Key details
Date
- 11 March 2026
Read time
- 1 minute
Networking is something that creatives are always told to do but it can seem intimidating and unrealistically hard to people entering the professional space.
Networking in Animation was a conversation about how to approach this potentially scary career skill; breaking it down, talking about barriers and discussing the best ways to approach it in a way that feels authentic and meaningful.
Speakers
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 a BAFTA nominated animator and filmmaker working with documentary, sequential practice in a combination of 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 is a BAFTA nominated film maker (2024) whose work has been featured several times in the New York Times. She is an animated documentary maker and researcher with interests in practice as research, science, and materiality. She is interested in hidden and overlooked stories and communities, especially those marginalised by gender, age, socio-economic status, visual accessibility, and geography. In addition to her role at the RCA, she is an Associate Professor in Animation at University College Volda, Norway.
