Ed Cookson
Artist

Ed Cookson has been making music and films since a young age. After graduating from Oxford in human sciences, Cookson joined a video games company, Rebellion, where he stayed for six years. He worked on various positions: sound, music, designer, animation, lead artist. He ended up being production manager and oversaw the process of creating games. During this time, he worked on games like Aliens Vs. Predator.

In 2002, Cookson left his video game company to start the Summerton Mill, a BBC-commissioned children's programme and the Sancho Plan, a company exploring interactive animation and video games.

During this time, Cookson worked on a webcomic series featured in Adventures Into Digital Comics, called The Engine, with comic book writer Simon Furman, comic book artist Andrew Wildman (both of Transformers fame) and New Media artist Adam Jennings. The Engine is a Flash webcomic, mixing animation, traditional comic book storytelling, sound and music.

Cookson was nominated for a BAFTA for his work in the video games industry and also won the Sundance Online Festival's 2004 People's Choice Award for his work with tokyoplastic.com.

The Sancho Plan is an audiovisual band producing unique live shows mixing animation, music, gaming technology and live performances. Their first show premiered in London at the National Film Theatre in 2005. Since then, they've performed in Austria, the US and the UK.