Steve May is an animation director & freelance illustrator based in London (UK).

He was born in 1968 in sunny Hastings & studied painting & film-making at Trent Polytechnic (1988-91) and after several years working as an illustrator / animator & aspiring (but unsuccessful ) pop star gained an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art (1999-2001)

He currently works as a animation director & freelance illustrator.

As an animation? director his film Rabbits won the Association of Illustrators Gold New Media Award 2010 & X&Y (2008) was shortlisted for the British Animation Awards 2008 has been screened internationally.His films Gut (2001) & Round (2000) have been screened in numerous international festivals & he has directed work for commercials & television including Spacehopper Man for BBC 3's acclaimed Monkeydust series. As an illustrator he continues to produce high quality illustration work for a variety of clients including Marks & Spencer, Harper Collins, The Guardian, Puffin & Faber? amongst many others .

He is currently represented by Picasso Pictures (for moving stuff) & Arena illustrators agents (for still stuff)

He lives in glamorous east London & his mum says he's a genius.