Martyn Pick is a director and artist recognised for a distinctive fusion of live-action and animation. In feature films, commercials, and shorts he applies his fluid, cinematic storytelling working across pure live-action, computer, and hand animation.  He directed the CGI action feature film “Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie&rdquo... Read More

Martyn Pick is a director and artist recognised for a distinctive fusion of live-action and animation. In feature films, commercials, and shorts he applies his fluid, cinematic storytelling working across pure live-action, computer, and hand animation.  He directed the CGI action feature film “Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie” (2010): starring the facial acting of Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee, and John Hurt. Credits also include the 2009 film “The Age of Stupid”, Film London's promotional short for the 2012 Olympics, BBC’s trailers for Euro 2004, Budweiser's 2001 NBA commercial, and the Channel 4 commissioned short “Plaza” (2000). Martyn studied Film and Fine Art at Saint Martin's School of Art and his work has been continually driven by the crossover between painting and cinema. In live-action, he has directed the short “Green” (Film Four) and the supernatural thriller feature “Evil Never Dies”(2014). He was animation consultant on Brett Morgen’s “Chicago 10”. Horror short “Blue Moon” screened at Screamfest LA in Nov '16 and he created animated sequences on the award-winning US feature documentary “Women of 1915”. In CGI he has developed a UK/Chinese animated franchise and was Head of Story and Voice Director on 40 half-hour episodes of the Netflix ITV series “Robozuna". For Penguin he has illustrated the books “Witchcraft” and “Beowulf” bringing his art style to publishing. His live-action “Heckle” debuted at Frightfest in 2020 and was picked up for distribution including on Sky TV. In 2019 the animation sequences he directed in “Coup 53” (dir Taghi Amirani), edited by Walter Murch, were a great use of his approach. “Coup 53” opened to excellent reviews in 2020 and has the rare distinction of a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes! During lockdown, he co-directed 10 half-hour episodes of the Netflix CGI animated kids' superhero series: “Kitti Katz”. With live-action, he has recently directed commercials for “Magic the Gathering” and “League of Legends”. He did the world-building concept art for Charlie Higson’s epic series “Rise of the Witches” (MBC) and in 2022 directed and produced a painterly TVC campaign for Tata Steel (JWT). A graphic novel of his is being developed as a feature film with him as director. He continues to work on projects that build on and refine his visual storytelling.

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AWARDS:

Certificate of Excellence, Cork Film festival for BFI New Directors film: “Signature”

Process Award for Visual Excellence for Channel 4 film: “Plaza”

Gold Plaque, Chicago Film Festival for the “ADM” commercial campaign through DDB Chicago.

Silver Promax award for the BBC Euro idents. 

Nomination for Regional Emmy Award for the animation sequence in “Women of 1915” Read Less