Gareth Taylor

Gareth is an innovative and highly experienced Director and Movement Director for theatre, motion and performance capture, and VO. Over more than 20 years he has worked on over 100 motion and performance capture projects, and he brings a wealth of experience to every class.

Working as a Cinematics Director, VO Director, 1st AD and Movement/Creature specialist, he has collaborated with incredible teams including Netflix, Amazon Games, Supermassive Games, Blur Studios, EA Games, Sony, Playground Games and Criterion. He has been a Movement Associate for The Mocap Vaults since its conception and has taught a range of classes across the UK and internationally, in South Korea, Germany, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. He has lectured at various symposiums and events about performing for the digital realm, and has contributed to several books on the subject for Bloomsbury, Methuen and Red Globe Press.

Having trained as an actor and attended the renowned Jacques Lecoq movement school in Paris, he has featured in over 50 AAA games and films, including Secret Level for Blur Studios & Amazon Prime and Saber’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. He worked on the hugely successful Until Dawn and Man of Medan for Supermassive Games, Diablo II: Resurrected, Hitman 2 and the original Harry Potter games, as well as on creature development and performance for the feature films Pirates of the Caribbean, John Carter of Mars, Spectre and Total Recall.