ART DIRECTING
Directing short films and music videos led me to motion graphics. Motion graphics led me back to directing.
Now I lead teams, design frames, ideate on dynamic visual concepts, and tell stories.
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS NERF BLASTER AD
Animated Commercial for a new Nerf Blaster
Client: Nerf + Riot Games
Studio: Two Fresh Creative
Role: Art Director/Designer/Animator/Illustrator
Tools: After Effects, Procreate
PRO BULL RIDING LEAGUE EXPLAINER
Animated explainer video for The PBR Teams League
Client: PBR League
Studio: Two Fresh Creative
Role: Art Director/Designer/Animator/Illustrator
Tools: Illustrator, After Effects, Procreate, C4D
SOCIAL MEDIA SUPER BOWL AD
Animated Ad for Cookie Company
Client: Lenny & Larry's Cookies
Project Type: Direct to Client
Role: Art Director/Designer/Animator/Illustrator
Tools: ASeprite, Photoshop, After Effects
PAPER HEART MUSIC VIDEO
Director/Animator/Editor
When you win best director at the Silver Sound Showdown you get to direct a video on their dime in New York. I had the great fortune of winning for my video Lost boy Found and as a result created this video for the band Blood and Glass. Paper Heart is a concept that explores the world of wheatpaste street art by placing the lead singer of Blood and Glass on the walls of Brooklyn. The video tells a story of two-dimensionality, isolation, self-expression, and annihilation through a careful selection of locations, site-specific movement, and surrealist imagery. It’s a playfully dark, imaginative, emotionally triumphant tragedy that begs to be viewed again immediately.
It was an experience I will never forget.
BEHIND-THE-SCENES
AGATHA SAVAGE:THE ORIGIN OF CRUELTY
ANIMATED BRAND FILM
Director/Designer/Illustrator/Animator/Editor
This animated brand film was created to help launch a uniquely sinister sweets company called Agatha Savage. I designed the characters, illustrated the environments, hired talented character animator Sabrina Cotugno to handle specific moments, and animated the rest myself in flash and after effects. Produced and creative directed by Eric Stein.
A unique brand position was built around the feeling of eating your last piece of chocolate; the implied cruelty and sadness when there is only an empty box. The film converts the brand position to an entertainment/content proposition – about a fictitious character named Agatha Savage, who from her own love-scorned heart, makes wonderful chocolates that torture us all.
PRE-PRODUCTION
LOST BOY FOUND MUSIC VIDEO
Director/Animator/Illustrator/Editor
Grand Prize Winner of The Silver Sound Showdown - showdown.nyc
Lost Boy Found explores the style of a shadow puppet show through a hybrid technique of live action and animation. It tells the story of a lonely ghost who saves the woman he loves from the incredible dangers of a shadow world.
Music & Lyrics by MK Jackson
CAST:
Shaun Brown
Hartleigh Buwick
CREW:
Winsor Yuan, Producer
Kai Saul, Director of Photography
Brett Newton, Associate Producer & Choreographer
Nikita Maxwell, Production Designer
PRE-PRODUCTION
GENGHIS KHAN
ANIMATED SHORT
Animation Director/Illustrator/Animator
I was hired to direct an animated sequence for the feature documentary film In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan. For this 7 minute sequence that spans the life of the titular character, I employed a minimalist illustration look and limited animation style.
In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan (2018)
Directors: Chris D. Nebe, JJ Osbun
PRE-VIZ
