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Kyocera

One of the Kyocera phones in this spot opened lengthwise to reveal a full keyboard. The opening and closing motion resembled a butterfly, and that became the inspiration for the creative concept. The primary goal was to create a campaign that emphasized human connection over technical specs. That led to the use of watercolors, paper, pen and ink. Role: Creative Direction, Live Action Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

Chili's Baby Back Ribs

Chili’s created new BBQ flavors inspired by various regional specialties throughout the American South. To illustrate the variety, we envisioned a fun filled road trip, complete with side trips, roadside diners and great friends, all captured with snap shots later assembled into a memorable scrapbook of the journey. This spot was shot over two days on-location in Prague and the surrounding countryside. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

How I Met Your Mother

I designed and directed the opening title sequence for How I Met Your Mother, including logo design. I posted a few of the alternate logo explorations. I also shot still photos for a lot of the background elements using a Lomo camera and a bunch of extras that we had meet us at a local bar. This was the fifth or sixth show open that I had worked on with the same studio creative team, all of the other shows having been canceled after either only a few episodes or never making it out of pilot stage. Luckily this show broke that string of bad luck. Role: Design, Art Direction, Photography. Produced by Blind.

LA Marathon

The main goal of this ad was to show a variety of runners and iconic Los Angeles locations. We shot the runners on green-screen and then used a variety of real watercolor textures and footage to create the final effect. Honda sponsored the event for many years and reused this ad for several years in a row. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

Fuse Network ID

For this set of network ID’s created for Fuse TV, we were tasked by the clients to create pretty much whatever we wanted, as long as it contained the words “Fuse Original Programming” and was 10 seconds long. Role: Design, Art Direction, Photography. Produced by Blind.

Pringles

This was a pretty complicated sequence to choreograph, because we wanted the whole spot to be seamless and we had a lot of content to fit into 30 seconds. There was also small dogs and kids and a curved dolly track and a Technocrane to fit in. The car was created almost entirely in CG animation, except for the seats and the steering wheel, which were real Mini Cooper parts. We built the platform for the actors to accurate scale. We made a few pre-vis test sequences using stand-ins and temp animations to help map out the timing and blocking of the overall sequence. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

Fitbit

Introducing the new Fitbit Flex and Fitbit Charge models! These announcement videos were designed to highlight the latest features of the new models, such as the new Flex being more fashion forward than previous Fitbit trackers and the updated Charge model includes many new advanced features. Shot on-location in Venice, Santa Monica and west Los Angeles. Role: Creative Director, Co-Director. Produced by Los York.

Google Nexus

Series of three Google Nexus Launch ads created to announce the latest models. All three of these new products were still in development at the time that we produced these spots, so we modeled them and created the ads entirely in 3d using Maya. We also had the opportunity to explore design ideas for a Nexus end tag logo animation for which I designed several style frames. In the end, a much simpler logo reveal was used. Role: Co-Creative Direction, Design. Produced by Brand New School.

Russell Athletic

Featuring the professional sports uniforms created by Russell Athletic, we created several mini moments of sports intensity featuring elements of football, basketball and baseball games. Each sport required a whole new cast, set elements and props, yet had to maintain the consistent look and feel of the campaign. Animated sound waves and particles integrated in post further severed to bring the tension, focus and intensity of the moments to life. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design, Edit. Produced by Blind.

Verizon Pillars

The concept for this spot was a single continuous flowing sequence where characters interact with an ever-changing environment, reinforcing the idea of seamless integration. The actors were shot on green-screen with minimal set pieces and props, and everything else was built in post as 3D CG animation. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

Oppenheimer Funds

Working from the tag line "What do you want your numbers to add up to?" the concept was to build an entire world from financial data: the people, the environments, everything. At the end of each spot, we see the animating numbers finally resolve into the real life rewards of making wise investments over a lifetime. Live action shot on location in the Czech Republic and on a gigantic green-screen stage in Prague. Editing at Blind in Santa Monica and animation by Nathan Love in New York. Final composite at Absolute Post in New York. Role: Creative Direction, Live Action Direction. Produced by Blind.

MF Global

I directed a series of commercials for MF Global built around silhouettes of people shot against green-screen, composited with footage representing financial data, global markets, and commodities. The sequences were stitched together with seamless transitions to convey the scope and connectivity of the firm's worldwide operations. Role: Creative Direction, Live Action Direction. Produced by Blind.

AT&T

For this AT&T spot, we needed to include a short clip of a 'viral' YouTube video, so rather than license existing footage, we shot our own video of a dog on a skateboard. This is the director's cut; the broadcast version is 60 seconds with additional offer details. Role: Creative Direction, Direction, Design. Produced by Blind.

First National Bank

A series of spots for First National Bank’s 150th anniversary. First National Bank is based in Omaha, and we shot several actual bank employees, customers and local leaders including the Mayor of Omaha for these spots. The look and design elements we created for these spots was so well received by the bank marketing team, that they decided to extend that design language to all of their print materials, billboards, web ads and even limited edition 150 year anniversary credit cards. Role: Creative Direction, Direction. Produced by Blind.

Asgrow

We spent of lot of time in research and development to get the CG plants to look like they were growing in a realistic and accurate fashion for this :30 spot for Asgrow brand soybean seeds. The target audience is soybean farmers, and they would know if it looked wrong. Shot on location at a soybean farm in Missouri and at the Asgrow research labs just outside of St. Louis. Role: Creative Direction, Direction. Produced by Blind.

hexeosis

hexeosis began as an independent visual art practice built around looping animation, geometry, color, rhythm and repetition.

hexeosis client work

Album covers, music videos, logo animation, live visuals and other custom pieces for musicians, labels and independent clients.

hexeosis products

Direct-to-collector digital editions, stickers, a Kickstarter campaign for a 30-minute animated video and immersive works.