IN SESSION: Networking in Animation

In this conversation, Samantha Moore (Head of Programme, Animation MA) and Bunny Schendler (Introduction to Animation: Contexts and Process Course Leader), will speak with recent Animation RCA graduate Nour Chamis (Road Rage) and Animator and Director Louis Hudson (Dice Productions) about how they have built thriving communities and how these have developed into great opportunities in the world of animation.

Nour Khamis

Nour Khamis is an Ecuadorean-Palestinian artist and animator based in London. After graduating from the Animation programme at the Royal College of Art in 2025, she co-founded the animator collective Road Rage Studio alongside her RCA peers. Through gallery shows, screenings, and collaborative events, Road Rage Studio is dedicated to cultivating a vibrant, supportive animation community in London. Alongside her collective work, Nour works as a freelance animator and maintains an active painting studio practice.

Louis Hudson

Louis Hudson is an animator and director who has created characterful work and films for the likes of BBC, Channel 4, and Nickelodeon. Louis also runs Overlap Animation Show & Tell, possibly the most unique animation event going. A thriving animation community has grown around it, creating opportunities for animators and drawing industry into the West Midlands.

Bunny Schendler

Bunny is an animator and filmmaker working with documentary, sequential practice and combined media. She has devised collaborative projects where the voice is central to unveiling human experience, through animation, combined media, augmented reality. Bunny’s teaching practice at the RCA focuses on sequential processes and filmmaking, founded on her experience as an independent animator and industry experience. Bunny is the course leader on the upcoming RCA short course - Introduction to Animation: Contexts and Process.

Dr Samantha Moore

Sam’s research and practice use animation to document the invisible, particularly in scientific arenas. The invisible can be conceptual, temporarily concealed, hermeneutic, overlooked, or implicit. Sam is an animator and researcher with an interest in documentary, science and art, practice as research. Her practice is often in animated documentary. In addition to her role at the RCA, she is an Associate Professor in Animation at University College Volda, Norway, and co-editor of Animation Practice, Process & Production, Intellect Press Journal, with Dr Miriam Harris (Auckland University of Technology). Sam is the course leader on the upcoming RCA short course - Introduction to Animation: Contexts and Process.