Biography

Daniel Bird started animating and film-making with a super 8 camera at the age of 14. He left the cutting rooms of the British film industry in his early twenties for Prague to seek the surrealist film-maker Jan Svankmajer. Throughout the next four years he worked for him in the Czech Republic as model maker, animator and in editorial.

Over the next decade in Prague he worked as editor and animator on commercial and personal film projects, as well as becoming head of post-production of a TV production company. In 2008 he spent a year working for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam, creating short films for internet release.

Since 2009 he has been working as a freelancer. His film Seed, directed with Ben Richardson, is currently on tour of the festival cicuit, and recently won Best Animated Short at Slamdance 2010. Click here to watch.

He is currently available for freelance work. Email or phone +420 603 895 930

Recently completed:

Greenpeace's 2010 Earth Day film. Many thanks to all involved.

Watch the Youtube release, read the making-of or watch a high-quality version with credits list on my site.

View on-set stills here