PyCon UK 2025

Joe Spademan

Joe is Head of Animation at Doodledo and has been animating since his first short in 1989. Since joining doodledo 30 years later, he has led the animation team through 2D, 3D, stop-motion, live-action and virtual production projects at Doodledo’s home in Deansgate, Manchester - a short walk from Pycon!

Joe has the responsibility of making sure everyone in the Doodledo animation team is set up and able to succeed, from pairing animators with projects that suit their skillet to leading team feedback sessions to collaborate and learn from each other as a team.


Session

09-21
16:30
25min
Enriching animation with python
Joe Spademan, Travis Ralph-Donaldson

Based in the heart of Manchester, Doodledo are a film and animation studio that use python for rigging and animating with Maya. They are now partnering with Niter to streamline the process of animating lip-sync from audio files using ethical AI tooling.

Main stage