Misha Stanford-Harris Managing Director

Misha became MD of Glassworks at the beginning of 2010. His long-running career in the industry began as a runner at Lambie Nairn in the early 90s and has since spanned many companies & continents, including Cell Animation, VTR, Nice Shoes in New York & Rushes.

He has been post-producing for nearly 15 years & joined Glassworks in 2007. He has extensive shoot supervision experience & a wide knowledge of all things post production.

Outside the wonderful world of Glassworks, Misha can be found trundling around a football pitch on a Sunday morning. A tough, tackling defender with a 'hard but fair' attitude to the beautiful game, when not on the pitch he is often adopting the same defensive stance whilst being bossed around by his 5 year old daughter.

Alastair Hearsum Head of 3D

Alastair is a founder and director of Glassworks.  He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh college of art and after a spell in the wilderness as a lifeguard found his feet again after a post grad course in electronic imaging at Duncan Of Jordanstone college of Art. He joined Complete Video as junior animator in 1990 where he met Hector Macleod.

He has a number of awards on his mantelpiece including an Emmy for his work and VFX supervision on the film Dreamkeeper, a BTA award for direction on a Hamlet ad and also British Television Advertising and London Effects and Animation awards for computer animation on Aero 'Kiosk' and Sprite 'Kebab'.

Alastair has recently won Best Animation and Best CGI at the 2011 British Arrows Craft Awards, for TalkTalk "Homes within Homes".

Character animation is his overriding passion and his forte and he's never happier than when he is breathing life into some inanimate object such as chips, bricks and shoes.

Duncan Malcom Head of 2D

Glassworks Head of 2D is Duncan Malcolm who has been in the industry for over 20 years starting as a wee boy in a small Scottish production company where he began his practical education of shoots. After setting up a small production company at age 22, he finally turned towards the post production side at the once prolific Picardy Television in Scotland.

His move to London led him to freelance at a variety of facilities, including a stint as Creative Director of Triangle, Saatchi's facility arm, before passing through Rushes & finally landing at Glassworks in 2004, becoming head of 2D in 2005.

The diversity of his background shows in his effects supervision and understanding of differing production approaches. The many directors that seek to work with him appreciate his vast technical advice which is always sympathetic to the project as a whole rather than solely focused on, or for the sake of, the effects work.

Notable work includes the recent Dulux commercial, directed by Adam Berg, as well as many other memorable campaigns such as Egg finance, Guinness, Orange, Surf, Vauxhall Astrabatics & Talk Talk to name but a few.

Duncan has recently won Best VFX at the 2011 British Arrows Craft Awards, for TalkTalk "Homes within Homes".