Simon Whiteley

Born in 1962, Lancashire, UK. Production Designer, Art Director, Visual Effects Supervisor. Author of the Knights of Castle Wood quest for the Eirys Coeden guardians of the Mimlacode, and the Peter Rabbit and the Merlin pentalogy.

Creative mind behind the Peter Rabbit movies franchise and designer of the iconic “digital rain” code in The Matrix trilogy. My family's name is imprinted in the digital rain for a reason, which dates back beyond Arthurian Legend.

A childhood spent barefoot and free between the UK and the wilds of central Africa, where I first encountered the Eirys Coeden and Mimla.

I completed my BA (Hons) in Design and Visual Communication in Birmingham, UK where I studied art, story and longevity in civilisations and began writing about the Eirys Coeden. My career began at the BBC, Pebble Mill, Birmingham before moving to BBC, Shepherds Bush, London with the introduction of Quantel's Paintbox in 1985. In 1986 I joined BPCC Video Graphics pioneering Quantel's XL Graphic Paintbox (the forerunner to Photoshop) freelanced for the newly emerging Framestore before heading to Sydney, Australia in 1987 to work for The Video Paint Brush Company. Precursor to Animal Logic which I joined in 1991 working on commercials then movies for over thirty years. Most of which have had some environmental grounding - The Babe movies, Happy Feet, the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Owl movie, the Peter Rabbit movies, even The Lego movies and The Matrix movies are trying to get humans to open t…