Bart Yates

Bart is the Founder & Executive Producer of Blinkink, one of London’s top animation and production studios, specialising in innovative mixed-media filmmaking for music videos, commercials, and entertainment. 

Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Bart started his career in the music industry before moving to London in 1999. He joined the advertising agency WCRS as a runner and started his path into production. In 2002, he joined Blink Productions as a producer, and founded their dedicated animation division Blinkink in 2005. He co-founded Blink Industries, their long-form entertainment arm, in 2012 and recently started Blink Games to focus on video game development. 

Highlights along the way include music videos for Iron Maiden, Dua Lipa, Gorillaz and Elton John, the BAFTA-winning cult puppet horror comedy series 'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared' for Channel 4, an Emmy-award winning episode of Love Death + Robots 'All Through The House’ for Netflix, and commercials including John Lewis' animated classic 'The Bear & The Hare’, the embroidered BBC World Cup trailer ‘The Tapestry’, and Harvey Nichols’ Cannes Lions Grand-Prix winning 'The Shoplifters’.