Three Wise Monkeys Sign Martyn Pick

Distinctive London-based animation director, Martyn Pick, has joined the Three Wise Monkeys family for commercial representation. Martyn’s unique style integrates live action and CGI into beautiful fluid or dynamically edgy painterly hand animation.  This innovative mix using digital tools to directly manipulate live action creates a traditional looking eclectic range of art-based styles and sits perfectly within the diversity of our animation offering. A modern artist in the truest sense, Martyn’s animation style transports the audience into a living canvas. Martyn contrasts his firmly artistic approach with a character-based approach using computer animation that integrates his painterly feel into dimensional characters and environments showcasing artistic sensitivities across the body of his work and practice.

Martyn’s career highlights include animation director on the acclaimed documentary/animation hybrid film THE AGE OF STUPID described by the Telegraph as 'bold, supremely provocative & hugely important’. Here he blended live action, CGI and Matte paintings. Commissioned to create the Olympics promotional film LONDON, the film showcases Martyn’s boundary pushing technique of painting directly onto live action. The results are intense and textural visual story-telling that led to further commissions for the BBC and US commercial clients.

Pick’s body of work is wide ranging with his expressionistic art represented across mediums in print for graphic novels, exhibitions, animated series and film. His foundations in Fine Art and Film at Central Saint Martins demonstrate experimental freedom with a distinctive central tone and voice.

Carl Grinter says, ‘Martyn’s an artist who brings his beautiful and fluid, textural practice and promotional experience to the commercial advertising and marketing realm. His feature and commercials work in 2D, 3D, live action stands out as an unique and powerful medium to create affective, emotional attachments’.

An experienced animator and director, Martyn has directed commercials for both the UK & US markets, promos, idents, short films and his feature Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie.