Career
After graduating Saint Martin's School of Art, Hulin joined Framestore's then small CG animation team. Working amongst some of the world's foremost visual effects artists, he gained valuable experience and contributed to many award-winning commercial projects, TV series such as Walking With Beasts, Dinotopia, Arabian Nights and Merlin, as well as film projects such as Harry Potter II and III. With a diverse experience in CG animation, Hulin seized the opportunity to move to New York to set up Framestore's US operation and build its CG department from scratch. It was shortly after, in 2005, that Hulin was called upon to redesign the GEICO Gecko and remained the Animation Director for 12 successful years.
After building one of the most revered CG departments in the World David moved on to focus on his career as an Animation Director, Hulin has been passionately involved in developing animated characters and brand icons. His creative leadership and Brand relationships have seen successes in numerous groundbreaking animated campaign; Pepsi - chicken, two FedEx Super Bowl spots; Stick and Pigeon; iconic GE spots; Crane, Ellie, Scarecrow, Tree and Mammoth (never aired), nearly 100 GEICO Gecko commercials, [3] Sour Patch Kids, the well loved M&M's characters and most recently Nigel the Owl for Xyzal. Hulin was also integral in the development of Framestore’s proprietary real-time animation system, which has been deployed for many major brands with animated icons.
After his directorial debut with a campaign of commercials for the GEICO Gecko in 2006, Hulin has also been involved in creative development of content for such clients as Coors, [4] Samsung, Time Warner, Prudential, Charmin, Breath Right, EA, Corning, M&M's. [5] and Xyzal. Through his central focus of Animation and VFX Hulin continues to collaborate with brands he feels strongly about through his Studio at Free Range VFX .
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