Title: Space Cadet
Type: Feature FIlm
Year: forthcoming
Client: Outsider Films
Role: Motion graphics
Summary: For this film, directed by musician/DJ Eric San (aka Kid Koala). I was tasked with designing and animating many screen elements for the film Working alongside designers Lillian Chan and Cori Merell. We created so many of these screens that the team describes them as a film within a film.
Title: Deltron 3030
Type: Live Visuals
Year: 2023
Client: Deltron 3030
Role: 2D animation
Summary: Kid Koala, a member of Deltron 3030 reached out to me to ask if I could help create visuals for Deltron 3030’s live shows. We worked together to come up with a backdrop of a glitchy sci-fi interface that follows the themes of Del’s lyrical subject matter.
Title: Le Panoptique
Type: Poster
Year: 2022
Client: Panorama Cinema
Role: Design, 3D modelling
Summary: Poster designed for an online animation screening.
Title: Big Fight In Little Chinatown
Type: Feature film
Year: 2022
Client: Eyesteel Film
Role: 3D animation
Summary: Directed by Karen Cho, I once again worked alongside Fred Casia on this feature length documentary. The film focuses on the history and future of Chinatowns in North America and the pressures they are currently facing.
Title: Why Is Europe So Hard On Big Tech
Type: Editorial
Year: 2021
Client: New York Times
Role: 3D Illustration
Summary: Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.
Title: Toronto Geometry Colloquium
Type: Poster design
Year: 2021
Client: Toronto Geometry COlloquium
Role: 3D Illustration
Summary:
Title: Hopeless
Type: Music Video
Year: 2021
Client: Ryan Bourne
Role: conception, 3D animation, directing
Summary: Musician Ryan Bourne came to me with a loose concept for a music video about a post apocalyptic world. We jammed on some ideas and I eventually asked my friend Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (aka Shonee) to help out. Essentially I created the first half of the film, a grim apocalyptic fly over, and Shonee created the more colourful and alive world mad up of incandescent alien flora.
Title: Impossible Figures I
Type: Short Film
Year: 2020
Client: National Film Board
Role: 3D animation, 3D modelling, effects
Summary: Impossible Figures is a short film directed by Polish director Marta Pajek. I created many 3D environments and particle effects that had a hand drawn look. Marta then took these scenes and would add her own finishing touches to them to integrate them into her world.
Title: Vaccines Need Affective Messengers
Type: Illustration
Year: 2020
Client: New York Times
Role: 3D animation, conception,
Summary: Animated Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.
Title: The Orchid & The Bee
Type: VR project
Technique: Stop-motion
Year: 2019
Client: National Film Board
Role: Stop-motion animation, digital effects
Summary: Frances conceived of this amazing VR concept using stereoscopic stop motion animation. I assisted Frances with the stop moiton animation and also helped create special effects for the final VR peice.
Title: The Junction: A-Trak & Nick Catchdubs
Type: Short Film
Technique: After Effects
Year: 2017
Client: Redbull Music Academy
Role: 3D animation, conception, writing, directing
Summary: Short film commissioned by Red Bull Music Academy & Booooooooom.com as part of their Junction series. This film follows a conversation between legendary DJ’s A-Trak and Catchdubs. I was hired to create a short film and I asked my friend and colleage Josh Holinaty to help me in creating this world. Josh provided many playful illustrated elements while I created the 3D world and animated effects. The turnaround on this was very fast, along the journey of coming up with the concept I landed on creating a contunous camera movement that would take us through the inside of the minds of A-Trak and Catchdubs, showing us their magical internal world.
Title: Sommets Signal Film
Type: Short Film
Technique: After Effects
Year: 2017
Client: Les Sommets du cinema d’animation
Role: 3D animation, directing, conception,
Summary: In 2017 I was given carte blanche to create a signal film for Les Sommets du cinema d’animation. I created this short film about a character creating an avatar for a game. My main hope was to create something that would reveal more upon repeated viewing, by adding layers of obfuscated information in a very short timeframe.
Title: How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
Type: Illustration
Year: 2017
Client: New York Times
Role: animation, conception,
Summary: Animated Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.
Title: Please Prove You Are Not A Robot
Type: Illustration
Year: 2017
Client: New York Times
Role: Illustration, conception
Summary: Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.
Title: Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain
Type: Public art project
Year: 2015
Client: New York Times
Role: conception, 3D animation, 2D animation
Summary: My first animated illustration for the New York Times. Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain
Title: Ecostation 2
Type: Public art project
Year: 2015
Client: Edmonton Arts Council
Role: compositing, conception, photography, project management, sculpture
Summary: After the success of my first project with the Edmonton Arts Council they asked me if I could create a new version for another new Ecostiation. This time I took landscape photos on the east coast of Canada.
Title: Just A Reflektor
Type: Interactive project
Year: 2013
Client: AATOAA
Role: compositing, animation, digital effects
Summary: The interactive project, Just A Reflektor, directed by Vincent Morisset. Vincent proposed a concept to Google Create Labs to create a website where visuals on a website could be manipulated by using a smartphone like a controller. I was happy to help in the early stages to visualize the ideas of the creative team and occasionally suggest ideas. I also helped with compositing and effects on the final video output. The result was a very dense interactive video helmed by the AATOAA team.
Title: Fruithunters
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2012
Client: Eyesteel Film
Role: compositing, animation, visual effects
Summary: This film by Director Yung Chang was no typical documentary. From the beginning they wanted to incorporate a playful approach to documentary, incorporating historical recreations, miniatures and animation. My colleague Fred Casia and I were involved early on to create animation, visual effects. We worked with many techniques, including stop motion, 3D tracking and 2D animation.
Title: Flux Outside
Type: Album cover
Year: 2011
Client: The Royal Bangs
Role: conception, photography, sculpture
Summary: I was asked by the Royal Bangs to create an image for their album the Flux Outside. They came to me with the idea of creating a French chalet and I ran with it, coming up with the idea of creating a cross-section diorama like world mostly out of paper. While I do a lot of work digitally, I wanted to challenge myself on this one do do all effects in camera.
Title: Wildlife
Type: Short FIlm
Year: 2011
Client: National Film Board
Role: compositing
Summary: Summary: It was my pleasure to assist Wendy and Amanda with compositing on this film. Each frame was hand painted by them, but in some cases elements had to be meticulously cut out frame by frame and then composited together to create a full image.
Title: Ecostation
Type: Public art project
Year: 2010
Client: Edmonton Arts Council
Role: compositing, conception, photography, project management, sculpture
Summary: in 2010 I was commisioned to create 5 images for a public art piece. These 5 images were printed super large scale and affixed to the cladding of the Ecostation in Edmonton Alberta.
Title: Batmilk
Type: Short Film
Year: 2009
Client: National Film Board
Role: 2D Animation, directing, conception,
Summary: