The Jumbalees in the Smelly Pirates: A Pirate story for Kids with cartoon pictures

 In 1969 Chris completed a degree in 3 dimensional design at Leeds College of Art. In the following year he did a one year post-graduate course at Bristol University in Radio, Film and Television Production obtaining a Distinction grade. As part of the course he wrote and made a short animated cartoon film called, "Come into my Parlour," that was exhibited at the 1970 Paris Biennale and the Edinburgh Film Festival.

He started his career in art as an animator in 1970 with a company called Halas & Batchelor and over the past 40 years has worked as a key animator on many TV commercials and series, including, “Superted,” “The Beatrix Potter collection,” “The Animals of Farthing Wood,” “The Forgotten Toys,” “Snailsbury Tales,” and more. He has also animated on the feature films, “Watership Down,” “The Twelve Tasks of Asterix,” and, “Lucky Luke and the Daltons.”

In 1998 he directed his first animation series that was aired on the BBC called, “Little Monsters,” based on a set of illustrated children’s books by Tony Garth. Chris has since worked as Animation Director on other television series including, “The Likeaballs,” “The Dorkhunters from Outer Space,” “Zorro,” and, “Horrid Henry.

Chris originally wrote and designed the Jumbalees stories for kids as an animated film project. The illustrated storybooks for children are an excellent medium to present the Jumbalees.