All forms of design that moves,
from title design to character animation.
Bullied Title Sequence
Jul 20 2010
Title Design/ Visual FX: Documentary
The Southern Poverty Law Center/ Bill Brummel Productions
Bullied, is a documentary covering the true story of a kid in a small town in Wisconsin who endures years of bullying in school for being gay.
The title sequence went through a couple different incarnations over the length of the process. Luckily a lot of the back and forth was very limited because the Director, Bill Brummel, knew what he was looking for enough that it made a very clear target to hit, with a lot of creative room to push things.
Under The Corset: Rasputina Title Sequence
Jun 22 2010
Title Design/ Animation: Feature Documentary
Rasputina/ Dawn Micelli
Almost a year in the making! The first official documentary on the cello-driven goth band, Rasputina [ http://www.rasputina.com/ ] is coming out soon, and as part of the finishing touches, I was brought on to do the title sequence.
The movie was shot by Dawn Micelli, of the infamous Dawn and Drew Show [ http://dawnanddrew.com/ ], as a behind the scenes documentary while she went on tour with the band through 2009. As you can hear from the initial telephone call that was actually used in the title sequence, Dawn even pitched the idea with the title, 'Under the Corset' in mind.
'Through the Wormhole' Visual FX
Jun 10 2010
Illustration/ Design/ Visual FX/: Television Show
Incubator/ Revelations/ Science Channel
Here is the final installment of work I did on the Science Channel Mini-series, 'Through the Wormhole, with Morgan Freeman'. I've already updated storyboards and animated sequences.
This last body of work are Visual Effects I did, specifically for an episode on Dark Matter. It was mostly designing and compositing objects into live action, with a bit of diagram design thrown in as well.
'Through the Wormhole' Animated Sequences
Jun 09 2010
Illustration/ Character Animation: Television Show
Incubator/ Revelations/ Science Channel
Tonight is the premier of "Through the Wormhole, with Morgan Freeman", on the Science Channel. It is an 8 part series that focuses on the mysteries of the Universe and how we use science to investigate and attempt to answer them. For this series, my contributions were diverse, from live action Storyboards to Visual Effects.
A large part of the work I created were animated clips to help illustrate some of the scientific concepts. When I was originally brought in my first instinct was to go for an early 1960s modern animation style -- with a definite hand-drawn, traditionally character-animated look to it. These are scattered over a few different episodes of the series. Keep an eye out. Until then, you can see them all right here!
Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side IV
Jun 01 2010
Animation/ Visual FX: Web Series
Ghost Whisperer/ CBS
Wanting to wait for all the episodes of the Fourth Season of Ghost Whisperer to end, I'm finally making an update featuring the Visual Effects I did for the show. This does not cover the practical, on-set special effects that I did, although some of those are seen here when they needed to be digitally manipulated.
All the work you find here was a part of the Ghost Whisperer webisode series, 'The Other Side IV', and can all be watched HERE.
Human Animal Titles
May 20 2010
Illustration/ Title Design/ Animation: Television Show
Incubator/ Animal Planet
This is a pilot for Animal Planet that focuses on the animal-like behavior of humans. Humans AS animals. Human Animal. GET IT? DO YOU?
The concept I approached for the title, was to do a sort of a play off of Leonardo Divinci's Vitruvian Man. Draw a human figure that then transforms into various animal parts.
"Three of Change" Logo ID
Apr 23 2010
Animation: Production Company ID
Three of Change
One of the fantastic clients I am pleased to work with regularly is the Washington DC design firm, Three of Change. This latest call from them was for my take on a treatment of their own logo.
The interesting thing about this company is that under their professional broadcast appeal, is a hard core of PUNK ROCK.
Anxious
Apr 12 2010
Title Design/ Animation: Television Show
Three of Change/ Discovery Science Channel
This was a quick job for a new show described to me as an 'anxiety' version of 'hoarders'. Sounds compelling.
This was a super-fast turnaround and they knew exactly what they wanted for the title: a less-is-more concept of white on black. Focusing on the idea that it would be hand made and rough, instead of using a font, the text was hand written. It was important to me to get a lot of texture out of the type, because it would be the only visible element on the screen. For that I drew all of the letters, and many variations of which, on paper towels. Making sure to make the marks slowly, the ink bled very well.
Flying Heroes
Mar 27 2010
Title Design/ Animation: Feature Film
Audience Alliance
Back in 2008, Spain created their own animated treasure: the feature film "Cher Ami... ¡y yo!". It is based off of the true story of a carrier pigeon, Cher Ami, who successfully delivered a crucial message that helped save the lives of a number of troops.
Well, now that movie is coming to the good old U S of A and is being repackaged with a new title and a new title sequence and I'm in charge of the latter.
What on Earth?
Mar 04 2010
Title Design/ Animation: Television Show
Three of Changee/ Discovery Science Channel
This was a call for the titles of an ongoing series for Discovery's Science Channel. It's sort of a repackaging show, where prior content that was used in other shows or not used at all is re-cut and made to look new under a vaguely topical show title - which changed over and over again.
That description sounds a lot worse than it it, as it is all very interesting stuff!
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