Daniel Baidoo Animator at Maga Animation

Daniel Baidoo

Many congratulations to Escapee Daniel Baidoo, who has found work as an animator at Maga Animation, an animation company based in Monza, Italy.

Daniel is currently working remotely for Maga, animating "4-5 seconds of animation a day" on Ricky Zoom 2, a British CGI preschool series about a red motorbike named Ricky.

Prior to Ricky Zoom, Daniel worked at Animal Logic animation studio in Sydney, Australia.

About Daniel Baidoo

Maga Animation

Daniel joined our first cohort of undergraduate animator students at Escape Studios, and soon embraced internship opportunities, doing freelance jobs for small animation companies while he developed his skills and built up a demo reel.

Internships
Daniel started his animation career by interning at King Bee animation while he was still a first year undergraduate, gaining valuable industry insight.  In 2018 Daniel found a role as a junior animator on the WW2 movie "Hurricane", working over the summer at Lipsync Post in London.  Prior to that he also worked at Lipsync on the feature film Showdogs.

Animal Logic

Ricky Zoom

After graduating from Escape Studios, Daniel started work as an animator at Animal Logic animation studio in Sydney, Australia.

Maga Animation
Maga Animation was founded in 1996 in Maga Italy. It is a small studio, which currently offers opportunities to remote animators working from home, under Covid-19 Conditions.

Ricky Zoom 2
Ricky Zoom 2 is a British CGI preschool series about a red motorbike named Ricky.

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