A selection of my animated comedy work, as a director and 2D animator, including series, editorial and short films.
I had the pleasure of bringing to life cartoons by New Yorker cartoonists Will Santino, Hartley Lin and War and Peas.
In this animated Comedy Playground pilot from Channel 4, we visit a version of London much like our own - two young people navigate the world of flat-shares, dating and simple survival with the help of their goblin housemate whose unconventional solutions often create more problems than they solve.
Production company: Blink Industries
Writer & director: Dan Britt
Producer: Hugo Donkin
Animation: Chris Cray, Alina Besanidou, Jac Clinch, Guy Field, Campbell Hartley, Reg Isaac, Charlie Lane-Bush, Bárbara Oliveira, Camille Perrin, Pete Sharp, Weiden Wong
Celebrate 100 years of the BBC with cutout animation!
Chris Cray had the great honour of recasting Captain Pugwash with Rod Stewart and Ted Heath for Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s Adam Curtis-style documentary spoof.
The Love Box in Your Living Room is available to watch now on BBCiPlayer.
Director: Daniel Kleinman
Producers: Bradley Adams, Harry Enfield and Bryan Elsley
Production Company: Balloon Entertainment
Animation director: Chris Cray
Design: Chris Cray, Jennifer Kirkham
Animation: Chris Cray, Ana García Sebastiá
Screened at Brighton International Film Festival, Shouting Ginger explores the mixed feelings about going bald as a redhead. This super short film mixes stand-up comedy with 2D animation.
I wrote and directed these animated comedy sketches.
I directed the pilot episode of this comedy adventure series which follows the bromance between a would be spaceman, Xephos, and a Saxon dwarf with medieval skills, Honeydew. Together they run the Yoglabs, a secret scientific centre, where they plan and execute elaborate pranks.
The series is currently in development, Designed by Andrew Rae and Produced by Jen Coatsworth for Eye Present.
I had the pleasure of working as lead animator on a short film and pilot for Tulipop, an Icelandic lifestyle brand in co-production with Blink Industries. As this has yet to air, I can currently share this trailer.
Full of funny twists and character mishaps, comic timing and pathos were the key to these halloween themed idents for Pop. Directed by Dan Britt at Blinkink.
Sometimes we all need a confidence boost.
I wrote and directed this delightful short film, about a singing woodlouse who finds a way to live her dreams.
Writer and director: Chris Cray
Vocals: Anna Moorey
Orchestral arranger: Jo Ranger
Design: Jennifer Kirkham
Rigging: Ana García Sebastiá
Animation: Kim Alexander
Storyboards: Ravi Swami
Sound design: Mark Smith