Project: America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5, Season Open
Client: Framework Studio for MTV

After the client saw the new opening for The Regionals, they asked for a new ending to use for the whole season. While it hasn’t aired yet, I’m pretty excited for how it came out - especially given the crazy short timeline on it. Click the image above to see the full animation!

Here’s the approved styleframe for this look, and here’s my favorite backup look that I submitted to the client. ABDC’s on top of the world!

Project: America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5, The Regionals
Client: Framework Studio for MTV

Framework has had a long running relationship with ABDC - they did the original look and graphics, and have gotten to develop logos for dance crews on every season. With the fifth season, we got to work on a remix of the “rehearsals” opening title sequence - three of them, in fact! I threw a set of styleframes together, they got chosen, and suddenly we were turning around a 20 second opening in less than a week. Fortunately, it came together awesomely, and most of the work in it is mine. I made 3 end cards, one for each of the 3 regions. Click the link above to take a look!

Project: The Sing-Off
Client: Framework Studio for NBC

My first network project! It was a massive team effort, with designs by most of our designers thrown in and eventually referenced for the final opening. We had a big shoot, with director Mike Goubeaux helming it. My role was mostly 3D and compositing - I did green screen removal, built the theatre we can see as the curtain opens, and built all of the elements for the final shot, which Mike did final animation on. I also got to work on interior graphic elements using this neon sign motif. Click the image above to see the main titles!

Project: Jilted?
Client: Framework Studio for Bravo

While this project is in no way mine alone, I had a big hand in animating and designing it. I was brought in a few days into it to act as a creative director on it, giving notes to the lead animator, Greg Doyle, and doing some heavy lifting on the 3D work. I cleaned up Doyle’s church, modeled an interior for it, and brought on my friend Jessie Slipchinsky to model the two characters. I animated and designed the opening map scene as well as the interior of the church. While the project was super-rushed, it was fun being able to give creative notes on it and dig into some meaty 3D work. Check out the results by clicking the image above!

Project: Downtown Girls
Client: Framework Studio for MTV

When my boards were selected for the upcoming TV show Downtown Girls, I was pretty stoked. Then I realized I’d have to actually animate them. The boards focused on a long, continuous camera move around a taxi, ending in the reveal of the titular Downtown Girl getting out of the cab and dropping her sunglasses. But there was no money for a real shoot. I built out the cab in 3D, along with a small set, and we shot the girl on greenscreen and composited her in. With a few edits, plust some more scene-setting intro, we ended up putting together a really awesome open in very little time that looks like it cost five times as much as it did. Click the pic above to see it!

Project: Billionaire Crime Scenes: Was it Murder?
Client: Framework Studio for E!

Based on some fantastic boards by the ever-awesome Veva Burns, I animated this opening title sequence for E! Unusually for me, I did it pretty much entirely in After Effects - no 3D work here. We got to do an in-house shoot for the characters we show lying by a pool and transforming from butler to prison guard. All work done in Photoshop and After Effects. Click the image to check out the animation!

Project: Ghost Hunters
Client: Framework Studio for SyFy

While my boards were not selected for the new opening titles of Ghost Hunters, I ended up coming in at the last minute to help animate the logo reveal. The lighthouse featured in the logo is a Ghost Hunters trademark, but it turned out that the only still we had of it was nowhere near high quality enough to use. I was tasked with building a 3D model of it and animating a camera move through the logo. It ended up being a few days of very intense Cinema 4D and After Effects work, with some last-minute changes to the logo that made it pretty hectic. The original boards were by Matt Ciaglia. Click the image above to see the whole open, including some great after effects work by Matt.

Demo Reel updated Spring 2009. All clips shown are exclusively my work, with these exceptions:
- Nitro Circus logo explosion: additional VFX and compositing by Veva Burns
- Heli-Loggers logo reveal: I modeled the crane, and modeled and animated the trees
- 3 car model turntables: I modeled these, but the textures are by Art Gould

Click the image above to take a look!

Project: Young, Beautiful and Vanished: 15 Unthinkable Crimes
Client: Framework Studio for E!

This project was the first one where my styleframes were picked. Momentous! I also was lucky enough to be able to animate them. This included an entire graphics package for the show, as well as the opening title sequence. I wanted the graphics to evoke candlelight vigils and shrines to missing people, with candles floating through space in front of photo frames. It ended up being a very heavy 3D render, with the candles sculpted in ZBrush and rendered out in Cinema 4D. Click the image to see.

Project: Ghost Hunters
Client: Framework Studio for SciFi

I developed a set of boards for a new version of the main title sequence of Ghost Hunters. It was pretty fun digging into the hardware and tech behind the show, and I implemented some of these ideas into the boards, drawing on the idea of technology revealing a hidden world of ghosts and spirits. Developed using Photoshop. Click the image to see more of my boards.