and Illustration. He is a Lecturer for the BA and MA Animation courses. As company director of Mark Mason Animation Ltd between 1995 and 2016, his work in Children's TV Series include:
- The Raggy Dolls
- The Forgotten Toys
- William’s Wish Wellingtons
- Angelmouse
- Bounty Hamster
- Snailsbury Tails
- Philbert the Frog
- Muffin the Mule
Additionally, for the past four years (2022–2025), Mark has designed, animated, and produced the title sequence, commercial bumpers, and replay wipes for Crufts, the Kennel Club’s international dog show, broadcast on Channel 4.
Mark is currently a PhD candidate, winning awards for best student research image (2023), and at the Annual PGR Conferences, best presentation (2nd) 2023 and best academic poster (1st) 2024. Mark has also submitted a book chapter to The Routledge Companion to Animation Studies and a visual chapter contribution to Bloomsbury’s forthcoming Handbook of Drawing as Research.
He has also produced animation for many TV commercial clients including:
- Morrisons
- Park
- British Gas
- The York Dungeons,
- Chessington Theme Park
- Marks & Spencer
- Privilege Insurance
- Payingtoomuch
- Chill Factore
Mark was a Key Animator for the Christmas specials ‘The Forgotten Toys’, ‘Second Star to the Left’, ‘So Many Santas’ and the Children’s BAFTA awarded ‘The First Snow of Winter’. In 2012 Mark successfully pitched the animated the pre-school sign language concept ‘Tiny Tumble’ to the BBC. Illustration commissions have included campaigns for Shop Direct/Woolworths, numerous submissions for BBC children's magazines Playbox, Playbox Puzzles and Kathy Lette’s book, ‘Girl Talk – In the Pink’.
- MA (Distinction) Animation, University of Central Lancashire, 2016
- Toon Boom Harmony 17 Premium Professional Certification
- Musical Timing Methods in Golden Era Hollywood Cartoons
- Comic Visual Narrative Cinematography
- Japanese Woodblock Prints and Zen Brush Paintings
- Mark continues to produce animation and illustration work around his lecturing commitments.
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- Beatroots. An investigation, through practice-based methods, of the development and use of beat-based musical timing methods in Golden Era Hollywood Animated Short Films and its place in current animation production.
Telephone:+44 (0) 1772 89 3365
Email: Email:Mark Mason
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