My Role:
Director, Cinematagraphy, 3D Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving, Sound Design, Editing
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It's Star Trek vs Star Wars in my internet-trolling viral fan film. Originally posted to (the now defunct) Current.com in 2009 on the day J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboot opened in theaters, I later added extra scenes and posted a "Special Edition" to IGN.com in 2013, the day Abrams' sequel, "Star Trek Into Darkness," opened. Playing off the plot of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," the crew of the Enterprise returns to Earth to save more whales, but this time it's an alternate Earth where President Reagan's 1980's "Star Wars" Strategetic Defense Initiative has come to fruition.
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| death star destroys enterprise |
My Role:
VFX, 3D Texturing & Animation, Finish Edit, Finish Grade, Sound Design & Mix
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IGN hosts Alanah Pearce and Brian Altano have a vacation gone-wrong in this Snapchat story set in Far Cry 5's fictional Hope County, Montana.
Credits: Director - Brennan Leyoub, Producer - Anthony Fregosi, DP - Sean Rivers, Producer/Aerial Cam - Sean Finnegan, Executive Producer - Shannon Stevens, Producer/Writer - Josh Du, Edit & Grade - John Hopkins, Asst Edit - Mark Oblanca, Choice Screens - Yusuf McCoy, Geo Filters & Photo Montage - Tiffany O'Leary/Matt Kruse.
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| far cry 5 snapchat short |
My Role:
Producer, Editor, 3D Animation, Motion GFX, Sound Design
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When Facebook launched their "Watch" video platform in 2017, they came to IGN video for gaming content, and decided to include the Every Ever series I helped create with Scott Collura in a weekly format. I was tasked with helping to produce 5 densly-packed episodes in a short period of time, 2 of which I did the edit and gfx on myself. Here is the Mortal Kombat episode which runs through the history of characters in this famously violent fighting video game.
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| every mortal kombatant ever |
My Role:
Motion GFX, Editing, Sound Design
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GoPro came to me to spice up this user-submitted video from Tony Thompson, who strapped a GroPro to the front of his high speed racing drone. With the videogame "Wipeout" coming to mind, I created a racing game overlay as well as in-world motion-tracked GFX. Drone racing is one of those things that reminds me we're living in the future. |
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| GoPro: epic drone racing |
My Role:
Producer, 3D Animation, Compositing, Motion GFX, Graphic Design, Sound Design, Editing
Info:
An infographic history of all the darkside and Sith characters in the Star Wars "canon" universe. Along with Scott Collura (writer) and Mike Aransky (lead producer), I helped produce and create all the visuals and 3D animation, including 3D-modelling of a Sith holocron and its textures from scratch.
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| every sith ever |
My Role:
3D Animation, Compositing, Motion GFX, Graphic Design, Sound Design, Editing
Info:
An extensive infographic history of every Jedi in the Star Wars "canon" universe. IGN enlisted its squad of resident Star Wars experts to produce this video, with me creating all the visuals. This is the 3rd video in IGN's "Every 'Blank' Ever" series created by writer Scott Collura (long before Smosh created their series of the same title) and visually conceptualized by myself. I mix 2D text and video with animated 3D dioramas from each major film and tv series.
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| every jedi ever |
My Role:
Sound Design and Mix
Info:
Here is a SFX-only mix to showcase my sound design work on this IGN April Fool's prank video. It teases a fake Netflix Star Wars series centered around the fan favorite villain, Darth Maul. I tried to emphasize extra clarity and grit in the lightsaber sounds, as well as employ several sound holes for extra punch. Watch it with the full audio mix here.
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| fury of maul sound design |
My Role:
2.5D Animation, Motion GFX, Sound Design
Info:
I animated this HP / PC Connection ad targeted to the healthcare IT industry. The job was initially intended as a simple 2D animation, but I kicked it up a notch by building out the 2D elements in 3D space with a dynamic free flowing camera that transitions between scenes without any cuts.
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| hp healthcare - pc connection |
My Role:
Editing & Motion GFX
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This is a Coke sponsored movie theater pre-roll designed to play before Captain America: Civil War in cinemas, giving audiences a quick recap of the overarching Infinity Stone plot.
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| marvel's master plan |
My Role:
Editing
Info:
One of the most fun edits I've had at IGN. SEGA gave us the opportunity to lock IGN staff in a dark room and film them playing a pre-release version of the amazingly authentic survival horror game: Alien Isolation.
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| how scary is alien isolation? |
My Role:
Compositing, Color Grade, Motion GFX
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This is a TV spot I made with production company Rehab and director/dp Sam Miller. Ad agency, Sukle, approached us wanting to do the "invisible man" effect, which I VFX supervised with an actress in a green screen suit. The inner back of the blouse and cuff insides were digitally added in addition to a lot of roto clean-up.
