portfolio

Welcome to the digital portfolio!

My name is Django, and I work in many different fields - film & TV, theatre, graphic design, game design, tech, events... the list goes on.

I have made work for the screen, stage and page, as well as award-winning participatory projects for non-traditional audiences.

Much of my work is at the intersection of art and technology. I design and develop dynamic, engaging audiovisual content with a focus on bold visual narratives.

There's so much to say and to show, so explore this site to see the kind of work I do (or skip to the Sitemap if you don't like exploring).

Cover art & design for Broken Horses by Kate Beales

Broken Horses is a novel by Kate Beales and published by Linen Press in September 2025.

The artwork is ink on paper, using liquid masking tape for the silhouette of the horse and cleaned up digitally in Photoshop. Check out a timelapse of the cleanup below.

The book is available to purchase here.

I also created a short promotional documentary for the book, exploring the story behind Kate's writing it and the associated history in Southern Patagonia in the 1920s.

Videogame design for Prince of Darkness Jr.

Prince of Darkness Jr. is a box-pushing puzzle game for PC originally created as an entry for the 1Bit Game Jam 2023.

You play as a vampire whose home is being invaded: push crates around rooms to cast shadows, solve puzzles, and avoid sizzling in the light!

I was the lead designer on this game, creating all visual assets, animations, and key art for marketing, as well as producing the music, designing around half of the levels, and additional coding.

The game was made in the Unity Engine, written in C#, and designed using Adobe CC.

We wanted to keep written language to a minimum so that it would be easy to localise (the game is available in 8 languages!), which meant lots of visual communication in level selection and menus.

This was my first time doing puzzle design, which was really exciting - how do you guide a player to figure out solutions to puzzles by themselves? How do you keep it fun in the process?

You can play the demo online or purchase on the Steam store. Watch the trailer below.

Knackered - a short film in Welsh

Knackered is a Welsh-language short comedy which I directed and co-wrote with Glyn Owen.

The film follows Teifi and Beca, two young women in rural Ceredigion who go to ridiculous lengths to hide a dead body on a sheep farm.

Knackered has played at over a dozen festivals so far, including multiple international screenings, several minority-language-specific festivals, and the National Eisteddfod 2025 in Wrexham. It recently won the Best Comedy award at Tir Ddraig Film Festival 2025.

The film features music from producer Stevie J Jones and triple harpist Cerys Hafana.

More info on the film here.

Creative Captions & video design for Blue Apple Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and the Thief of Antiquity

I regularly design video and captions for Blue Apple, a theatre company based in Hampshire which creates shows with learning disabled casts.

For this original production, I was given free rein to design the video for Sherlock's thoughts and deductions. We were able to projection map captions across the whole stage so that specific lines would appear near the characters speaking

The animations were designed in After Effects and the captions were run on Isadora.

For more of my animation and motion design work, click here -- for more of my video design for performance, click here.

Stills from the show:

App design and animation for the English National Opera's Finish This... project

In 2022, the English National Opera were running a schools outreach project called Finish This... which encouraged school classes to create their own operatic pieces using voices, instruments, and found objects.

The ENO wanted a way to present all these creations, and wanted schools to be able to make their own animated music videos if they wished. I was asked to come up with a solution so that schools could create their own custom music videos in response to the audio they had already made.

Using Max MSP for its audio capabilities, I created a standalone app for Windows which would let the user customise animations which would programmatically respond to the music.

See below for some of the animations I created, a peek behind the curtain on what the node-based programming looked like, and my explainer video on how to use the application.

Animated reels for Ant Story by King Louie's Lab

Other work

I've done so much different work that it's hard to fit it all in -- so here are some other things I haven't been able to include otherwise.

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  One For All: a livestreamed gameshow with remote contestants

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  Pinocchia: an award-winning remote performance

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  Facilitation work and arts workshops

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  Tech support for simultaneous interpretation

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  Minority language film screenings

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  Four More Walls: award-winning digital workshops

My background

I've been drawing as long as I can remember, and making films as soon as I could get my hands on a camera.

I got into technical theatre at university, and learned the software for video design and projection mapping during lockdown.

I'm self-taught when it comes to coding and software development.

I now work as a freelance artist, filmmaker, and designer.

Skills

I'm a generalist and have a wide skillset, including:

Education

I have a BA in Philosophy and Linguistics (graduated 2021).

I studied film with the BFI FutureFilm Academy (2017) and was on the BAFTA Mentorship programme (2018).

I studied facilitation with the National Theatre Learning Department.

I have a Level 2 Certificate in British Sign language, and am currently studying Level 3.

While at school I took classes in cartooning and comic book art from HuwJ Matsumura.

My interests

I'm interested in stories: film, theatre, prose, music, journalism, anything with narrative.

I like working on projects which embrace and champion accessibility -- I've worked on projects with Deaf artists, learning-disabled artists, and artists with limb differences.

I'm interested in minority languages -- I've started curating film screenings of films in British/Celtic minority languages.

I love movies -- my favourite filmmaker is Buster Keaton.

I studied analytic philosophy at university, and am particularly interested in metaphysics and logic. I wrote my thesis on time travel.

I play bass guitar and occasionally write songs. I play basketball (badly) and am taking gymnastics/tricking classes.

Contact

You can email me at djangopinter @ gmail.com

(Any videogame related questions please send to django @ pondarea.com)