Cyriak Harris

Cyriak Harris is an English freelance animator best known by the mononym Cyriak, and his B3ta username Mutated Monty. He is known for his surreal and often disturbing short web animations.

A regular contributor to the British website B3ta since 2004,

Cyriak's YouTube account features a compilation of his animations, which have been popular throughout the blogosphere and noted by Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk. Cyriak's animation "MOO" has featured on the front page of Wired. His 2009 video "poo pants" features an animated sample of broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh singing a repeated refrain from the bowls of a series of toilets, some of which fly through space.

As a freelance animator, he has been commissioned by the video sharing website Sumo TV, and a music video for Grand Popo Football Club, among others.

Cyriak made the "Spaceology" animation in the third episode of the fourth season of the TV series The IT Crowd and the "Goth to Boss" animation in the sixth episode.

In 2013 he directed music videos for Bonobo's "Cirrus" and Bloc Party's "Ratchet".

In 2015 he created the opening credits for the Netflix series W/ Bob & David.

On 3 December 2009 Cyriak was announced as the winner of the 2009 E4 E Stings competition.

In 2006 he also received a special mention in the results of a Photoshop competition run by the technology series Click.

On 9 September 2009, British illusionist Derren Brown, live on UK television, claimed to predict the National Lottery numbers. Cyriak uploaded a possible explanation, to his YouTube channel, which gained half a million views within a week and attention from national press.

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