Manchester Animation Festival

Nila Wood is a British-Indian illustrator and designer for animation. She grew up in both Scotland and Bristol, recently settling somewhere in the middle near Manchester. She graduated with a BA(Hons) in Animation Production at the University of the West of England and completed an animation residency at CalArts in the US in 2016. Since then, she has worked as a designer for children’s animation, with studios such as Lighthouse, Blink Inc and Funko. After over ten years of experience in the industry, she is now working at Blue Zoo on Numberblocks Season 8 as well as moving into children’s book illustration.

In her spare time, Nila loves to teach – and can often be found lecturing her toddlers on the hidden uses of colour theory. View Nila’s work and contact her at www.nilawood.net