Jasper Kidd is an award-winning Creative Director and VFX Supervisor with over 20 years of experience across film, episodic, animation, and music videos. Born and raised in New York, he turned down a Physics scholarship to pursue art, studying figurative painting at Pratt Institute and Classical Animation at Sheridan College.
He began his career in London’s vibrant music video scene, collaborating with directors like Chris Cunningham, Woodkid, and Darren Aronofsky on some of the UK’s most iconic projects. At The Mill, he earned accolades including a Cannes Gold Lion for Best VFX, D&AD, Clio, UKMVA, and AICP awards.
In 2017, he co-founded a studio and supervised VFX on Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy, blending miniature puppetry with CG. His credits also include Maniac and The Many Saints of Newark.
In 2021, Jasper joined Crafty Apes as Head of Studio in NYC, and he recently launched the London studio. He oversaw high-profile projects including Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag and Bob Marley: One Love. Other projects include The Holdovers, The Witcher, and Star Trek: Discovery, pairing creative vision with technical precision on every frame.
Gracie Edscer started her career at MPC in London where she worked in various roles in Production, including managing the animation teams on the Harry Potter and Narnia Films and worked her way up to VFX Producer. Gracie has worked in various locations including Vancouver as a VFX Producer as well as Los Angeles where she joined the Business Development team as a Bidding Producer and an Executive Producer helping to secure new projects including The Little Mermaid, The Call of The Wild and The Last Duel. Now based back in the UK Gracie joined Crafty Apes in 2023 as Executive Producer as part of the global Business Development team as well as establishing the client base in the UK.
Matt landed in VFX production after pinging around London in a variety of roles: from editor, to artworker, to copywriter, to.. well you get the idea. After sampling the publishing and gaming industries he found his home in high-end visual effects and never looked back.
Proud to have been a part of many major productions over the years, some personal highlights include: The Lion King, Avengers: Infinity War, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Glass Onion, House of the Dragon and Fast X.
Matt balances out his days spent monitoring schedules and spreadsheets by spending his free time maintaining a webcomic and tabling at cons several times a year.
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