Reset 2025 – Meet the Delegates

Reset is a paid placement programme designed to inspire and empower both new entrants and junior professionals within the Scottish Animation, VFX, and Games sector.

For those starting out, Reset provides a structured path into the industry as a Trainee, offering invaluable hands-on experience. For emerging talent, the programme focuses on refining skills, advancing careers to Junior roles, and unlocking long-term growth opportunities.

Reset is funded by Screen Scotland via the BFI National Lottery Skills Cluster Fund.

Find out more about the selected Trainees and Juniors below.

Reset Trainees 

Anna‘s been interested in all things to do with art and video games from a young age, which naturally translated into pursuing a degree in design & illustration.

After graduating in 2024 she’s worked in a jewellery studio, a paint store and has participated in game design competitions in her free time. These collaborative projects along with continuing to draw and slowly tackling 3D modelling  have allowed her to continue learning and growing as an artist. Now she’s ready for the next step in her career and is eagerly awaiting the opportunity to get involved and learn more about all parts of the game development process. When she’s not working she likes to draw robots, cute girls and play souls-like games.

Having always enjoyed the medium of animation, Adam began creating his own animations in high school. This drew the attention of one of his art teachers who recommended a university course to him. He took the advice and studied 3D animation at Glasgow Caledonian University, graduating with a first-class honours degree. Throughout his studies he continued to consume the media that inspired him to go down this path in the hopes that one day he could be the one inspiring others through his animation.

Winner of UK’s Young Animator of the Year in 2020, graduate of CSSSA animation summer school 21’, Mentee at Boulder Media and newly graduated from Dundee University in June 2025 with a first-class degree in animation. Amelie has been dreaming about being an animator since she was 13. She is excited to start applying her skills to some awesome projects and bring everything she has to her role! Her passion’s outside of animation, crafting, travel and reading, inspire her to make short films and invest in coffee snobbery.

Angus‘s passion for filmmaking began early and led him to study Audio Visual Technology at Edinburgh College, where he discovered a love for motion design and video editing. In 2020, he ventured into 3D, learning Blender and Unreal Engine to bring ideas to life. Since then, he’s worked on music videos, adverts, and short films, including Collide, an immersive audiovisual performance at CCA Glasgow that blended motion capture with real-time immersive environments.

Ben has loved drawing for as long as he can remember and has always been obsessed with animation. While studying animation at DJCAD, he specialised in character design and 2D animation and directed his own short film. After graduating, he improved his portfolio while working in retail and continued pursuing his journey into the animation industry. Outside of animation, he is passionate about music and loves reading comics.

Fiona has had an eye for storytelling and detail in movies since she was a bairn. A degree in Animation didn’t seem to help, she continues talking about the craft of media production to any who listen. She has kept a hand in both worlds; volunteering at many animation festivals around the country to see more and learn from the industry and working to make ends meet in the leisure and retail spheres where she developed a cool head under pressure and an appreciation for the pride that a job well done gives someone. Fiona is now making the leap into VFX after producing award winning short films and finding the industry bursting with vibrant personalities she’s excited to meet.

Since childhood Lauren has always loved to draw which led to work in traditional animation. Since graduating from DJCAD in 2019 she has worked as a clean-up artist and rough animator on features and TV shows and is now branching out into the world of CG. Lauren can be found outside exploring the Scottish hills when she is not at her desk.

Lucas is a producer turn VFX and Technical artist. When starting undergraduate studies Lucas discovered his interest in Technical art but decided to pursue the career in production instead. Once he graduated and spent some time in the games industry he decided to pivot to a more technical, creative, and fun line of work. After a year of working on side projects as a VFX and Technical artist. He decided to join Abertay University on the new Technical Art and VFX masters.

Here is learned how to be a true self starter and solidified his passion. Now he is finally pursuing his dreams professionally at Wild Child Animations! Using all the experience he has accumulated to become the best he can be.

Mathilde van Ooijen is a Visual Medium Creator who has worked across various creative disciplines. She has a bachelors in Fashion and Design, Theatre, and Broadcast Production: TV and Radio. She has worked on a collection for Paris Fashion week, which led to work as a costume designer on various Theatre and Film projects, after which she specialised further in the field of Film and TV production. Recently, she received a hat-trick of RTS award wins for the short wildlife documentary that she directed and produced for her graduate project at UWS in Scotland, and Mathilde is now expanding her horizons into the field of virtual production as well by taking part in the Big Real Virtual Production Film Academy Programme in Dundee. She is extremely passionate about finding new approaches to engage audiences through immersive storytelling and loves to explore the bridges between creative disciplines to do so.

