> Animation, Motion Graphics, Compositing
Title:
Nerd Rage
Interstitial Animation 1
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc.
Description:
I created this interstitial animation for a web show being produced by Bravo Media. The art direction of the series ended up changing, and my animations no longer fit the look of the series, but they still remain some of my favorite work.
My role:
Concept, motion graphics design
Title:
Taio Cruz
Rokstarr
Promo
Date:
2010
Client:
Island Def Jam
Description:
I made this broadcast promo while at Bravo Media. I had a great deal of creative control -- I was just given the audio and clips from Taio Cruz's music videos, and I ran with the rest.
My role:
Concept, motion graphics design
Title:
ExxonMobil Natural Gas commercial
Date:
2010
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Euro > ExxonMobil
Description:
This was one of several broadcast commercials for ExxonMobil that I worked on while at Tim Hunter Design.
My role:
Storyboard artist, motion graphics design, compositing
Title:
Branded Media Minute Episode 01
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc.
Description:
Branded Media Minute
is a web show produced by that I worked on while at Bravo Media in winter 2010. I created the opening titles, the background environment for the hosts (Andrew Garces and Tracy Wilbur), interstitial animations, other on-screen graphics, and even the music (Garageband!)
My role:
Motion graphics design, sound
Title:
Voice of Armenian Diaspora
opening titles
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc. > Undisclosed client
Description:
I was drafted to create opening titles for this Armenian-American show (not sure if it was for TV or the web).
My role:
Motion graphics design, 3D animation (Cinema 4D), compositing, sound effects
Title:
Baltimore Inner Harbor Revitalization Visualization
Date:
2011
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Cornish > The city of Baltimore
Description:
Tim Hunter Design contacted me about helping them visualize a pitch for a revitalization project for Baltimore's Inner Harbor area. What started off as a quick-and-dirty collage of Google Earth footage became a 3D animation (by 3D designer Kevin Harper) with visual effects done in After Effects by both myself and designer George Robbins.
My role:
Art direction, visual effects design (fountains, video projections), compositing
Title:
Child Alert: Afghanistan
Date:
2007
Client:
UNICEF
Description:
I created this animation to accompany UNICEF's multimedia report on Afghanistan.
My role:
Design, animation in Flash
Title:
Criminally Mindless Episode 2 Excerpt
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc.
Description:
This is a clip from a web show I worked on while at Bravo Media. I created the opening titles, the background environment for the host (comedian Chuck Nice) and lower third, and even did the music (thanks, Garageband!)
My role:
Motion graphics design, sound
Title:
Forest Maiden
Intro Chase Scene
Date:
2009
Client:
Personal
Description:
I was the art director for
Forest Maiden
, a play in the 2009 NYC Fringe Festival. This video was projected at the beginning of the performance, to introduce two of the characters.
My role:
Art direction, glitter forest creation, shooting the actors against greenscreen, compositing, title design
Title:
Cadillac
Business Unusual
banner ad 1
Date:
2011
Client:
Second Thought > Cadillac
Description:
I executed this banner ad for a promotional web show by Cadillac,
Business Unusual
.
My role:
Flash animation
Title:
ExxonMobil Carbon Capture commercial
Date:
2010
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Euro > ExxonMobil
Description:
This was one of several broadcast commercials for ExxonMobil that I worked on while at Tim Hunter Design.
My role:
Storyboard artist, motion graphics design, compositing
Title:
Spec animation for
Nolan's Run
Date:
2005
Client:
Documentary filmmaker Charles Hamilton
Description:
For his documentary on 3rd party presidential candidate Ryan Nolan, filmmaker Charles Hamilton was interested in including interstitial animations depicting other historical 3rd party candidates and the contexts that produced them. I created this segment on spec to illustrate the economic circumstances in 1924 that gave rise to presidential candidate Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette.
My role:
Artwork creation and animation
Title:
Nerd Rage
Interstitial Animation 2
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc.
