Joe Evans Lecturer, Animation

I am a Lecturer in Animation with a focus on 2D animation techniques and visual storytelling, teaching across all levels of the Animation course at the School of Digital Arts (SODA).

As an animator and illustrator, I have experience fostering strong creative collaborative relationships with artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, working on diverse projects including music videos, short films, documentaries, and animation for live performance – providing immersive moving image experiences, combining digital and mechanical projection techniques.

I am interested in experimental approaches to animation, utilising Photoshop, After Effects and Toon Boom Harmony to combine drawings, photos, videos, and textures with digital rigged cut-out characters, rotoscoping and motion graphics.

Beginning with my MA project, titled The Animators of Pre-cinema and Their Demons, my current research has continued through my membership with the Magic Lantern Society. This research explores the imagery and methods of pre-cinema animation and makes connections between articulated magic lantern slide shows and new spaces for expanded animation. I presented papers to the Society of Animation Studies titled The Rat Eating Man as a Victorian Meme and The Pre-Cinema Animated Horror Space, and I continue to delve into moving image history, investigating how this might inform innovative practice and repurposing of 19^th Century imagery through digital animation, and exploring the narrative possibilities of animated loops.

I also enjoy drawing pigeons.