VISUAL STORYTELLING AND ANIMATION
New Looney Tunes (wabbit) “The Game Is A Foot” - Warner Bros
Episode Animatic. I co-wrote this episode with the show runners from an outline, and created the storyboard. This was timed to dialogue by editorial. (Toon BoomStoryboard Pro)
Sanjay and Craig “Fart Baby” - Nickelodeon
Episode Animatic. I co-wrote this episode with my director from an outline. This is one of my sequences. Timed to dialogue by editorial. (Toon BoomStoryboard Pro)
MAD - “Wimpy Vikings” - Warner Bros. Animation
Based on MAD Magazine, this Cartoon Network series was pitched and executed as a Robot Chicken for kids. I was a Story Director, and typically created animated storyboards to provide animation direction for the several short clips we produced.
Occasionally, I would be given a script to take to broadcast-ready completion on my own. I was given freedom to do design, animation, sound design, editing, and compositing entirely by myself. This level of ownership is rare in TV production, which is usually a collaborative pipeline-driven process. I was responsible for everything you see in this clip. (Adobe Animate, AfterEffects)
MAD “The Adventures of Tauntaun” - Warner Bros.
Animatic for a movie parody segment. I created the visuals, timed the dialogue and did the sound design. A TV Show or Movie parody was the tentpole of each episode. Story Directors were tasked with creating a three-minute color animatic in five days from a script and temp dialogue. All visuals had to be created from scratch and were to provide animation as well as design direction for production. (Adobe Flash/Animate)
MAD “X-Games First Class” - Warner Bros.
Animatic for a movie parody segment. I created the visuals, timed the dialogue and did the sound design. (Adobe Flash/Animate)
MAD “Everything’s Better With Ninjas” - Warner Bros.
MAD episodes were comprised of several stand-alone segments ranging from ten seconds to three minutes in length. Like the parody segments above, we would launch with a script and temp dialogue, but we were given free reign to develop our own art direction and animation for segments that had no specific identity attached. I created the visuals, timed the dialogue and did the sound design for this animatic. (Adobe Flash/Animate)
EPCOT Food Festival - Noble / Disney
This was part of a larger campaign promoting an annual event at Walt Disney World resort. I did the character animation in Adobe Animate based on Eric Goldberg’s storyboards and designs.
Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Ticket to Rod” - Cartoon Network
Responsible for sequence layout, character & prop animation, and lipysnc. (Adobe Flash/Animate)
These are the final animation takes without fine editing, music or sound effects. Placeholders for missing assets or storyboard panels are visible in some shots.
Animators followed storyboard beats, and there was a specific style of timing to follow, but we had freedom in expressing the animation performance.
The Ricky Gervais Show “Animal People” - HBO
Responsible for sequence layout, character & prop animation, and lipysnc. (Adobe Flash/Animate)
This show provided animated visuals to the pre-existing podcast from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Carl Pilkington. The directive was to not let the animation upstage the dialogue, so we focused on subtle movements and supported the lipsync with more mouth shapes than usual.
These are the final animation takes without fine editing, music or sound effects.
Ultraman Teaser - Warner Bros.
I re-created the classic oil-on-water effect of the Ultra-Q and Ultraman title sequence entierely in AfterEffects for a series I pitched based on the original 1966 Tokusatsu series.
El Sabor del Peligro - Student Film
This is a film I created in the MFA program at USC.
Netflix Spec Ads - Good N Proper
For a decade or so before becoming a streaming service, Netflix would send physical DVDs through the mail using a subscription model. Not having to return videos to a store after a couple days was considered disruptive. These spec ads were commissioned by Good N Proper after seeing my student film, Crimenals. Done in AfterEffects with re-appropriated picture and sound.