About

Kim Aldis is a former computer animator and special effects artist who now spends his time taking photographs in and around South Devon.

He studied photography at the London College of Printing for 3 years, leaving in 1978 to work as assistant director to leading pop promo directors Gabrin and Mills, making promos for, amongst others, Madness, Ian Dury, Alvin Stardust, The Selector, Tenpole Tudor.

After a spell as a freelance photographer, mostly for the music business he moved into the then fledgling area of 3D computer animation, becoming Head of Animation at pioneering and highly influential computer animation company Digital Pictures in 1985, working on commercials and movies and helping to bring the company’s custom digital animation software to market.

In 1993 Kim founded The Aldis Animation Company, working with most of the major TV companies, leading advertising agencies and design companies in the UK and abroad producing animated graphics for commercials, TV titles, station idents and branding. The Aldis Animation Company, in it’s day, was the largest fully independent CGI facility in the UK.

He sold The Aldis Animation Company in 2001 to spend time freelancing as a CGI animator, technical director and consultant. His services have been in much demand around the world and he has worked and is well known in the UK, the USA, Canada, India, the Middle and Far East and Europe.

He co-founded CG Soup in 2005 with leading US CGI artist Brad Gabe. CG Soup provided technical consultancy and training services to the movie industry.

Kim retired from CGI work in 2007 and moved out of London. He now spends his time in the UK’s South Devon taking photographs of the people and landscape, raising vegetables and racing performance dinghies.

Gallery

Filmography

• The Golden Compass
• Baron Munchausen (dir. Terry Gilliam)
• The Brothers Grimm (dir. Terry Gilliam)
• Pinocchio (dir. Roberto Begnigni)
• Breakfast On Pluto (dir. Neil Jordan)

Clients

• BBC
• ITV
• Channel 4
• LWT
• JWT
• Young and Rubicam (UK)
• Young and Rubicam (Istanbul)
• Lambie-Nairne
• Psygnosis
• Channel 5
• The Cartoon Network
• Passion Pictures
• Glassworks
• Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (UK)
• Lola Post
• Tangerine (New York)
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Omation Studios (USA)
• Screenscene (Dublin)
• Fluid Pictures
• Rai (Italy)
• RTE (Dublin)
• EMP
• BHS
• Wizja TV (Poland)
• etc