About:
Daniel Denton is a London based Video Designer and Animator and associate of video design collective Mesmer.
A graduate of the University for the Creative Arts his background was originally in Illustration and Experimental film. He has gone on to animate and design visuals for a range of different media from Theatre, Opera, Music, Fashion, Web and Broadcast.
Production Credit
Video Design:
Flashdance" The Musical
To Love Somebody Melancholy - National Tour - 2017
0Ready Or Not -The Arcola Theatre and national tour 2017,
Peter Pan - Exeter Northcott Theatre - 2016
Bumblescratch - Adelphi Theatre - 2016
Biedermann and the Arsonists - Sadler’s Wells - 2015
Theatre/Music/Performance/Installation:
Prism - Hampstead Theatre (2017) - Animator
The Railway Children - Exeter Northcott Theatre (2017) - Associate Video Designer/Lead Animator
40 Years On - Chichester Festival Theatre (2017) - Animator
Don Juan In Soho (2017) Animator
Carmen (2017) - Illustrator/Animator
The Owl and The Pussycat (2017) - Animator
Toyota CHR (2017) - Animator
Secret Cinema (2017) Moulin Rouge - Animator
Don Juan in Soho (2017) Wyndams Theatre - Animator
Tamberlaine (2017) Arcola Theatre - Animator
Big The Musical (2016) Plymouth Theatre Royal - Lead Animator
Madam Butterfly (2016) Glyndebourne - Editor
Exposure (2016) St James Theatre - Editor
Andrea Chénier (2016) - Opera North - Illustrator
Pila Pina (2016) - MAK Iceland - Illustrator
Only the Brave (2016) Welsh Millennium Centre - Lead Animator
Mickey and The Magicians (2016) Disney Land Paris - Lead Animator
The Government Inspector (2016) - Birmingham Mac and Tour - Animator
Pure Imagination (2015) - Animator
Blur at Hyde Park (2015) - Animator
Amazon Imaging Studio Launch (2015) - Amazon Imaging Studio - Animator
Notorious (2015) Göteborg Opera - Animato/Editor
5th and 57th (2015) Old Selfridges Hotel - Lead Animator Crossing (2015) Citi Shubert Theatre USA - Illustrator/Animator
Love’s Sacrifice (2015) The Royal Shakespeare Company - Illustrator/Animator
Love, Loss and Chianti (2015) Chichester Festival Theatre - Illustrator/Animator
Elf: The Musical (2014) Theatre Royal Plymouth - Animator/Illustrator
Khamsah - National Youth Theatre/ King Abdelaziz Centre for World Culture - Saudi Arabia (2014) Animator/Visual designer
Home - Brolly Productions (2014) - Research and Development/Video Editor
Broadcast Storybox - The Science Museum, London (2014) Illustrator/Animator
Amadeus – Chichester Festival Theatre (2014) – Illustrator
London Rocks – Busch Gardens USA (2014) – Animator Compositor
Bombay Bicycle Club World Tour (2014) – Animator
Moon Tiger – Theatre Royal Bath (2014) – Animator/Photo editor
Neige – Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (2013) – Animator/Editor
American Psycho – Almeida Theatre - Illustrator/Animator (2013)
The Feeling Of Going - Skanes Dansteater – Illustrator/Animator (2013)
American Lulu - The Opera Group – Illustrator/Animator (2013) Mesmer
Manchester Sounds: The Massacre - Library Theatre Company – Animator (2013)
Calvert Journal Launch - Calver22 - London - Editor - Mesmer Studios (2013)
Aristophanes Now! - Athens, Istanbul, London, - Mesmer Studios (2013) Faust - Mariinsky Theatre - Saint Petersburg (2013) - Animation - Mesmer Studios The Flying Dutchman - Festival Theatre - Edinburgh (2013) - Animation - Mesmer Studios
Music video/Promos:
"Spirit of Talk Talk - Animator - Directed by James Marsh and Lydia Hibbert (2012)
Shifting Peaks and Nasty Rips Vol. 2, Album Sampler - Animator/Director (2013)
Odessa, “Get Right” - Animator/Director - (2013)
World Cup Carnival – Web promo – The Vaults (2014)
Film/Television: “What makes me me? - and other interesting questions” - 2013 - Illustration and animation - Mosiac Films
“I May Be Some Time” – Short Film by Ana Stefaniak – 2014 – Animator/Compositor
“Raveyard” - Web promo - The Vaults (2014-15)
"Wahaca's Festival of the Dead" - Promo -The Vaults - 2016
"Beauty and The Feast" - Promo - The Vaults - 2017
Screening and Exhibitions:
Pop Gallery - Chatham -Video Installation/Screening of Transdigital Vol.2 - 10/10/14
Strange Cargo - Screening of Scanography#2 as part of Cheriton Light Festival - 23/02/13
The Rochester Room - with 51:Zero - Exhibition of video pieces and ‘Scanner Camera’ as well as artist talk/ live demonstration of own experimental digital film techniques.
Jotta: Refractions – Kopperburg ün-establishment – exhibition of Scanography#3 video installation (20/10/12 – 25/10/12)
Stepping Stone Studios – Maidstone Film Festival – Screening of Scanography#2 – 14-20/11/12
51: Zero Voyager – Screenings in Maidstone 19 – 20/10/12 in Medway 16-17-18-19 including talks and live demonstrations of work
Malcfest – Film bus – 08/09/2012 – Screening Film/ Short talk about film Augmented Land (Scanography#1) Fine Art Media degree show 14/06/2012 – 18/06/2012 Showcasing video installation – Scanography#2
Modern Art Oxford – An unfinished world 15/02/2012 Film Augmented Land (Scanography#1) requested for screening as part of the “An Unfinished World” series curated by Connor Kelly
Filmography:
Transdigital Vol. 3 - 2015
Methods and Structures - 2014
Only Geometry Here – Video installation for McLaren Wall to Wall – Montreal - 2014
Transdigital Vol. 2 – 2014
Transdigital Vol. 1 - 2013 Scanography#4.1 - 2013 Homage to 77 States of Decay - 2013
Skin//Sky (Scanography#3) - 2012
Scanography#2 – 2012 Augmented Land (Scanography#1) – 2012
Inner Space – 2011
Journey Anonymous – 2011
Sea Whisperers – Video Installation for Turner Contemporary – 2011