Hi, my name is Julian Laing. I am an animator and visual effects artist and I have over 6 years experience in the computer games industry. I grew up in Scotland and I still live here in Edinburgh although I am very keen to work further afield at some point in the future.

Much of my work has been producing 3D character animations both for in-game animations and also for cinematic cutscenes and I consider this to me my main strength. I have also done some character rigging work using Maya. For a couple of game titles I also branched out into producing visual effects, stuff such as blood or magical effects or explosions for which I produced both the artwork and animated the dynamics of the effect. Almost my entire professional experience has been in the computer games industry but I am keen to try my hand working in the television or film industry at some point in the future.

Initially my background was in traditional hand-drawn animation. I graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor Of Design degree with honours at Duncan Of Jordanstone College in Dundee. I've continued since these days to do some observational life drawings whenever possible and I've recently been planning to produce some traditional animated work again in my own spare time. Hopefully in the near future I will be able post some samples of that here on my webpage.