Description:
I created this interstitial animation for a web show being produced by Bravo Media. The art direction of the series ended up changing, and my animations no longer fit the look of the series, but I am still quite fond of them.
My role:
Concept, motion graphics design
Title:
dPad Internal Promo
Date:
2006
Client:
Epson
Description:
Learning Worlds created this internal promotion for Epson's prototype e-reader, the dPad.
My role:
Concept design, illustration, animation and compositing
Title:
Fourplay: "Box" episode
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc.
Description:
This was one of the first projects I worked on while at Bravo Media in winter 2010. The show had already been shot and the logo already designed. I was tasked with using the logo to create opening titles, putting a background behind the greenscreen turntable shot of the product, as well as creating lower thirds and interstitial animations (complete with sound effects.)
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
Video projection from
Lizzie Borden
: Blood-spattered Marey birds
Date:
2009
Client:
Took an Axe Productions
Description:
There was a circular video projection screen center stage in the showcase production of
Lizzie Borden
. The projections were designed to look like Victorian-era multimedia technology, such as the Magic Lantern or shadow puppets. These are excerpts from different videos I created for projection for that screen.
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
Cadillac
Business Unusual
banner ad 2
Date:
2011
Client:
Second Thought > Cadillac
Description:
I executed this banner ad for a promotional web show by Cadillac,
Business Unusual
.
My role:
Flash animation
Title:
Trying Times (Remembered)
opening credits
Date:
2008
Client:
Pick Up Performance Co(s.)
Description:
When choreographer David Gordon was asked to remount "Trying Times," he chose to include video and imagery from the original 1982 production. Based on that "historical" footage, I created these opening credits, utilizing David's own handwriting.
My role:
Concept design, compositing in After Effects
Title:
Learning Worlds'
Tactics
animation
Date:
2006
Client:
Learning Worlds
Description:
When I was at Learning Worlds, we created a variety of animations in different styles to feature on our website to promote our capabilities.
My role:
Design, animation in Flash
Title:
SAP A1S CEO Animatic (excerpt)
Date:
2006
Client:
SAP
Description:
This was a segment of an internal animation created by Learning Worlds for software company SAP for their Business ByDesign (then called A1S) package.
My role:
I helped ink sketches by illustrator Michael Oberle, and composited and animated them in After Effects
Title:
Dream Sequences from
The Sweet, Sweet Motherhood
Date:
2010
Client:
Playright Jeremy Karaken
Description:
I did video projection design for this play, which debuted at HERE Arts Center in July 2010. I shot the content for these two videos on a Panasonic DVX100 (deliberately out of focus and blown-out). In the show, I projected on two giant pieces of semi-translucent white plastic sheeting, giving the images a soft, milky look.
My role:
I helped ink sketches by illustrator Michael Oberle, and composited and animated them in After Effects
Title:
ExxonMobil algae commercial
Date:
2010
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Euro > ExxonMobil
Description:
This was one of several broadcast commercials for ExxonMobil that I worked on while at Tim Hunter Design.
My role:
Storyboard artist, motion graphics design, compositing
Title:
iKnowThat.com phonics animation:
Cue
Date:
2001
Client:
iKnowThat.com
Description:
This animation was part of a interactive game to teach phonics, on iKnowThat.com, a children's educational website.
My role:
Illustration, animation in Flash
Title:
Child Alert: Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Date:
2006
Client:
UNICEF
Description:
I created this animation to accompany UNICEF's multimedia report on the impact of the African drought on children.
My role:
Design, animation in Flash
Title:
Unused telemetry studies for ExxonMobil carbon capture commercial
Date:
2008
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Euro > ExxonMobil
Description:
This is a study for on-screen data display that I created in the process of designing motion graphics for a commercial for ExxonMobil about their carbon capture initiative.
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
Unused telemetry studies for ExxonMobil algae commercial
Date:
2010
Client:
Tim Hunter Design > Euro > ExxonMobil
Description:
These are studies for on-screen data displays that I created in the process of designing motion graphics for a commercial for ExxonMobil about their algae initiatives.
