Stewart Macfarlane

Creative Director/Founder/ Adventure Advocate

Very much the action man, Stewart feels right at home operating the camera in any situation and his best work is a combination of his passion for film with extreme sports, including cycling, surfing and climbing. Stewart is constantly thinking about how to drive Soup forward and accomplishing our aspirations to work with the brands we love. With his many years of experience across all sectors of film production, directing a wide range of projects from TV commercials and programmes to Winter holiday films and global blue chip corporate films, Stewart’s artistic flair and knowledge is second to none.

Garan Rushton

Creative Director/Founder/ Surfer

Garan’s creativity spans across disciplines of brand and identity, print and web design; to motion design including video, graphics, 3D and compositing high-end films. Attention to detail is evident in everything he produces. When he’s not in his studio in Cardiff, Garan loves to be outdoors and comes from a remote area of Wales surrounded by beautiful mountains and beach scenery. A keen sportsman, his hobbies include mountain biking, snow boarding and surfing.

Emma Garland

Video Catalyst/ Yogi

Emma’s our go-to person for everything. She keeps Soup, its clients and all the projects organised, drawing upon her many years’ experience in corporate communications. Emma is an excellent project manager, as well as having a keen eye for detail, she ensures our clients keep to schedule and budget and loves to share her wealth of knowledge to get the best out of every project. And on top of all that she’s also a qualified yoga teacher.

Ellie Crowther

Producer and Social Wave Caster/ Cake Sculpter

Meet Ellie, our Junior Producer and Social Wave Caster.

Charged with bringing the creative concepts to life on our film sets, Ellie's dogged determination and resourcefulness to achieve the right look and style on set is second to none.

Highly organised and proactive, with a real eye for detail, Ellie helps manage our ever-growing client list and co-ordinates and manages the production elements of all our film and animation projects.

In her spare time, you'll find Ellie helping out in the family bakery, creating SpongeBob or R2D2 out of icing or traveling the world on one of her many adventures.

Dave O'Byrne

3D Visual Creative/ Photographer

David is our go-to guru for all things 3D and VFX. With over 20 years' experience, there's nothing that he can't create with a broad range of specialisms and a wide spectrum of work that includes engine animations for Ferrari and complex large scale animations for Shell.

With his strong background in both digital asset production and project management, David anticipates and translates our client needs into creative and effective solutions.

In his spare time, you'll find David physically attached to his camera on many urban explorations or enjoying free time with his family.

Emily Roberts

Creative/ Sharp Shooter

Emily graduated from Aberystwyth University with First Class Honours in Film + TV having been home-schooled from a young age. While at University she was elected Media Officer of the archery team and was selected to go on a 5 month exchange to Hong Kong where she learnt how to eat with chopsticks and picked up a grand total of two words. She has many strings to her bow (figuratively and literally) such as graphic design, web design, photography, filmmaking and editing and has won numerous awards for these skills. Emily is our right-hand woman for all things creative, be it animating, illustration, graphics, editing or behind the camera.

Outside of the editing suite, Emily enjoys archery and traveling with her camera all over the world to get that perfect shot.

Matt Burnham-Jones

Motion Graphics Designer/ Puppet Maker

When it comes to motion graphics, Matt is our man. He helps to bring Soup's videos to life with his innovative design skills and with his attention to detail, our client's ideas come alive.

He creates smooth, engaging videos, and along with his hardworking nature and determination to create high quality and original work, what more could you want!

In Matt’s spare time, he likes to draw any of his week’s influences or climb the mountains of Wales and of course create his bespoke homemade puppets

Olivia Rideal

Junior Editor/ Wildlife Enthusiast

Being an experienced filmmaker, Olivia is also a dab hand as our second or third camera operator for some of our larger shoots.

Having spent some time in a social media role previously, she has a keen eye for all things creative and is also our social and culture queen.

When not in the editing suite, you'll find Olivia shooting wildlife (with a camera that is!) and a bit further afield scuba diving off some exotic coast!

Ingrid Vila Rossello

Junior Editor/ Music Maker

Originally from Barcelona, Ingrid’s background and education is in Advertising and Public Relations, which only lends itself to understanding and researching our creative briefs. She also speaks Catalan, Spanish and Italian fluently which comes in handy on our multi-language video projects.

Ingrid has a real love for photography, which started at a really young age, and her passion and detail can be seen in every photo she takes. She has a real eye for beautiful shots and this transfers across into every edit she produces.

In her spare time, you’ll find Ingrid with her husky dog, competing in one of her many sports, or playing guitar.

Want to join us?/ BECOME A WAVEMAKER

Whether you’re freelance or looking for something more permanent, we’d love to hear from you. Whilst we’re a tight team, we work with lots of specialists, like animators, camera operators, sound recordists, copywriters, models, actors and voiceover artists.

Our people are well looked after with flexible working hours, ‘feeding’ days to keep the creative ideas flowing and fun-filled action-packed days out. For a glimpse behind the scenes at Soup, check out our blog.

Interested in becoming a Wavemaker? Then send us a kick-ass email, why you’re the one for us.