Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator and creative coder based in London. Her work explores the digital and analogue through experimenting with process and materiality. She enjoys working with scrap and found materials repurposing them to form new identities and narratives differing from their original purpose or intention. The texture of materials is important to her practice, exploring how it evokes memory and time. More recently she has become interested in screen based installation work exploring animation as an expanded practice.
She was awarded as the inaugural winner of the DAZED and Rabanne arts factory 2024 where she displayed her work at Miami Art Basel 2024. She has also displayed work in festivals like the London Short Film Festival, Peckham Digital’s Festival of Creative Computing and been featured in Labocine’s Primary Colours Issue 2025. She recently was selected for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation 2025.
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CV
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Commercial Experience
Elastic TV Freelance
- Working freelance for Elastic TV to create style frames and animation tests for client work
Kinvarra EP
- Creating a series of visualisers for the band Kinvarra’s new EP ‘Darker Greens’
- Combining collage animation, hand drawn animation, AI and print to animate
Ana Projects Freelance (continious)
- Working freelance at Ana Projects studio to help with post production for client work (including clients like EE, Marshall Amps, Cartier, Hilton)
- Compositioning files, preparing assets
Pencil TV Internship [September - December 2024]
- Working alongside Danae Gosset
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Preparing animations for client work (including Crues, Nissan, Google)
- Organized and managed digital assets and project files, improving workflow efficiency
- Used AI tools like Adobe Firefly and Runway to create assets
Ana Projects Internship [August - September 2024]
- Preparing assets for animation library and social media posts
- Organising files, desktop and workflow management
- Assisting shooting animations and experiments for social media & client work
Zora
- Promoting events via the Zora Instagram page
- Documenting art for social media
Rabanne Arts Factory (DAZED X Rabanne)
- Selected as one of the top 6 finalists for Rabanne’s Arts Factory 2024
- Worked on a creative brief exploring digital media art
Night Bus, Collaborative Animation
- Working together with illustrator Hereos 4 A Day and musician Love Ssega to produce an animated short about taking the bus late at night
- Working from illustrations to create animations and designing backgrounds for scenes, animating transitions
Education
October 2020 - May 2024
BA Fine Art with Creative Computing, Central St Martins (First Class Honours)
September 2022 - June 2023
CCI Diploma, Creative Computing Institute
2021
Toon Boom Associate Certification Harmony Premium
September 2019 - May 2020
Fine Art Foundation, Central St Martins
Technical Skills
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Toon Boom Harmony
HTML, CSS, P5.js
Python
Other Skills
Direct Animation
Data Moshing and Data Bending
Stop motion, collage animation
Physical computing with Raspberry Pi/Arduino Exhibitions/Screenings/Residencies
2025
- Trouble Shooting Screening
- Arebyte Hotel Generation 2025
- Labocine 2025 Primary Colours Issue
- London Short Film Festival 2025
- Vertical Hold Exhibition, Punch Gallery
2024
- Art Basel Miami 2024
- DREAM SEQUENCE: AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB at SET Social Peckham
- Peckham Digital Film Screening, Festival Of Creative Computing 2024
- DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory
- CSM Degree Shows 2024
- OPENing Exhibition, RE-PRISE
- Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 9 (@streetsoundsystem)
2023
- CSM Open Studios
- Cinema CSM Film Festival
2022
- The Malarkey Film Festival, GAP THE MIND
- The Darkroon Film Festival
- The INDIs Film Festival
- SwingLDN Magazine Spring Edition
2021
- Industry Oxford Virtual Exhibition, Brick-A-Brack
- Studio Against The Machine, Avalon Cafe
2020
- Central St Martins Foundation Graduate Show
- Green Spaces, Central St Martins, LUX Show
Publications
Its Nice That:
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/lucy-ellis-animation-discover-200225
DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory/Art Basel Miami 2024:
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/62499/1/paco-rabanne-arts-factory-finalists-artists
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/65106/1/meet-lucy-ellis-the-winner-of-rabanne-arts-factory-2024
https://www.happi.com/breaking-news/experimental-animator-lucy-ellis-named-winner-of-rabanne-arts-factory-powered-by-dazed/
https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/artists-to-know-art-basel-miami-2024
DAZED 100:
https://www.dazeddigital.com/dazed100#65299-lucy-ellis
LUX, Green Spaces:
https://lux.org.uk/event/green-space/
Awards
Inaugural winner of DAZED X Rabanne Arts Factory 2024