Every year I get the incredible opportunity to work with the NBA on their All-Star weekends, where I am part of a team dedicated to capturing the unique spirit of each city and bringing it to life in the arenas. Our work includes designing graphics for exterior and interior screens, 360-degree rings wrapping around the stadium, and jumbotron visuals.
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State Farm All-Star Saturday Night logo animation
KIA Skills Challenge logo animation
Starry 3-Point Contest logo animation
AT&T Slam Dunk logo animation
Happy 60th Birthday Chuck!!! animation
Smoothie King Center - New Orleans, Louisiana
Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Canada
Barclays Center - Brooklyn, NY
Madison Square Garden - New York, NY
Google I/O, Google's annual developer conference in San Francisco, features an award show hosted by Google Play to celebrate 12 apps and games that deliver exceptional and imaginative user experiences. I contributed to designing the award show packages for 2016 and 2017. In 2016, we centered the design around the Google Play arrow, using triangle-inspired transitions and animated Android robots to illustrate nominee categories. For 2017, with more creative freedom, we introduced a low-poly, origami-inspired aesthetic and a new cast of 3D characters, including cavemen, zombies, and an astronaut named Arnie, to bring the show to life.
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We took Google Play assets and combined them with aspects from the show categories and created a Rube Goldberg roller coaster that an android robot would ride to open the show.
One caveman fights when others flee and the results are outstanding.
What seems like a tropical paradise turns into a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, this reality is virtual.
When her father leaves the room, this young android girl escapes to an underwater world.
Play "The Claw" and win a prize that lets you track your fitness, glance at alerts & messages, and ask Google for help - all on your wrist.
Arnie the astronaut goes on a space adventure that leads to a terrifying new discovery.
Watch the entire show.
Watch the entire show.
I had the pleasure of contributing to Macy's holiday windows in 2015 and 2016, each featuring unique themes. The 2015 windows celebrated the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas with The Peanuts gang, while the 2016 windows combined modern technology and nostalgic holiday themes, highlighted by intricate handmade frames and a 15-foot Santa Claus overlooking Broadway Plaza.
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The “Communication Station,” showcases Santa’s modern methods of connecting with children—from emails to YouTube videos—matching them with gifts that are magically sent through a gifting vortex to their delighted recipients.
Screen animations for the elves opening Santa's letters from children around the world.
An interactive vintage-style pinball machine celebrates NYC holiday traditions, where spectators can "play" by activating bumpers representing the Macy’s Parade, Rockefeller skating, and Times Square’s ball drop.
The “Family Tree,” celebrates togetherness with silhouetted scenes of human connection set within an illuminated crystal forest under a starry sky.
A golden reindeer with jeweled antlers highlights the beauty of giving, as 25 elves pass gifts to fill Santa’s sleigh in a crystalline snow-covered forest.
An oversized jewel box features Santa and Mrs. Claus dancing, celebrating love for family, friends, and the season, with an interactive “love” game to reveal if you’re “Naughty” or “Nice.”
The final window showcases Santa’s Christmas Eve preparations in a vibrant North Pole winter wonderland, set against a large LED screen counting down to Christmas.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with 3D scenes recreating six key moments from Charles Schultz's indelible cartoon classic.
I was fortunate to be part of the design and animation team for the introduction and walkthrough videos for Academy for Ads, Google’s e-learning platform for on-the-go advertising training. To make navigating the complex world of online advertising more approachable, we created fun, relatable characters that guided users through step-by-step tutorials, providing a friendlier and more engaging learning experience.
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Our Studio APA team collaborated with UNICEF to help spread awareness about the hunger crisis in Malawi. We chose to tell the story of 18 year old Shamim, a woman whose hometown was ravaged by a succession of severe droughts in 2015 and 2016, forcing her to sell sex to provide for her son, Junior.
We took on the difficult challenge of figuring out how to portray the sensitive contents of the story in a bold yet tasteful way. We approached the production with hardline themes of simplicity and subtlety to balance the graphic subject matter. The choice to remove facial expression and dialogue was made to make way for narrative and lyrics. We felt the song choice fit the emotion perfectly.
Our Studio APA team made this film "Rise" with A World at School for the #UpForSchool event in New York to mark the handing-in of 10 million petition signatures from around the world to the United Nations, calling for the right of every child to be in school. It tells the personal stories of three of A World at School's Global Youth Ambassadors and how they overcame the odds to get an education.
I worked with AWAS and the real life youth ambassadors (Ijeoma, Yaaseen and Mohammed), researching the details of their experiences to find a compelling way to weave their stories together.
The pre-production process started off with a photoshoot featuring three child actors. I then worked with our team to rotoscope the actors out and additional props (such as the wheelchair and the rifle) would be added in digitally. The elements would then be comped into a cg scene in post. Special thanks to Lecrae for allowing us to use his song. The beat and hook really brought the whole piece together.
A Studio APA production that wisps two women away to a neon universe full of adventure and danger. They explore the depths, run from otherworldly monsters and, finally, discover one another with transcending results. Another fun one to create.
I helped launch Google's Project Fi, "A new way to Say Hello" wireless experience, with a series of fun stop motion videos.
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Another service introduction video I was given the opportunity to work on. Please welcome, Yahoo Messenger!
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I helped design and animate intro videos for Dropbox For Business. To introduce the new service we went back to basics with a hand drawn whiteboard look making it easy for the user to follow.
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Blessed to have joined the Hearst Digital Media team to focus on the Esquire brand. We produced some amazing content for their website and social media platforms and I was fortunate enough to direct/edit a video shoot with Jonathan Van Ness from Netflix’s Queer Eye.
presented by Esquire
Worked on a bunch of fun animations for Ring.com. Also, fully produced a 15s animated social media spot for the Neighbors App.
Motion graphics, editing and sound design for Invesco.
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Design, illustration and 2D animation for Amazon Key for Business ad.
