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Debra Smith

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham School of Art & Design

Staff Group(s)
Animation

Role

Debra is the course leader for MA Animation. Prior to teaching Debra worked as an animator and has 10 years industry experience. She has also taught at Kingston University, the Kent Institute of Art & Design, and Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA.

Career overview

After graduating from the Royal College of Art, Debra worked as a freelance animator in London. She received a BAFTA nomination for her RCA graduation film Touch. She was the animator in residence at the Museum of the Moving Image in partnership with Channel 4, where she developed a short film proposal.

Following the residency, Channel 4 commissioned the film el Caminante – for which she received her second BAFTA nomination and was also nominated for the Cartoon D’Or award.

External activity

EE for BA Animation at UAL, LCC, engagement 2021-2026

Course(s) I teach on

  • Concept art featuring a rabbit sitting on a stone in a green forest
    Undergraduate | Full-time / Sandwich

    https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/ba-hons-animation

  • Laurence Steel
    Postgraduate taught | Full-time

    https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/pg/ma-animation