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
SAP CRM product demo splash animation
Date:
2007
Client:
SAP
Description:
This splash animation kicked off an internal demo for SAP's Client-Relationship Management software. I was the lead artist on it.
My role:
Storyboarding, animation in 3D Studio Max, compositing and motion graphics in After Effects
Title:
Paper Doll of 1950's Pop Singer - Study in 3D
Date:
2007
Client:
Personal
Description:
An ongoing piece that I'm working on involves a pop singer from 1958 and a teen boy from 1983 who is obsessed with him. The teen boy creates a paper doll of the pop singer and paper maquettes of his world. These animations are studies for how a 2D paper doll might move in 3D.
My role:
Illustration, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging and animation
Title:
Chinese Lion Heads for Paramount Theater LED display
Date:
2010
Client:
Emerson College
Description:
Emerson College's Paramount Theater sits right at the apex of Boston's Chinatown. To celebrate this, Tim Hunter Design was commissioned to create an animation for the theater's LED window display (which THD also designed.) I researched the traditional Chinese New Year's lion dance and created this big, bright, playful animation for the windows.
My role:
Artwork, animation
Title:
Learning Worlds' "Back of the Napkin Strategizing" flipbook
Date:
2008
Client:
Learning Worlds
Description:
I created this flipbook-style series of sketches for a leave-behind promotional booklet for Learning Worlds. The gist of the promotion was that sometimes great business strategies start with a drawing or diagram on the back of a napkin.
My role:
Concept, illustration, compositing
Title:
Forest Maiden
Queen's Entrance
Date:
2009
Client:
Personal
Description:
I was the art director for
Forest Maiden
, a play in the 2009 NYC Fringe Festival. This video preceded the entrance of Queen Mary May on a magic carpet.
My role:
Art direction, glitter forest creation, shooting the actor against greenscreen, animation, compositing
Title:
Ask the Robot: Robot Revival
splash animation
Date:
2006
Client:
Personal
Description:
I created this splash animation for the website for the
Ask the Robot: Robot Revival
event, an evening of interactive, electronic artwork, curated by Meghan Trainor and Ophra Wolf.
My role:
Illustration, animation in Flash
Title:
Weekend Update: Russell Mindich edition (excerpt)
Date:
2010
Client:
UNICEF
Description:
One of the more random projects I worked on while at Bravo Media was a takeoff of SNL's
Weekend Update
that was to be shown at the Bar Mitzvah of the son of a television producer. I created motion graphics introducing various "spots," background environments for interviews shot against greenscreen, and lower thirds.
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
iKnowThat.com phonics animation:
Low
Date:
2001
Client:
iKnowThat.com
Description:
This animation was part of a interactive game to teach phonics, on iKnowThat.com, a children's educational website.
My role:
Illustration, animation in Flash
Title:
Beemac Load Gate Promo Excerpt
Date:
2005
Client:
Beemac
Description:
When I was working at Technical Learning Consultants, we created a series of Flash-animated demos for this invention by Beemac, a trucking company. The Load Gate is an alternative to the standard bars used to secure freight in trucks.
My role:
Design and animation in Flash using components from Swift 3D and Poser
Title:
Child Alert: Democratic Republic of Congo
Date:
2006
Client:
UNICEF
Description:
I created this animation to accompany UNICEF's multimedia report on the Democratic Republic of Congo
My role:
Design, animation in Flash
Title:
SAP Support Portfolio Sales Opportunity game
Date:
2008
Client:
SAP
Description:
This interactive game was distributed internally among SAP Account Executives to promote the SAP Support Portfolio.
