Terence Reilly
TERENCE REILLY
PROFILE | ABOUT ME
Character Animator with 20+ years’ experience across feature film, VFX, games, and interactive media. I specialise in performance and creature animation for high-end productions, with credits including Jurassic World, Paul, Chappie, Iron Man 2, John Carter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Planet 51. A career highlight was animating the 3D interactive short ‘Special Delivery’ for Google at Aardman Animations.
Alongside my studio work, I co-founded Olta, a creative technology company where I led partnerships, fundraising, and the management of creative teams developing interactive art toolkits. This experience strengthened my communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, which I bring into every production environment.
I have also worked as a Senior Technical Instructor at UWE, Bristol, designing and delivering the university’s first Masters-level VR course. In this role I trained students in industry-standard tools, while mentoring and guiding them through creative production workflows—further developing my ability to support and inspire teams.
STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS [Selected Projects]
Aardman Animations – Animation on Google’s ‘Special Delivery’ interactive 360 animated project.
Image Engine VFX – Realistic creature/character animation for VFX-heavy scenes such as Chappie, TNMT and Jurassic World.
Double Negative VFX – Integrated performance and action-based animation within complex VFX shots on Paul, Iron Man 2 and John Carter on Mars.
Ilion Animations - Full-body character performance for high-end animated feature, called ‘Planet 51’.
Project Links
Animation Work
Animation Reel – Watch here
Highlights: Feature Animation + VFX (Jurassic World, Chappie, Iron Man 2, TMNT, Planet 51).
20+ years of experience in character performance and creature animation.
Worked with studios including Aardman, Double Negative, Image Engine, The Mill.
Featuring emotional performance, physicality, and integrating animation seamlessly into live-action VFX.
Google’s “Special Delivery” (Aardman x Google) – View project
Role: Senior Animator (I animated the last 1 minute of this project).
Worked on a 360° interactive animated short for Google.
Delivered high-quality performance animation within innovative VR storytelling format.
Design & Motion Work
Motion Design & Graphics – Portfolio
Motion graphics, visual design, and mixed-media projects.
Skilled in After Effects, Premiere, and integrating 3D workflows into design pipelines.
Character Design – Portfolio
Explorations in stylised characters, concepts, and illustrations.
Experience, skills and understanding of pipelines for VFX, animation and WebXR real-time productions.
Fun Design Experiments – View here
Personal creative work exploring visual styles, experimental graphics, and playful concepts.
Interactive Media & Creative Technology
Olta Art – olta.art
Role: Co-founder & Creative Director
Built and ran a creative business from the ground up, overseeing daily operations, logistics, and team management.
Produced Immersive events in Bristol, London, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin, building partnerships and engaging audiences while representing 25+ interactive WebXR artists projects.
Raised $385K through investor pitching and grant funding.
Managed staff schedules, internal communications, budgeting.
Interactive App Development – experiences.olta.art
Currently developing an app that blends animation, interactivity, and immersive storytelling.
Focus on WebXR technologies and new ways for audiences to engage with creative content.