Johnny Kelly

Johnny graduated from The Royal College of Art where he completed an MA in Animation and was awarded the Conran Foundation Award by the Provost, Sir Terence Conran. His graduation short film, Procrastination, has been very well received and won him the Jerwood Moving Image Prize 08 and was selected to be part of the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director Showcase. He was also awarded Best New Director at the 2007 Shark Awards in Kinsale and won the Animator First Boards Award this year.

Born in Dublin where he graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology a degree in graphic design, Johnny worked for a number of years in both Dublin and London in addition to pursuing his illustration work.

Johnny wrote, directed and designed a new short commissioned by Adobe called ‘The Seed’, using a mixture of 2D and stop-frame paper craft, which has been well received on the festival circuit.