2015 to Present Day
I currently work with Essence Cartoon, moving from Junior to Lead Animator, meaning that not only am I involved with production, but I'm also engaging directly with our clients, setting up documents, presentations, milestone and due dates for my team, and reviewing their work as completed for our many projects.
In my roles, I focus on Character Animation, the majority being Puppet or Rigs, but I also frequently work in Compositing through Adobe After Effects. Through this company, I have familiarized myself with Red Giant, Video Copilot, Cinema 4D (only a little bit) and a few other native Plugins
a KID NAMED BUG - TRAILER
2023
The YouTube Channel "A Kid Named Bug" was interested in creating an animated Episode to their series, changing their young cast into Looney-toon styled characters
This was not just treated as a test to dip their feet into these waters, since their own studio has not had a whole lot of animation experience, they plan to return to our company to commission a whole episode
(Client wanted creative control over sound design, so this was our delivered raw version)
My Role : Cleanup/Color animation, Composite Artist, Project Lead
DELMONICO STEAKHOUSE
2023
A few simple motion graphic Assets for Delmonico Steakhouse's social media accounts
My Role : Composite Artist, Motion Graphics
OOMPH App Promo
2022
A simple Ad for the launch of the Oomph app, a service aimed at assisting elderly care homes
My Role : Composite Artist
SIGND
2022
We created a few dozen different Mobile content, templates and GIFS for the Signd personal gifting service, primarily for their website launch
My Role : Composite artist, Animatior/Motion Graphics
Universal Music Group - Holiday Graphics
2022
Created 3 different sets of motion graphic templates in various aspect ratios for Universal Studio's Music division, we only had made a preview set for ariana grande while also using Lady Gaga products, however the intention was to give them the frame work of the animation so they could quickly swap out photos and assets so they can be used for dozens of artists
Meant to be used on mobile platforms primarily
My Role : Composite artist
CAPSER
2022
And animation that is planned to be presented at the 12Th annual AmDocs Film Festival 2023
My Role : Composite artist, 3D Animation (C4d and element 3d)
Various Spotify/Music Album Canvases
2022
For these clients we took some various album artwork and doing some composite work, some used for the artist's Spotify pages
Some took a bit of photoshop work as well, since many were sent to us as flat, single layer images, so doing some fancy layering effects took an extra step of work. (for example, the Mt. Joy render needed some layering to pull of the blinking creatures, since it started as a flat image)
My Role: Composite Artist
"LEAD LLAMA"
2022
A pretty straightforward ad, but a bit of challenge, this client was in the process of starting this business from scratch, so they hadn't figured out their visual style for their branding yet. They had no website and not too much material to work with at that point in time, so a lot of the visual style was up to us and our team
My Role : Character Rigger and Animator Composite Artist
"SUSAN DAVID - EMOTIONAL AGILITY"
2021
In coordination with Relavox Studios and MOCCA Studios, we had developed several dozen small animated clips to be integrated with live action talks and lectures from Susan David, an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. These videos serve as an extension of her book, "Emotional Agility"
Note: Per contract, I did not have access to their live footage, nor did I have samples of how our animations were integrated in with the live action clips, here to the left are some of my own favorite highlights
My Roles : Composite Artist, Project Lead
"TRIPLE SQUAD LEAGUE"
2020
Our client wanted to make his kids into Superheroes! He commissioned us to make a pilot for his own cartoons series, one of my favorites to produce
My Roles : Character Animation of the Villain and his Monkey ONLY, Rigging all Characters. Composite Artist, Project Lead
BeeNeat - Dog Stepladder
2020
A short animation, advertising a must-have stepladder tool for any dog owner. Pretty standard stuff, however animating a 4 legged character going into a car was very difficult!
My Roles : Character Rigging, Sole Character Animator
MILITANTZ
2020-2021
MILITANTZ, a rapper, regularly commissions Essence Cartoon to help with his online presence with his music content. Our videos would include full music videos, along with content for his Instagram and his Spotify presence
My Roles : Character Animator, Composite Artist
SINCERE GIFTS - GHOST DROPS
2019
One of our many Music Video projects, this was one of my favorites. Not just because the music is in my taste, but it was also very fun to work on. The neon light outline effects on the characters was quite a challenge, had to knock out the fill colors from the rigs manually, frame by frame
My Roles : Character Rigging, Character Animator, Composite Artist, Project Lead
IWREK TWINS - KUMBAYAH
2018
The Iwrek Twins, a pair of actual twins who also happen to be rappers, commissioned us to make a very politically charged music video. To me it was great to be a part of, I think the twins were really devoted to making art with a deeper purpose
My Roles : Character Rigger, Character Animator, Composite Artist
CENTRIA : DEMYSTIFIYNG AUTISM
2019
A smaller part of a larger series that Centria was developing, mostly comprising of live action docu-series/interviews with real patients
Was cool to be a part of, even just dipping my toes into this made me realize that there was a lot about Autism that I was not aware of and did not understand, from person to person it can be varied and complex
My Roles : Character Rigger, Character Animator
UNOFFICIAL "NEED TO KNOW" MACKLEMORE FT. CHANCE THE RAPPER MUSIC VIDEO
2018
One of our clients was interested in opening their boundaries to animation, as he operated his own production studio but mostly dealt in live action music videos. He wanted to try something new, and added this unofficial video to their catalog
My Role ; All on me, Solo Project
KYLE CHAPPLE - "KYLE SELFIE"
2018
Back in the day, Kyle Chapple had first contacted the studio because he was interested in making a name for himself as a voice actor. In order to do that, he wanted to bolster his online presence with brand new, original animation content. Posted here was one of the ones I personally was involved with.
As time went on, Kyle landed different new voice roles, including Bethesda's "Doom : Eternal" game, so needless to say I think Essence was very successful in helping him achieve his dreams!
My Roles : Character Rigger, Character Animator