Raised on a healthy diet of Wallace and Gromit, The Wombles, Yellow Submarine, and the Charlie Says… films, Ewan Shepherd is the eternal child of his parents’ VHS tapes. He is a BFI Animation Academy alumni, using a handcrafted aesthetic to tell colourful and humorous stories.

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Ewan’s animated shorts have been exhibited on the Toronto Short Film Channel, the Leeds Film Player, and the INDIs Short Film Showcase. In 2025, he completed work on a short titled The Mole Catcher, which has been selected for exhibition at OffBeat Folk Film Festival 2026. He was also added to the Shiny Awards’ Shiny List of commercial video makers for his music video The Amber List – The Wrong. Most recently, he was selected as 1 of 5 animators to take part in Film Hub North's Animation Development Lab, participating in collaborative sessions to help develop one another's animated short film ideas.

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Outside of animation, he worked as part of a writers room developing a new thread of children’s phonics titles for the Fischer Family Foundation’s Success For All program, and is credited for writing 15 classroom books, alongside 2 online stories for older readers. In 2021, his one-act play The Elephant Suite was selected by the development team at Paines Plough to receive specialist feedback and coaching. He was selected as one of the Top 100 in Prospect100’s design competition for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In his free time, he writes and records music as part of the The Room Upstairs.

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Ewan has worked on animated and illustrated projects for clients including Humanitarian Affairs Asia and the Prospect100 NFT Community for Ukraine.