A mysterious tiger turns up unannounced and invites himself in for afternoon tea. Young Sophie and her mummy watch in fascination as the tiger proceeds to eat not only their tea, but the entire contents of the fridge and everything else in the house!

Robin Shaw is an award-winning animator and illustrator known for his lyrical hand-drawn work. As well as 15 years as a director of animated commercials, he has worked closely with children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs on a number of film projects for Lupus Films. He was part of the directing team behind THE SNOWMAN AND THE SNOWDOG, and was the natural choice for art director on ETHEL & ERNEST, the feature-length adaptation of Briggs’ graphic novel telling the story of his parents’ lives together. 2016 saw his debut as a co-director on the BAFTA-nominated animated film WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT, adapted from the children’s classic by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. In 2017 he designed a series of animated sequences for PADDINGTON 2. His first picture book ‘Me & My Dad’ was published by Hodder Children’s Books in May 2017 and he has recently illustrated a re-telling of Briggs’ ‘The Snowman’ by Michael Morpurgo. With both picture book and film projects in the pipeline, his career now happily straddles the worlds of animation and illustration.

FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA
2017 PADDINGTON 2 ("D animator)
2016 ETHEL & ERNEST (art director)
2016 WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
2012 THE SNOWMAN AND THE SNOWDOG (assistant director)
1997 FLATWORLD (key animator)