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Dominic Halford
Designer
Following his longstanding interest in art and animation, Dominic studied Computer Visualisation and Animation at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), Bournemouth University receiving a BA(hons).
In his second year of study, Dominic and two classmates created an animation entitled 'Twisted City' which was shown in the animation festival at SIGGRAPH 2005, regarded as the premier technology conference in the world. Dominic and his colleagues also gave a presentation and published a sketch as part of the main SIGGRAPH conference. Both this and the animation screening were written up in various industry magazines.
Returning to Bournemouth to research an MA in the first cohort of the newly established 'Masters by Project', Dominic continued to develop new ideas and hone his skills, attaining an MA with merit.
During these years, Dominic also advised and worked with students from other areas of the Bournemouth Media School who wished to add visual effects to their projects as well as presenting and teaching on two computer animation summer schools run by the University.
Since leaving Bournemouth, Dominic has worked freelance on visual effects for various projects such as ITV's 'Frankenstein' and most notably the BBC's 'Fight for Life' series which claimed the 2008 TV BAFTA for "Best visual effects" - beating Primeval, Dr Who, and Rome.
Dominic joined UHRecordings to work on video and motion graphics for the forthcoming DVD release 'Between Music and Theatre' and has participated in the innovative production of 'Spectrum Live' where he worked closely with the recording team in order to issue 4 fully packaged and printed CD volumes within 20 minutes of the end of each performance. He now prepares design work for all UHRecordings releases.
Dominic continues to work on design and visual effects projects and is involved with the early stages of several feature length productions.
Featured on:
UHR011: Resonet in laudibus – The Plaxtol Scholars conducted by Marius Carboni
UHR012: The music of John Hopkins - Olivia Robinson & University Ensemble conducted by Robin Browning
UHR013: Images and Impression - Isabel Chaplais and Karis Stretton
UHR014: "…and the birds sang too." - Aylwin String Quartet
UHR016: Sonnets without words - Richard Uttley
UHR017: fanfares, fancies and fugues - UHBrass Ensemble conducted by Robin Browning
UHR019: Noël - The Plaxtol Scholars conducted by Marius CarboniUHR020: Death and Resurrection - Robert CrowleyUHR021: Chasing Boundaries - Peter O'Hagan
UHR022: Edward Cowie: Rutherfords lights - Richard CaseyUHR023: The Next Ocean - Raymond Warren, Seamus Heaney
UHR024: Venite Adoremus - University Chorale & Brass EnsembleUHR025: 15 White Sonatas - Dave Smith
INF001 On sex and suicide – The David Mapp Quintet
INF003: Funkadelic Monks of Justice - Briefcase
INF004: Cardinal Jack - We Shall Start the DanceSpectrum Live