Bournemouth University (BU) graduates, Sue Rowe and Scott Pritchard have won an Emmy award for their VFX work on ‘Andor: Season Two’ television series, broadcast on the Disney+ channel.
Sue Rowe completed a Masters in Computer Animation in 1994 at BU’s National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), and Scott Pritchard, also an NCCA graduate completed his Masters in Digital Effects in 2002.
The graduates and other team members who worked on the VFX for the series were honoured for ‘Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or Movie’ category. The International Emmy Awards, also known as ‘The Emmys’ ceremony is held in the US annually and was established in 1973 to honour excellence in TV programming.
Sue Rowe worked as a VFX Supervisor for Scanline VFX, a company with offices all over the world who commented on the win saying: “After being nominated for ‘Andor: Season One’, taking home the win for ‘Season Two’ is a dream come true. A huge thank you as well to our partners at Disney, ILM, Lucasfilm and the many other talented studios and artists whose collaboration made ‘Andor’ such a special show. This Emmy is truly a shared achievement across the VFX community and we’re honoured to have been part of it.”
Scott Prichard who worked as the VFX Supervisor for the VFX company ILM based in London returned back to BU in 2022 for BU’s annual BFX exhibition. Scott took time out from his busy working schedule to showcase his VFX work on ‘Andor: Season One”, to an audience of VFX and Animation students from BU’s NCCA and members of the public visiting the exhibition.
Professor Christos Gatzidis, Dean of the Faculty of Media, Science and Technology said: “It is, as always, immensely rewarding to see graduates excelling in very high-profile competitive settings. Many, many congratulations to Sue and Scott for this recent achievement. Their fantastic success in the 2025 Emmy Awards highlights the excellent value that our courses within the NCCA and throughout the Faculty of Media, Science and Technology continue to offer.”
For further information about the VFX and Animation courses, please visit the BU website.
