About TrickFilm
About Us
Meet Andy & Johanna below and see what people have to say about trick film
Andy Symanowski
animator & trickfilm Director
Andy is a Writer, Animator and Director who has worked on many projects in Film and Television since graduating in 1996. He has recently been directing on Shaun the Sheep (series 6) for Aardman. Andy animated on all of Aardman’s puppet animated movies Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Wererabbit, The Pirates in an Adventure with scientists, Shaun the Sheep the Movie and Early Man.
He was Supervising Animator on the T.V. series Wallace & Gromit’s World of Inventions, and has also worked on many commercials, idents and stills photography shoots including Npower, Serta matresses, Wallace & Gromit Christmas Stamps, Change For Life, DFS Sofas and Burger King.
In addition to this Andy has been a Keynote Speaker at Film and Animation Festivals around the world, lecturing on subjects including The Making of Puppet Animated Films and The Impact of Modern Technology on Puppet Animated Films and Television. As well as running animation workshops, he has lectured at Wimbledon college of Art, Savannah University and Film Festival USA and Profile Intermedia Bremen, Germany.
Andy has been involved with developing new talent at Aardman by writing and implementing training courses along with mentoring new crew members.
Johanna Symanowski
learning & development consultant
With over 20 years experience as a Learning & Development Consultant, Johanna enables Trickfilm corporate team build days to be tailored to meet your individual business objectives. With experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors as well as expedition leading and working with the circus, Johanna offers a truly unique approach to leadership, learning & development. We offer bespoke experiences, designed in consultation with you. From a fun, team build day to meeting project management objectives, Trickfilm combine animation expertise with developing your team seamlessly.
Strengths Deployment Inventory can also be added to add an extra dimension to your teams working practices.
What People Say
I just wanted to say, how brilliant Thursday was!
The whole team have said that it was the best Away Day we’ve had and that you guys were fab J
I can’t thank all 3 of you enough for the time and effort that went into it and we can’t wait to see the finished article.
As Head of the English Department at an inner city secondary school in Leicester, I introduced Media Studies GCSE to engage and motivate my year 10 students.
Andrew Symanowski put on workshops for the students using real props from films as well as leading and facilitating the students own work to produce short movies of their own. The students were fascinated, keen to ask questions and worked hard to produce their own projects.
Andrew was friendly and professional and the insight and advice he offered was exceptional. My students relished the opportunities the workshop offered them and gained insight and confidence to pursue their own gaols within their coursework. I would thoroughly recommend him to anyone wanting to engage and involve young people in the art of animation and film making.
A fantastic day. Brilliantly put together and presented.
The end result was fun and the team objectives were all met.
Thanks for something really different & fun.
