Chris works in the animation industry for TV, features and commercials, enjoying various roles from creating, show-running, executive producing, writing, directing and art directing, to storyboarding, character design and background design. He has worked on such animated projects as the Gorillaz, the Amazing World of Gumball, the Mr Bean Animated Series, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Robotboy and Stressed Eric.

Alongside fellow collaborator, Rikke Asbjoern, he was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Show-Runner and Art Director of the hit Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky, about a positively charged anthropomorphic hotdog sausage!

Chris and Rikke have just finished producing We Lost Our Human, a brand new epic interactive special for Netflix, which will air early 2023. It’s about an indoor cat and dog who wake up to find that all humans have disappeared from Earth, including their own! Desperate to find their owner, these two homebound pets venture for the first time into outside world and discover strange mysteries, meet bizarre creatures, and maybe – with the audience’s help – save the universe along the way.

Originally from Yorkshire in the north of England, Chris lives in sunny Los Angeles, and has also worked in London and Paris since graduating with a First Class degree in Graphic Arts and Illustration, from a slightly less sunny Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK.

Chris has a passion for comics and storytelling! He loves creating new worlds and characters that often begin life as silly doodles on post-it notes. He also works extensively in the world of illustration, and his scribbles have adorned a variety of media across advertising, online, apps, books, comics and food packaging.

Chris’ clients include Aardman Animations, Capstone Publishing, Cartoon Network, Disney, Dreamworks, JibJab Media, Macmillan Children’s Books, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Rebellion, Scholastic, Titan Publishing Group and Walker Books.

Rikke was born in the north of Denmark in 1979. From an early age cartoons and drawing have always been a huge passion of hers, so in 1997 she became one of the youngest students to start at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and then after graduating in 1999 she moved to London to start drawing cartoons for a living!

Since then she has worked on many different commercials, music videos, short films and feature films, in various roles such as animator, supervising animator, animation director, storyboard artist and co director. The numerous projects include: Tony the Tiger, Coco Pops, 3 Mobile, MTV, Adidas- Impossible Is Nothing, The Tigger Movie, Jungle Book 2, BBC, Monkey Journey to the West with Jamie Hewlett, and the Gorillaz music videos for Passion Pictures.

In 2007 she started working at Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe in London, writing and directing her own animated TV show ideas, while also helping to develop a number of other projects, including the Cartoon Network show the Amazing World of Gumball.

She moved to Los Angeles in 2012 to work as a feature Story Artist for DreamWorks Animation, and then joined Nickelodeon Animation, where she created and produced her own short, ‘My Friend, Pancake’.

Also at Nickelodeon, alongside fellow collaborator Chris Garbutt, she was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Show-Runner and Voice Director of the hit Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky, about a positively charged anthropomorphic hotdog sausage!

Rikke and Chris have just finished producing We Lost Our Human, a brand new epic interactive special for Netflix, which will air early 2023. It’s about an indoor cat and dog who wake up to find that all humans have disappeared from Earth, including their own! Desperate to find their owner, these two homebound pets venture for the first time into outside world and discover strange mysteries, meet bizarre creatures, and maybe – with the audience’s help – save the universe along the way.

Michael Hunter is the Director of Creative Culture at Jam Filled Studios. Previously working in Production management on shows such as Bubble Guppies, Kingdom Force, The Polos and The Loud House.