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| goodwill "blouse" tv spot |
My Role:
Edit, Motion GFX, Match-moving, Compositing, Sound Design
Info:
GoPro teamed up with popular YouTuber, The Backyard Scientist, for a series of how-to sciency videos. I was tasked with creating show gfx as well as editing a few episodes. I went with a drafting sketch look for the gfx. To spice things up, I motion-tracked and animated all of the gfx into the scenes, including adding shadows.
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| backyard scientist: flame sword |
My Role:
Editor, Producer, Sound Design, Audio Mix
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This is part 1 of a 4 part documentary I edited on the making of Assassin's Creed 3. Ubisoft gave us behind the scenes access to show the process and theory on how the videogame came together. With 40 plus hours of footage and a general idea of each episode topic, I started by making paper cuts, then rough a-roll cuts, whittling down the interview footage into a coherent message before starting the real edit, finessing and squeezing the most out of the b-roll we shot, and never-before-seen gameplay Ubisoft was giving us.
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| making assassin's creed 3 |
My Role:
Editing, Sound Design, Audio Mix, Roto/Paint, Additional Compositing and 3D Animation
Info:
IGN's annual April Fools video featuring voice over from Troy Baker and Dave Fennoy. Here we prank the biggest game of April 2014, Titanfall, by announcing the addition of the Transformers character, Optimus Prime, as a new playable mech in the game. I was responsible for the editing and sound design, as well as a few additional 3D animation and compositing shots of Matt Gravish's awesome Optimus 3D model that we integrated into existing game footage. Matt Gravish was the VFX lead. It was produced by Nick Scarpino, written by Mike Pereira, with additional editing by Patrick Coughlin.
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| titanfall prime trailer |
My Role:
Motion GFX, Animation, Graphic Design, Paint/Retouch, Sound Design
Info:
An infographic history of every Marvel Avengers character. This is the second video in IGN's "Every 'Blank' Ever" series conceived by writer Scott Collura. We cut out hundreds of characters from the comic book covers and panels, which I then cleaned up and layed out in 3D space, mixing 2D images with 3D graphics as well as adding animation to key characters to show off their powers.
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| every avenger ever |
My Role:
Editing, VFX, Sound Design
Info:
Here is the James Bond episode of Cheap Cool Crazy, which was a weekly gadget series on YouTube's START channel. START was a special gaming channel developed by IGN & YouTube as part of YouTube's intial push into weekly broadcast-like programming. I edited a season of 20+ episodes, each week with a different theme, and a lot of opportunity to do fun vfx and creative skits in the cold open. Series credits: Hosted by Naomi Kyle, Produced by Mike Zipkin, Cinematography by Sean Finnegan, Written by Mike Pereira, Show Intro GFX by Matt Gravish, Executive produced by Nick Scarpino (playing Bond in this episode), and Fran Mirabella III.
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| cheap cool crazy series |
My Role:
Motion GFX, Animation, Graphic Design, Paint/Retouch, Sound Design
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An infographic history of every Marvel X-Men comics member. This is the first video in IGN's "Every 'Blank' Ever" series conceived by writer Scott Collura and visually concepted by myself. We cut out and cleaned up hundreds of characters from the comics which I added animation to in 3D space.
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| every x-man ever |
My Role:
Sound Design
Info:
IGN's 2015 April Fools video is a fake movie trailer mashup of The Fast & The Furious and Back To The Future. I sound designed the trailer using original SFX from both films as well creating new ones to give an updated sound to the classic Delorean time jump effect.
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| fast to the future trailer |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Matchmoving, Compositing, Editing, Sound Design
Info:
This is a Toy "R" Us ad I directed for Danish ad agency, Advance A/S. After seeing my "Death Star Over San Francisco" video on YouTube, Advance flew me out to replicate it for Copenhagen. The ad played in movie theaters across Scandanavia to promote a month long Star Wars promotion at Toys "R" Us stores, as well as the 3D theatrical release of "The Phantom Menace." Credits: Creative Director: Tim Madsen, Producer: Trine Schou, Accounts: Mette Hørdum, Line Brøndsted, Executive Producer: Morten Kirckhoff
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| death star over copenhagen |
My Role:
Motion Graphics, Animation, Sound Design
Info:
I was tasked with taking a still, infrographic brochure, and bringing it to life as an animated video ad. All the elements are 2D Illustrator shapes which I animated in 2.5D space with a free flowing camera and no cuts.
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| IT industry sales animation |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, Stop-Motion Animation, Compositing, Motion Graphics
Info:
This is a stop-motion-animation proof of concept test made for Mattel and WWE for a series of web ads that would recreate famous WWE wrestling matches using toy action figures. The 2 figures were shot separately on a mini tabletop green screen set I built. It was sound designed and mixed by Chris Konovaliv.
