SOCIAL MEDIA ELEMENTS

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 2018

Hired by the California Democratic Party to create motion graphics for their Blue Wave initiative. Animations existed in different aspect ratios to apply to different uses. Projects included, Obama rally speech kinetic typography, lower thirds, Logo reveal and animation, ‘Mailboxes’ typography, Blue Wave winning candidate animations, Instagram stories animations

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SUNDANCE INSTITUTE, 2017

Sundance approached me about creating a series of advertisements to be used for television, film, web, and social media. They wanted something that would align with their web site direction, including color treatments and glitchy video. One of the challenges of making this was to make several still images work in an animated sequence. I shot my own video of palm trees, LA skyline and the ACE Theatre to avoid any overhead from stock image companies. To get a video glitch effect to work in time with the music, I used VDMX and recorded the effects in real time. This software is generally used by video artists for live performances.

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YU+CO, 2016
Created style frames and assets based on client and storyboards. Worked with 3D artist in the generating parts accurate to Chrysler’s vehicles

ASCENSION

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2014

Initially I was asked to simply create a logotype for SyFy Channels new Ascension space drama. The show follows a society that has been in space since the 60s. After the quick approval of my designs, I was asked to animate the logotype, and other elements including lighting up the United States flag.

GODZILLA

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2014

This project started as a simple title over picture. I wanted to create something more, but Kyle Cooper could not allocate time for me to explore ideas. At home, over the course of a few days, I created rough boards that encapsulated the ideas of dinosaurs surviving mass extinction, clandestine coverup, and nuclear weopon testing. It was inspired by a scene in the original 1954 Godzilla and a United States journal called, The Effects of Nuclear War. We presented my idea to Gareth Edwards as an idea he might be interested in and he green lighted it immediately. This title sequence inspired him to reshoot one scene to be consistent with the opening title.

RATPAC ENTERTAINMENT

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2014

Based on a very loose sketch by Kyle Cooper. The logo reveal was to be as dynamic as the movies that followed. I provided Cinema 4D models, 3D cameras, animation direction, and lighting concepts.

SARASOTA FILM FEST

SARASOTA FILM FEST, 2008

Created a 30 second commercial to be broadcast on local television stations. Graphics were supplied by the Sarasota Film Fest art director and their contract illustrator. Many art elements in this piece were unavailable or flattened, so I generated them based on the given psd files. An example of this would be the animated rabbit, the mermaid, the tank, and marquees.

SARASOTA FILM FEST

SARASOTA FILM FEST, 2006

Created a 30 second commercial to be broadcast on local television stations. Graphics and footage were supplied by the Sarasota Film Fest art director.

DAWN OF THE DEAD

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2004

This title sequence is the combination of three designers’ concepts. We mixed supplied scenes of television anchors, politicians, zombies, and real news with our own footage of gnashing teeth, broken glass, cardiograph blips, 3D news graphics, and melting type.

ANGELS IN AMERICA

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2003

Kyle Cooper and I looked at several ‘Word’ prints, drawings and paintings from Ed Ruscha’s collection, They Called Her Styrene, as typographic inspiration for this dramatic trailer. We chose audio from a courtroom scene featuring Al Pacino, and highlighted words that would resonate with the theme of the series.

HP YOU

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2003 & 2004

Created the typographic theme for HP commercials. This was done by elaborating on ads provided by an already intact vision for the brand. The type was originally centered in bordered frames and would reveal based on the camera’s position. This evolved into typography that would split apart at the borderless frame edges.

GHOST HOUSE PICTURES

PROLOGUE FILMS, 2003

Commisioned by Sam Raimi, we created a logo and logotype based on Kyle Cooper’s animated vision of a skeleton revealed through a keyhole. This idea was inspired by Sam Raimi’s campy sincere horror movies like Evil Dead.