This is a project that I'm very proud of. I was in the initial meetings of what the storyline was going to be about. Helped with all of the initial storyboarding on the project, came up with the character designs, did all of the video editing, and also lended my hand for a fair amount of VFX including lots of roto work, background replace, color correction and more.

Here you'll find some of my original concept sketches as well as the final design artwork sent to the studio in LA that created the outfit for our actress. The storyboards are select shots from the overall plan just to see how closely we were actually able to get to my vision. I also included the mock movie poster for this project for us to hang up in the office as well as gift to the clients involved in the project.

For this project I was tasked with creating all of the hero imagery for the main webpage, email blasts, social posts and connected sites. After creating all of the imagery, I was assigned to make a trailer video to try and encourage more people to get involved in the campaign.

For the video, I did all of the storyboards, about 95% of the 3D modeling using Cinema 4D, all of the texturing, lighting, motion, editing and post effects using C4D, Optane render engine, and Adobe After Effects.

This was a very successful rush project where I had almost zero direction of what to do, other than take an old asset that was made before I became a designer and update it to fit this new campaign. I concepted, and built from scratch, this animation and infographic within a couple of weeks, and since it was a rush project, they didn’t have any chance to push back on any of my design calls, however when they got the final artwork, they were so impressed that they put it up on their homepage.

Lots of work put into this project made as a training program. The main bulk of work went into a 3D flying/racing game where the user would have to fly though rings and collect gems to earn their training information to take a quiz at the end of each level. For this project, I not only did an artistic rendering for each level, but also worked on a bunch of the actual level builds, the 3D models of each of the drones, and an animation to use to build some excitement about the campaign. 

This was a pretty fun project to come up with the designs for an unboxing of (at the time) Intel's newest processor and SSD products. The campaign was developed to get well known YouTuber's to unbox some kind of crazy container to reveal these products, and we all had a lot of fun with it. The initial design went through a bunch of changes, not only because of aesthetics but also because of what all could be fabricated, but ultimately, I was very pleased with the final build and excited to share the experience.

This was my first ever professional video project. With this project, I did all of the video editing and the multiple assets that we provided, I helped with a few scenes worth of VFX with roto work, CG rendered object placement, color correction and asset creation for my coworker who was doing all of the rest of the VFX work. 

Once we were all done with the video assets, I made a movie style poster for our office to display but also as a gift to the clients as a memorial of the project.

For this project I was asked to create a box that resembled an Atari 2600 gaming system for an unboxing. I was involved in a lot of the preplanning work that went into this including how it would open, what the experience would be like, and the overall design. 

My initial sketches were approved by the client, so I moved right into fully fleshing out the product design and working with the builders to make sure everything was coming out right. Our initial idea was to call the system the "Skybox" named after the Skylake processor chip locked inside of it, but ultimately changed due to client requests. Though it's not pictured here, you can see in the video the fully designed box that it was delivered in, which was child of my own brain along with written help from the copywriters and art/creative direction from the managers in the office.

I had the pleasure of touching on each of the explainer animations made for LiveRamp. For the majority of them, I was tasked with coming up with all of the storyboards for the videos, but for a few of them I was asked to do the full animation as well, so I was actually able to see these projects through from start to finish.

Here are some various other projects that I worked on in Adobe Premiere and/or After Effects. I did the majority of if not all of the editing on all of the videos that I've posted on my site, but for the videos here, I did less with any kind of visual effects and more just editing the videos together. I will be sure to call out where I did extra work other than video edits alone.

These two pieces were made for both the San Francisco and New York locations of AWS Lofts. The images are based off of Intel's silicone wafer cut up to match the different street and building orientations of these cities, and all of the highlight lines were based off of research done on where the largest amount of data are used in both of the cities and connecting all of those points. The finished pieces were a fairly large, 36" x 36" digital print on metal with a nice gloss finish, and it was great to get to see them in person in the San Fransico location. 

These are some select frames from some of the storyboards I’ve worked on over the years. Some of these turned into video projects with motion graphics and visual effects, some turned into animations and some of them were made for proposals that never got a purchase order, but they were still fun to work on!

Scandals is a local gay bar here in Portland, OR. Over the last 7 or 8 years, I have been doing design work, website upkeep, social media admin and photography as of recent. 

Most of the design work I do for them is in the form of poster/flyers, print ads, signage and banners for events and web/social media posts. I was told that once I started taking over the design work, people made mention that they thought things all the sudden look great, and now 8 years later, it's just common place that they'll have nicely designed and well thought out work displayed around the bar.

You can visit the Scandals site here to see more of my work decorating the pages.

During down time at work, there was always a need to make some extra stuff to throw up on the ole Instagram. These are some of my favorite of the motion pieces I did for social posts.

Here are some examples of digital paintings I've done either for myself as fanart pieces or as commission work for friends and freelance clients. Most of this work was done on either a standard Wacom Tablet or Cintiq and Photoshop, or for a few I've been using my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate. 

Inktober is a personal challenge any artist can take on and was started by artist, Jake Parker. A coworker asked me if I was going to do it back in 2016 and I let her know that I wasn't sure what she was talking about, but once she informed me of the challenge, I made sure not only to take it on, but also to encourage other friends to do it as well.

It was definitely a challenge to try and find time every day to work on a new piece, but I'm glad that I did because I was able to come up with a pretty good collection of drawings. Though the challenge has the word "Ink" in the name, his official rules say that you don't have to use actual ink, so I ended up using my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and the app Procreate to do all of these drawings. Jake also says that it's best to come up with a theme, so I decided to do Video Games (obviously), and he also provides a prompt list so that you have a word to go off of for every day of the month of October.

It was a very fun project, and I will definitely do it again, but I wasn't able to in 2017 because of my Gaymer Gallery and Radiant Bodies art shows that I was working on.

For Inktober 2018, I went a little outside of my comfort zone and went head first into drawing a huge series of comic book style illustrations of Instagram Cosplayers. It all started because I had drawn someone’s Gambit cosplay just for fun and quickly turned into a challenge to do as many as I could for the month of October. After I was done with the challenge, I ended up continuing to draw cosplayers because a bunch of new people started following me and wanted to see new work. I’m still adding to my Instagram, but keep changing up what I’m working on to keep things interesting.

Radiant Bodies is a series of paintings I did for my second month of displaying artwork on the walls of local gay bar, Scandals. These were all done with Acrylic on canvas and range from 10"x10" up to 24"x24". I started with rough sketches, took photos of each of the local models, and painted them all in the comfort of my little studio apt. 

This was a series of paintings that I did with my friend Joe Cilluffo for our very first ever gallery show that was also at local gay bar Scandals. All of these paintings were done with oil on canvas, and all but the last one we work on together. We would take 15min turns working on each painting until we were done. It was a very fun experience that I will cherish always, and I'm glad that not all of them sold because I still have a few hanging on the walls of my apartment and I love them.

From 2003 - 2013 I worked for a few different sign shops learning how to create designs for signage, business cards, flyers, posters, banners and vinyl graphics (plotted and large format printed) for window, wall, brick and vehicle applications. Here are some examples of the work that I did for the two main shops I worked for, Cedar Hill Graphics back in Michigan, and AzTech Signs here in Portland.