Rookie Awards 2019
Started in 2010, this is our biggest annual contest. It's open to young creatives in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3d visualisation. There is simply no better way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online.
Mike Cozens
Animation Supervisor
As an Animation Supervisor, Mike strives to realise the director’s storytelling vision of digital characters and creatures. His team uses a wide variety of techniques to create unique, believable creatures.
Mike spent three years as Lead Animator on multiple sequences on James Cameron’s Avatar, then as a Senior Animator on the first two films in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy before moving into the role of Animation Supervisor on The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Mike’s more recent credits include Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and David Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon.
He has recently finished working as an Animation Supervisor on Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, releasing in February 2019 and is now Weta Digital’s Animation Head of department.