Nancy Ellis, has over 20 years industry experience, working as both an illustrator and animator, since attaining her BA at Camberwell College, London.
Nancy's journey into producing animation for TV began with Catchphrase, (a popular UK TV show back in the day!), and was on hand at the recording studio to make last minute adjustments or create new animations during filming.
Then on to a West London production company, working for clients including the BBC, Nickelodeon & Fox Kids. Nancy's position as Animation Director included developing concepts for pitches, designing characters, storyboarding, animating & leading animation teams through to final production.
After several happy years, Nancy began working for herself and teamed up with London based agencies to produce animations for major brands, always with an emphasis on character design and colourfully, illustrated backgrounds.
This led to opening her own animation studio, MightyPow.com with Lee Ellis, and a long standing collaboration with the brilliant people at In Tune for Life, (a UK registered charity), providing short animated films to assist their global health campaigns.
End clients include: The World Health Organistation (WHO), The University College London (UCL), Public Health England and the NHS.
Drawing children and the art of storytelling have always been a huge passion which led to developing a style for illustrating childhood moments from old family photos.
It was through sharing this work with friends, that the concept for Heavens to Betsy was born, an illustration service where Nancy has been re-creating special moments in a vintage storybook style, by private commission, including a bespoke book. You can find out more and view the gallery of illustrated children, by heading over to HeavenstoBetsy.co.uk
From here, branching out into local landmarks proved popular and meant that Nancy could work on a range of artwork to sell at markets and online. It was through this work, that the incredible opportunity to illustrate two local cookbooks came along.
Nancy would love to hear from you, whatever your illustration requirements might be.