David Cowles-Brooks is the Creative Director and Founder of Flex Animation.  Graduating in 2008 with a first class honours degree in Computer Animation and Visualisation from Bournemouth University,  David pursued his dream to create animated characters with a high level of articulation and finish.  He has worked for such internationally renowned studios as: Aardman Animations, MPC (The Moving Picture Company), Framestore & Axis Animations.

Why FLEX?

  • Automation of rigs to motion picture standard

  • Flexible pipeline suited to your needs

  • Refined critical and artistic approach

TESTIMONALS

“I have had the pleasure of working with David for nearly a year. In that time he took what was a very rudimentary and bare-bones facial rigging system and built it up into a production standard tool, all the while deploying facial set-ups for a large array of very varied characters. He is a skilled rigger, very diligent, an excellent communicator and always comes to the table with a positive attitude. I sincerely hope we get to work together again and fully recommend him to anyone seeking a rigging TD.”

Sophie Vickers - Lead Character TD at Red Star 3D

“David created a flexible and aesthetic python tool for scientific visualization of our data using Maya fluids. I am extremely happy with the result.”

Andrey Rzhetsky - Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago

“David has constructed our in house facial rigging pipeline solution that has enabled us to deploy 50 characters in our VR Mental Health therapy program, and in under 1 week had all characters with facial performances. Outstanding!!”

Benn Garnish - Head of VR Development at Oxford VR

"David at FLEX has proven to be the best rigging solution we’ve found in recent years. We can be quite demanding, but David has remained fast, and flexible every time"

Kelsi Dean-Buck - Production Manager / Producer at A Large Evil Corporation Animation Studio

"David is not only technically inclined and fantastic at what he does, he's also very fast and efficient. I am very pleased with the work he provided for my project and i am eager to continue working with him"

Senior environment artist at ILM San Francisco

"Can't thank you enough David. Thanks so much for sorting out the rigs for the four characters.
You're a life saver and a gentleman."

Michael Stanish - Founding Partner at Ground Ctrl London

"Not only was he on time and to budget, but the rig was created to a very high standard - he took into account our particular requirements and use-case. We’ll definitely be using David again on future projects."

Richard Wilson - Director at Mobile Pie