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Video editor, sound designer and post production generalist with 15+ years of experience.

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Profile.

I’ve spent 15+ years finding stories in raw footage. At Element Animation, I built viral campaigns for Minecraft. More recently, I’ve edited travel vlogs and brand documentaries, weaving interviews and footage into coherent narratives. I can take hours of material, find what matters, and distil it into something that actually lands. And because my background is in music production and composition, I can score it too.

Based in Scunthorpe, UK. Available for freelance work and permanent roles. Find me on YT Jobs and IMDb.

Career highlights.

  • 393M+ views on YouTube, including Minecraft Enderman Rap (81M), Villager News: WAR! (66M) and nine Minecraft Live productions for Mojang.
  • Assistant Director at Element Animation (5.25M subscribers). In a tiny team building viral Minecraft campaigns for Mojang and Microsoft, I wore every hat: writing, 3D assets, layout, compositing, VFX and managing freelance animators. I was also the studio’s entire audio department.
  • Music that became an anthem. I composed the Minecraft Live 2022 Announcement Trailer (17.7M views), and the track is now the official Minecraft Live anthem, remixed every year since.

How I work.

  • Story first, always. I can do flashy cuts and transitions, but I know the difference between flash and substance.
  • I love the small stuff. The timing of a cut, the music drop, the right sound: that’s what lifts footage from competent to compelling.
  • I edit like an audience member. I’ve spent years working out why some content lands and some doesn’t.
  • I know the whole pipeline. From ideation and storyboarding to on set and post, so I know how early decisions shape what’s possible later.
  • I build my own tools. I automate the slow, repetitive parts of post production, so the time goes on the creative parts.

Key skills.

  • Editing and post: documentary, commercial, brand, music video, explainer, travel, gaming and YouTube long-form; Shorts and Reels; story structure; multi-camera sync; colour grading; compositing 3D render passes; motion graphics; VFX.
  • Sound and music: sound design, foley, voice recording, mixing and mastering, music composition and production for film, advertising and corporate video; 360° VR and live event audio.
  • Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom; Cinema 4D; Ableton Live; Logic Pro; Topaz Video AI; Microsoft Office; Google Workspace.
  • AI and development: Claude Code, ChatGPT, AI transcription (WhisperX), generative AI; Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, ExtendScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Production: scriptwriting, storyboarding, shoot planning, camera operation, photography (Starbucks UK, featured in Dazed Digital), YouTube channel management, thumbnail design, managing freelancers.

Experience.

Managing Director, Freelance Video Editor & Sound Designer, PDE Productions

August 2021 to present · Freelance, UK

My own post production business: editing, sound, music and motion graphics for studios, brands and creators.

Mojang Studios and Element Animation: Composer, Sound Designer & Mix Engineer

  • Minecraft Live 2022 Announcement Trailer (17.7M views): wrote and produced the music, starting from a New Order “Blue Monday” reference and working closely with the animation team. I also handled all the sound effects, mixing and mastering.
  • Happy Ghast Music Video (2.9M, Minecraft Live 2025): two composers had tried it. One version was too quirky, the other too “Disney”. I arranged a version that kept the edge of one and the polish of the other, which saved the agency from hiring another composer a week before the deadline.
  • Sound design, mixing and mastering across Minecraft Live from 2021 to 2025, including The Monster in the Woods (19.6M), Caves & Cliffs: The Musical (13M) and A Warden’s Song (10.4M).
  • The 20 Million Villager Song (7M): built a song people actually want to listen to out of Villager voice samples. It took a lot of revisions and some ingenuity.

YouTube and Twitch creators: Video Editor, Channel Manager & Thumbnail Designer

  • WackyJacky101 (601K subscribers, top 0.03% Twitch streamer): edited gameplay highlight videos with cinematic segments recorded through the game’s replay system.
  • Halifax (top 0.08% Twitch streamer): set up and grew the YouTube channel to 20K subscribers. I created the branding, composed the original intro music, animated the intros in After Effects, and designed the thumbnails and social media assets.
  • CDome (41.5K subscribers): edited daily gameplay videos and designed their thumbnails, regularly beating the channel’s usual view counts. Built a custom Premiere Pro panel that cut down repetitive edit tasks.
  • Friend (1.93M subscribers, formerly TycerX): cut multi-angle footage of 2+ hours down to engaging 20-minute videos on 2 to 3 day turnarounds, with music, sound and visual effects.

Documentary and brand: Video Editor & Graphic Designer

  • JestXplore: took a week of footage from “Kayaking in Antarctica” and wove it into a story-driven travel documentary with comedy and a sense of wonder.
  • Rehabilitate Therapy: wrote, storyboarded and edited a promo video, made an explainer animation for a conference, and designed new branding.

Assistant Director, Element Animation

June 2015 to August 2021 · Minecraft animation studio, 5.25M YouTube subscribers

A small team with a huge, expectant audience, so I wore many hats across the whole pipeline. Credits include Villager News: WAR! (66M views, VFX), Villager News: The Giant Problem (34M; writing, layout, compositing, VFX, sound and music) and Minecraft Live: The Nether Update Encore (18M; sound design and VFX).

  • Pre-production: came up with concepts and wrote story ideas and scripts; did 3D asset modelling, UV mapping and texture art in Cinema 4D; helped build character animation rigs.
  • Production: did layout, voice acting and audio recording; managed freelance animators and reviewed their animation.
  • Post production: composited and reviewed render passes, added post effects, ran quality control and worked with the team to fix complex render issues.
  • Audio: did the foley, sound design, music, mixing and mastering for most of the studio’s videos.

Creative Director, ENON Films (formerly Let There Be Light Productions)

November 2011 to June 2015

  • Lead showrunner on Unsigned Transmissions, a live music TV show broadcast on Estuary TV in 2014.
  • Developed promo concepts with clients, wrote shot lists, planned shoots, and designed and coded websites.
  • Camera operation, cinematography, editing, colour grading, audio recording and mixing, motion graphics and composition.

Tools I have built.

  • MagiCC, AI captioning pipeline (Python, WhisperX, JavaScript, ExtendScript): word-accurate AI transcription, a browser review editor and an expression-driven After Effects caption rig. No more keyframing every word by hand.
  • ReelFrame, vertical video editor (Python, Flask, ffmpeg): turns 16:9 footage into 1080×1920 Shorts and Reels with split framing, keyframed pan and zoom, mixing and built-in animated captions.
  • The CDominator, Premiere Pro panel (CEP, ExtendScript): turns repetitive gaming edit tasks like zoom punches, overlays and censor bleeps into one click each.

Education.

BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology, University of Hull, 2008 to 2010

FdA Music Production, University of Lincoln, 2006 to 2008

A Levels: Computing, Design, Photography, Electronics, Physics. John Leggott Sixth Form College, 2003 to 2005

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