My role:
Design, animation, coding in Flash
Title:
Bio Hazards
answering machine messages
Date:
2009
Client:
Sarah Elizabeth Greer
Description:
Adopted as a baby, Sarah Elizabeth Greer fantasized for years about who her biological mother might be. Then one day, she got a phone call... excerpted from Sarah Elizabeth's one-woman show,
Bio Hazards
My role:
Text animation
Title:
Video Projection for "Sweet Little Sister" from
Lizzie Borden
Date:
2009
Client:
Took An Axe Productions
Description:
Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt created a rock roadshow retelling of the bloody legend of America's first and favorite axe-wielding double-murderess and Victorian hometown girl, Lizzie Borden. I created video projections for two incarnations of the musical. The showcase production featured a large, circular projection screen, intended to mimic the look and feel of an old Victorian "magic lantern." For the song, "Sweet Little Sister," I created a fictional photo montage in the magic lantern style.
My role:
Motion graphics design
Title:
Learning Worlds promotional animation for SAP
Date:
2005
Client:
Learning Worlds
Description:
One of our major clients at Learning Worlds was software giant SAP. We created this promo animation specifically for them, centering around their annual Field Kick-off Meeting (FKOM.)
My role:
Design, animation in Flash
Title:
Pneumatic Flow in the Millenium M5 Oxygen Concentrator
Date:
2004
Client:
Respironics
Description:
I'm very proud of this series I created while at Technical Learning Consultants. The Millenium M5 is an oxygen concentrator that individuals with breathing difficulties would use in their home. The audience for this instructional demo is the repair people who service these machines.
My role:
Design, animation, coding in Flash
Title:
Who Wants to Live Forever?
animation excerpt
Date:
2010
Client:
Bravo Media, Inc. > Undisclosed client
Description:
A financial management company wanted a simple animation created for their annual holiday party. The animation would accompany a song which would be sung live; a spoof on Queen's
Who Wants to Live Forever
with the lyrics rewritten to comment on the fiscal crisis. Because their budget was so small, I went super-simple, trying to emulate Terry Gilliam's animations for Monty Python, but using stock imagery.
My role:
Design, animation
Title:
iKnowThat.com phonics animation:
Mine
Date:
2001
Client:
iKnowThat.com
Description:
This animation was part of a interactive game to teach phonics, on iKnowThat.com, a children's educational website.
My role:
Illustration, animation in Flash
Title:
Pleater Machine for Buff Wheels - Operation
Date:
2004
Client:
Schaffner
Description:
I created this instructional animation while at Technical Learning Consultants. TLC's goal was to help local manufacturers document their processes for computer-based training.
My role:
Design, animation, coding in Flash
Title:
Learning Worlds "Role: Product Manager" Animation
Date:
2006
Client:
Learning Worlds
Description:
I created this promotional animation for Learning Worlds by combining sketches and 2D elements that you might find in a desk at someone's office (yellow lined paper, paperclips, post-it notes) to illustrate LW's ability to create fresh business strategies using limited resources.
My role:
Concept design, artwork, animation in Flash
Title:
Secondary Video Projections for
Lizzie Borden
Date:
2009
Client:
Took an Axe Productions
Description:
The showcase production of Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt's rock musical, Lizzie Borden, featured two secondary projection screens stage left and right. In keeping with the Victorian theme, these projections were designed to look like shadow puppets lit by candlelight.
My role:
Design, animation in After Effects
Title:
Spacewatch spec animations
Date:
2009
Client:
Epson
Description:
At Learning Worlds, we created a series of spec animations for Epson showing a treatment for a possible promo for their Spacewalk watch (a fully mechanical watch which functions even in space.)
My role:
Based on a CAD model given to me by the watch's engineer, I textured, lit and animated the watch in 3D Studio Max
Title:
Video projection from
Lizzie Borden
: Blood-spattered Marey birds
Date:
2009
Client:
Took an Axe Productions
Description:
This short projection, based on the photographs of Étienne-Jules Marey, was projected in the showcase production of Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt's rock musical,
Lizzie Borden
. Birds and flight were a recurring theme in the piece.
My role:
Motion graphics design