Scott graduated from Abertay University in 2025, with a first-class honours degree in Game Design and Production. During his time studying, he released his first small game on steam “I SUPPOSE” and got involved in the modding scene for the indie game “Rain World” for his honours. One of his favourite aspects of the games industry is how communities come together and innovate on what they enjoy, which is where his love of modding, DnD, and art came from. His goal is to develop another full indie game in the future. For now, he wants to gain some experience in industry and develop his skills within a professional creative environment, while also exploring his interests in drawing and graphic design in his free time.

 

Reset: Level Up – Juniors

Agata loves making things. If she’s not drawing, she will be knitting or printmaking or doing some other kind of craft.

Passionate about comics from a young age, it was a natural progression to choose animation as her career. The path there was not easy but hard work paid off when she was accepted into the Reset Trainee program.

After that, Agata has been working freelance focusing on illustration; now returning to her Reset host company as a junior 2D artist. She is excited to continue developing her skills in all different directions and pushing her creativity further through that.

For the last year and a half, Christian has worked in the creative industries as a Motion Designer. He started his journey at Edinburgh Napier University, where he studied BSc (Hons) Digital Media and Interaction Design. While at university, he engaged in a wide range of projects and spent a semester abroad in Stuttgart, Germany. It was during his higher education that he discovered a passion for Motion Graphics, which he decided to pursue as a career.

He gained his first industry experience through TRC Reset 2024, interning at Revenant as a Junior Artist. Since then, Christian has continued to work there permanently as Junior Motion Designer.

 

Originally from Germany, Lesley came to the UK to study for a BA in Visual Communication (Birmingham) and an MA in Illustration (Edinburgh). During her studies, she explored creative storytelling in comics, animation and video games, and developed an illustration practice driven by narrative and observation.

Her comic “Which Way?” was the winner of the 2024 Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize. She loves telling stories that connect with people, not just through illustration: the TRC Reset traineeship allowed her to combine her creative and organisational skills as a Production Assistant. Following her Reset placement, Lesley has continued to work at Wild Child and is now stepping up to Production Co-ordinator. When not working, she is usually up a hill somewhere.

With a First-Class undergraduate MA in Film & Visual Culture/Gaelic Studies and a Masters in Screenwriting with distinction, Kitty never expected to find herself in the world of VFX.

Now, after working over a year as Production Coordinator following her Reset placement with the 2D VFX studio FixFX, she has been credited on an array of notable projects including (but not limited to): “The Penguin” (HBO); “The Buccaneers” (AppleTV); “Blood of my Blood” (Starz); and the upcoming final season of “Outlander” (Starz). Outside of VFX, Kitty is an emerging screenwriter, participating in the 2024/25 Channel 4 New Writers Scheme, which ran alongside Reset across nine months. Most recently, she was the writer on the award-winning short film “Last Train Home” for the Edinburgh 48 Hour Project.

Next year, she and the team will be going to Filmapolooza in Lisbon, to see their film be screened alongside the other international city winners. Following her placement with FixFX, Kitty is now stepping up from VFX Coordinator to Junior VFX Producer and is excited for the opportunity to further develop her leadership skills and expertise in Production.

Graduating in 2022, Max began his career as an intern in the games industry in the Netherlands. Returning to the UK, Max made the transition to animation with Fye Network and co-founded Studio Zubaa, joining African artists to make a brand new kids show. To build his CV, Max volunteered as a Visual Development Artist at Nuboom Studios and joined the PIXAR Co-op Program, which led to working with BBC Kids & Family.

Joining TRC’s Reset program allowed Max to take everything he learned from animation development and vis dev and come back to game development to further enhance his skills.

Rebeccah has always had a love for storytelling, spending much of her childhood dreaming up characters, worlds, and adventures. That early passion naturally led to an interest in animation and games, and in 2021 she took her first steps into the industry. The path wasn’t always smooth, with a few false starts and challenges along the way, but things began to click after joining TRC’s Reset programme, this was a turning point that helped build confidence, structure, and a clearer direction. Since then, she’s gained a wide range of skills, from 2D art and animatics to 3D modelling and texturing. Now firmly on her feet, she’s continuing to develop as a multidisciplinary artist, with a strong drive to bring creative worlds to life through animation and games.