Dr. Shaun Britton is the Course Director of the Animation degree at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. An animator, character and product designer, he was past president of Illustrators Australia and a former Walt Disney and Warner Bros. creative. His practice-led research has been published in MIT’s Design Issues and in Visual Communication Quarterly; other creative outcomes, including a graphic novel, are developed through his boutique design agency, squidinc.com.