Friends and founders of GALS CLUB, a production / design agency here in LA hit me up to create some 3D avatars of themselves for their launch. "Something along the lines of claymation bobbleheads" is I think what they asked for. I did them one better, not only creating their bobbleheads in 3D but adding bodies to turn them into fully playable characters in their own game using Unreal Engine. Tons of fun.
UNINTERRUPTED came to me with a mixtape project - A series wherein NFL athletes and musicians / DJ's would come together and pick their favorites from artists in their respective cities, touching on the history of movements that became well-established genres. From LA hip hop to B-more club music to New York Drill, they covered the gamut of artists and scenes from east to west.
3M Oral Care hit us up for something informative that kids could watch while in the waiting room at dentist offices that wasn't boring, and we came back with this throwback claymation idea for talking animated teeth. I had my hand on all aspects of this project, including the concepting, writing, animating and performing (via Adobe’s amazing Character Animator).
Nike wanted something funky for the Kyrie 3 Heartbeat and we pitched them a full-on disco music video. I went about writing a disco track and then directed and edited it, doing all the animation as well, and with that, brought the funk.
I was inspired by the simple nostalgic romance of '80s Japanese series "Heart Cocktail" and wanted a similar vibe for the Toby Glider album promo, so Jacob Anderson set about making original illustrations that I delightfully animated. This was pure pleasure to make.
Nike wanted some long form content to air exclusively on their site for Air Max Day 2021, end enlisted Dom Roberts as the host. Her sense of humor and vibe lent itself well to the irreverent world we created as her backdrop, a mish-mash of blue screen public access vibes and early VR aesthetics filtered through LA culture, as she interviews Olympic athlete Vashti Cunningham and LA artist Umi.
Nike’s outdoorsy ACG brand wanted something to motivate NYC gen z kids to get outdoors, with a content series that was to be a guided nature journey, narrated by mother earth, through an irreverent series of challenges in the city. They asked us to film it all on 16mm, and we complied. Look at how those mushrooms turned out. This made me fall in love with film again.
The LA Dodgers came to us to concept and design a video booth and we came up with this idea of the virtual dugout -a combination of practical props (an exact recreation of the Dodgers dugout in the bleachers) and tech wizardry (allowing fans to pick any two players and have them appear next to them in the dugout). We directed 20 of the Dodgers players taking selfies and winking at the camera, which we then comped onto live footage from the dugout to the delight of the fans, who packed the experience from opening day averaging one fan per minute per game.
Nike wanted something that evoked Kyrie Irving's spiritual perspective on the world and his obsession with third eyes and numerology, specifically the number 11. So we came up with the idea of 'Kyrie-Vision', seeing through the lens of Kyrie, while showing off the eleven color ways of the Kyrie 6 shoe through different boroughs of New York that each evoke their own vibe and inspired shoe. It aired on 11/11/19.
3M VHB wanted a video to show how cool their tape was, and our team came up with the idea of a scooter held together completely by tape, no hardware. Given the dry character of our subjects, it took a mix of comic timing and dorky music to pull this one off.