William Todd-Jones was born on 1958 and is a Welsh puppeteer, puppet designer, performer, director, movement consultant and writer for film, television and theatre in the UK and abroad.
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William Todd-Jones grew up in the village of Nantyglo in Wales.
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William Todd-Jones studied dance and acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
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William Todd-Jones worked on the television series His Dark Materials.
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William Todd-Jones has worked with the renowned Aardman on various projects as both a performer and creature consultant.
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William Todd-Jones spent 2017 as puppet shop director for Cirque du Soliel affiliates Monlove in Montreal, where he helped build the workshop, assemble the team and oversee the build for the theatre version of the successful animated film The Nut Job.
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William Todd-Jones has consulted for the Bristol Robotics Lab on how people might best interact with robots.
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William Todd-Jones wrote, designed, and directed this extravaganza on the theme of wildlife conservation, which was performed at major festivals across the UK, by African musicians, puppeteers, dancers, aerialists and acrobats.
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William Todd-Jones designed puppets and full-body costumes for River of Kings, a puppetry festival in Bangkok, Thailand, performed in front of the Thai Royal Palace in January 2003.
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In recent years, William Todd-Jones has specialised in bridging the disciplines of live performance and computer graphic animation, developing techniques in optical motion capture, performance animation and digital puppetry.
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William Todd-Jones has raised money for the charity by running marathons as a rhinoceros, appearing at fund-raising events, and by walking across Africa in the rhino costume, alongside author Douglas Adams.
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William Todd-Jones has started that he is determined to use his art to help people be aware of environmental issues.
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William Todd-Jones spent 2009 helping create the Ice Bear Project, aimed at drawing the public's attention to the issues around ocean temperature increase and how it affects the Arctic.