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| 1-800-Droid Donate |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, Stop-Motion Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving, Motion Graphics
Info:
Production company, Rehab, and Ad agency, Pereira & O'Dell hired me to make a series of stop-motion LEGO films for their "Go Miniman Go" campaign, which celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the LEGO "Miniman." I concepted the idea of a "hand of God" (or rather the hand of "Zack the LEGO Maniac" of 80's LEGO commercial fame), that flies down and builds LEGOS to save the day. I animated LEGO characters and vehicles and composited them into live action shaky-cam footage. The campaign won a Golden Pencil at the 2009 One Show Awards. The "dude" is played by: Kurt Andre
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| LEGO: dude where's my car? |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, Stop-Motion Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving, Motion Graphics
Info:
Production company, Rehab, and Ad agency, Pereira & O'Dell hired me to make a series of stop-motion LEGO films for their "Go Miniman Go" campaign, which celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the LEGO "Miniman." I concepted the idea of a "hand of God" (or rather the hand of "Zack the LEGO Maniac" of 80's LEGO commercial fame), that flies down and builds LEGOS to save the day. I animated LEGO characters and vehicles and composited them into live action shaky-cam footage. The campaign won a Golden Pencil at the 2009 One Show Awards.
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| LEGO: stop drop and roll |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, Stop-Motion Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving, Motion Graphics
Info:
Production company, Rehab, and Ad agency, Pereira & O'Dell hired me to make a series of stop-motion LEGO films for their "Go Miniman Go" campaign, which celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the LEGO "Miniman." I concepted the idea of a "hand of God" (or rather the hand of "Zack the LEGO Maniac" of 80's LEGO commercial fame), that flies down and builds LEGOS to save the day. I animated LEGO characters and vehicles and composited them into live action shaky-cam footage. The campaign won a Golden Pencil at the 2009 One Show Awards.
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| LEGO: street justice |
My Role:
Director, Cinematography, 2D Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving, Sound Design, Editing
Info:
In 2007, I was inspired by The Orphanage's long running series of Ratchet & Clank commercials which featured Hollywood-grade VFX integrated into shaky homevideo footage. I started this video as an experiment to teach myself matchmoving and worked on it in my spare time over the course of a year until finally posting it to Current.com and YouTube in 2008. It went viral, receiving 1.5 million views overnight, which was a significant number for 2008, and went on to inspire many other "Death Star Over..." fan films. It was a finalist in the official 2009 Comic Con Star Wars Fan Film Festival.
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| death star over san francisco |
My Role:
Director, Animation, Motion Graphics, Compositing
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I directed and animated this ad for production company, Rehab, and ad agency The1stMovement. We all dug into our family photo albums to showcase the six-decade evolution of camera technology leading up to the really tiny Pentax Q camera.
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| pentax Q "time machine" |
My Role:
Stop-Motion Animation, Compositing, Matchmoving
Info:
This is a promo I made for the "The Rotten Tomatoes Show," a weekly movie review & comedy show on Current TV. After years of trying to explain what "Turbo Teen" was to many friends and co-workers, I finally got a chance to pay homage to the 80's cartoon with this mix of live-action video and stop-motion animation. Rotten Tomatoes Show hosts, Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox play themselves as they face off against an obnoxious Mazda RX-8 that also happens to be a Transformer.
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| turbo teen vs transformers |
My Role:
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
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This is a quirky 15 second tv promo I made for MTV 2. Two fake-Russian scientists, played by Chris Corporandy and Darren Ryan, have a eureka moment as they make a ground-breaking discovery.
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| e=mtv2 promo |
My Role:
Editor, Online Editor
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I worked for 2 seasons on TLC's "Repomen: Stealing For A Living" TV show, hosted by "Sopranos" actor, Vinny Pastore. The docu-reality show followed repomen from around the world as they'd "steal" back unpaid cars, boats and planes.
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| TLC: repomen tv show |
My Role:
Editing
Info:
This is an excerpt from Cablevision's Sportskool, an on-demand series that profiles professional sports players with training tips from the pro's themselves. Here we profile NY Islanders goalie, Rick DiPietro.
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| sportskool: rick dipietro |
My Role:
Editing, Compositing, Motion GFX
Info:
A 2005 TV spot I edited for the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team, which aired in their local market to promote season ticket sales. I animated their logo onto a metaphorical elevator the team is riding up to the NBA Championship.
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| cleveland cavs lebron tv spot |
My Role:
Editing
Info:
This is a trailer I cut for the indie feature film "My Name is Nigel Cook," which I also edited. The film stars Daniel Raymont as Nigel Cook, a trust-fund baby trying to break into the world filmmaking.
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| nigel cook feature film |
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