Dan

Managing Senior Creative

As our Managing Senior Creative, Dan oversees the creative team. He directs many of our animated and illustrated products, taking scripts and transforming them into storymaps, then working with illustrators and animators to refine the details.  

The only artist in a family of scientists, Dan developed an early interest in filmmaking and started making stop motion animations as a hobby in school. He went on to do a Film Studies and Literature degree in Warwick. His early career was focussed on stop motion, including making a rap music video and working as an art assistant on Fantastic Mr. Fox.  

In 2011, Dan joined Cognitive in its first days. He enjoys the constant new subject matter. His favourite animation is the intricate and ambitious Ken Robinson piece, A Future For Us All—an accumulation of so much work.  

Dan makes a comic in his spare time, plays guitar, and hunts for fossils with his son Rowan.