Awe-Full Client Work
2023

Another great year of sophisticated and fun title designs as well as performance backgrounds and signage.

Freelance work
2023- 2024

Roku has truly been a dream client to work with. I was already a huge fan of the brand and their service for years. And then they were just great to create work for, always responsive and intuitive in their asks and critiques. The most fun I had with Roku was definitely in creating the motion design for the NewFront event in May 2024. After building up a great working relationship, they entrusted me alone to pull off the animation and look of the titles on screen behind the speakers. It was a lot of hard work but so much fun. I was able to be on site for the event itself, which was very rewarding. Thanks to help of a great production team and a lot of rehearsing, everything went beautifully without a single mistake or missed queue. You can view the sizzle reel I created for the event here. I hope to continue working with Roku long into the future.

Awe-Full Client Work
2022

This year for the Upfront Summit, I had the pleasure of not just designing the title screens and some performance backgrounds but also a great deal of the print signage and event decor designs. It was a fun, all-service project that allowed us to keep everything within the same design standards and philosophy.

Awe-Full Client Work
July- October 2018

Awe-Full Client Work
July 2022

Awe-Full Client Work
June 2018

Awe-Full Client Work
June 2018

Ongoing Awe-Full Client Work
May 2018- Present

Awe-Full Client Work
January 2020

Last year, the work we did for Upfront Summit 2019 was my “one of my favorite projects to date.” Well, this year’s work has far surpassed that. Like last year, we pitched several ideas to fit along with the location of the 2020 summit— The Rose Bowl Stadium. Coincidentally, the summit was occurring here on the year of the 100th anniversary of the building of the stadium. We settled on a visual style that merged modern icon design with art deco and art nouveau aesthetics. This combined the way the world looked and felt in the 1920s with the way it is now.

In addition to doing the title screens for the main stage during this event, we also had the privilege of designing screens for the ribbon and jumbotron of the stadium (not pictured here) which was a cool perk!

For more information on Upfront Summit, visit their website here.

Awe-Full Client Work
2018- 2019

This project was a long labor of love that was a lot of fun to create. The video was made for multiple fundraising events throughout the past year. The video would play on screen while live performers and music would take place on the stage.

You can see more of the events and learn about the Ubuntu Pathways organization on their website here.

Awe-Full Client Work
January 2019

This is one of my favorite projects to date. We pitched a few different ideas to fit along with the theme of camping for the 2019 Upfront Summit. They ended up going with our favorite concept focusing on illustration inspired by Boy Scout merit badges. I designed all of the badges and the title screens and did all of the animations. The client ended up liking the work so much that they re-designed much of the other aspects of the conference, such as name badges, pamphlets, and menus, to look more like the title animations.

This project also came with its own challenge in an unconventional window to work in for our essential elements. As you will see in the first two images here, the top corners of the screen were completely covered by the sides of the tent that this conference took place in. The bottom center of the screen was also slightly obstructed by the placement of the chairs for the interviews and panel discussions.

For more information on Upfront Summit, visit their website here.

Ongoing Client Work
August 2020

Here is a series of lyric music videos I made for London-based artist FJ Law. The cover art was illustrated by Chelsea Carpenter. She reached out to me to add motion to her work and create lyric animations as well.

Ongoing Commissioned Works
December 2016- Present

You can listen to Afro Jim here!
You can listen to Colton Cox here!
You can listen to Messy Frets here!
You can listen to Scruffy & the Janitors here!

You can also check out Colton’s show Hot Wax Hotline, which I designed and animated the opening title for here, featuring an interview with Messy Frets (they even gush about yours truly at the 24:50 mark!)

Awe-Full Client Work
October 2018

This was a really fun project and a welcome change from animation for a couple weeks. The top box design is the final that Johnson’s went with. Included here are some of the other boxes that made it to the final round as well as some of my favorite illustrations that didn’t quite make it (though we tried our damnedest to get that duck-boat design to work).

The final three photos featured weren’t taken or edited by me but I wanted to include some shots of the product from the Johnson’s website. You can also buy any of their bubble bin bundles here.