Hannah Lau Walker

With over ten years of experience within the commercial animation industry, Hannah has worked at indie studios to huge production houses. Animating everything from a laundrette morphing into a beautiful garden to a cow on skates. Since graduating from Central St.Martins, Hannah has developed her 2D animation skills to senior roles and led large animation productions working closely with crew to deliver exceptional work and has expanded into directing short films and commercials.

Award winner for the Depict British Awards (2022) her film ‘Yeah, I’m Good Thanks’ and participated in festival panels to present her work ‘She Creates Change: Trang’ (Annecy 2024). Hannah has also been an Animation and Film Juror for numerous industry panels including BAFTA Cymru (2023), Latin American Design Awards (2024), British Animation Awards (2022), and The Young Animator of the Year UK since 2021.

Hannah is deeply committed to the animation industry, developing community as a founder of She Drew That (established 2019) collaborating with women and studios across the industry to develop mentoring, workshops and residency projects and resources. She is invested in pushing the scope of animation forward not only by utilising story as a way to connect with an audience, but also as a speaker and as a host organising participative sessions in a number of international and UK festivals and outreach programmes to expose a diverse audience to the possibilities of animation.