ALEX CHILVERS is an illustrator, painter and animator.

Wembley 98

An animation about my experience of watching Grimsby Town FC play in the Auto Windscreens Final at Wembley in 1998.

Showreel

The Football Room

Huh!

An animation portraying one man’s journey towards running a half marathon. The monotonous routine of his daily life encourages him to sign up to the race in order to get fit. During training his imagination becomes somewhat ‘wild’; along with temptations from the pub.

With sound design by Steven Dove.

Xabi’s Lost World

Xabi’s Lost World encapsulates the personal nostalgia of two very different worlds by combining my longstanding love of dinosaurs with my passion for football and muse Xabi Alonso. With sound design and music composition by Steven Dove, Xabi’s Lost World is an animation that encompasses struggles on the pitch, loneliness and – how in turn – our imagination and heroes can help us to overcome our fears.

Escape from Syria – Fazia’s Story

After visiting Jordan, Jack interviewed Fazia – a Syrian refugee who fled across the border from Syria with her two children. He asked Fazia’s young children to draw pictures of their journey.

The animation takes inspiration from the children's drawings, using the voiceover of their mother Faiza to tell their story. It highlights the shocking numbers of displaced children, along with the large numbers of Syrian people who simply just ‘disappear’ under the Assad Regime.

An animation made with director Jack Newman, with sound design by Steven Dove.

Fisherman’s Life

Stop motion created entirely from white chalk on blackboard, encapsulating the life of trawlermen going out to sea from the fishing docks of Grimsby.