Tuff Animation

Dawn Tuffery is a stop-motion animator and recently completed her Master of Arts at Waikato Institute of Technology.

Dawn has created a number of animated short films, including ‘Swing’ (2007), which was selected for New Zealand International Film Festival, Show Me Shorts Festival (Aus/NZ), Tokyo International Environmental Film Festival, Reelframe Festival (Canada), Nextframe International Touring Festival (USA, finalist in ‘animation’ category), and Aotearoa Environmental Film Festival (winner: ‘Best emerging talent’ award),

Dawn lives in Hamilton and enjoys animation, ultradistance running, wearable arts and eating.

Below is an old-ish showreel, which she hopes to update soon.