Jordan Coles Junior Rigger at MPC

Jordan Coles

Congratulations to Escapee Jordan Coles who has just started a new role as Junior Rigger at MPC in London. 

MPC is one of the UK's leading animation and VFX houses, responsible for hits such as the 2019 remake of The Lion King and The Jungle Book.

While at Escape Studios, Jordan directed the award-winning short films "Death From Above" and "BoxBots". Jordan also contributed custom rigs to the award-winning short film "Hat Shop".

Jordan Coles

Jordan Coles directed "Death From Above"

While at Escape Studios, Jordan developed his skills as an animator, director, and rigger.  In his second year of studies, he directed the award-winning short film "Death From Above", and also built custom rigs for the award-winning short film "Hat Shop". 

Awards and Nominations

In his third and final year at Escape Studios, Jordan co-wrote and co-directed the award-winning film BoxBots, and co-wrote the short film "SideQuest".  To date Jordan has won five festival awards, and received three award nominations. 

Death From Above

"Death From Above", has won multiple festival awards, including "Best Trailer" at the Sensus Film Festival.  The short was directed by Jordan Coles, and produced by Callum Wylie; Cinematography was by Daniel Brand-Sinyinza.  "Death From Above" is a teaser/trailer for an action adventure web series.

Escapees at MPC

Jordan joins many Escapees who have started their careers at MPC in recent years, including

• Nickoel Izharudin, Associate Producer at MPC
• Rassoul Edji, LookDev and Texture Artist at MPC
• Emily Lim-Sarrias, texture artist at MPC
• Maria Casanueva, animator at MPC
• Chan Sagoo, animator at MPC

You can find Jordan listed at the IMDB here.

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