Bill Mather. b 1944. Worked as a graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

 before joining BBC Bristol design department in 1968 where he "discovered" animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 and with producer Colin Thomas developed the series "Animated Conversations

Animated Conversations

Animated Conversations was a series of British shorts by Bill Mather and Colin Thomas and shown on BBC Four.-External links:* * *...

" whereby "natural-unscripted" dialogue was recorded (sometimes secretly) before adding the animated visuals. Mather also supplied "the Digger" animation to "Vision On

Vision On

Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for deaf children. It was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling to replace a monthly series For the Deaf, a programme paced slowly enough for...

"for 4 years and made animated opening title sequences for David Attenborough and many other Bristol T.V. programmes. For two years he shared a studio in Bristol

Bristol

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 with Peter Lord and David Sproxton (Aardman

Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit...

) and later directed "Archie the skeleton-Scotch Video Tape" and Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

's "Limo-Land - Never in Your Wildest Dreams"; both multi-award winning films for Aardman.
In 1981,he joined The Moving Picture Company

Moving Picture Company

The Moving Picture Company is a post production facility creating digital visual effects and computer animation for feature films, commercials, music videos and television...

 in London

London

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 to assist Andrew Berend in setting up the first commercial Motion Control and C.G.I.system in Europe. In 1985, through Limelight films, he directed the Grammy award winning video for Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms". From 1987 for ten years with his own company, he directed live action

Live action

In filmmaking, video production, and other media, the term live action refers to cinematography, videography not produced using animation...

 and S.F.X. commercials worldwide. He left the film industry in 2004. His current work, as a Sculptor, can be seen at http://www.billmather.co.uk