Netflix Sex Education Season 03 Episode 07

 This was produced at Future Power Station and directed by Yibi Hu. I animated the last shot of the spot. It sure had its share of animation challenges. 

Apex Legends | Stories from the Outlands – “Metamorphosis”

Robert Valley did a great job directing and communicating this character's origin story a story in approx. 90 seconds. This was an interesting one for me, some of the shots appear quite simple but were a real challenge to get working well. I animated the first half and Andy McPherson the second half.

A special shout out to Martial Coulon and Raymond Pangs FX work. All of it was achieved with integrating aftereffects and hand drawn artwork, for those that are curious.

And I have to say, This particular creative team at EA were an excellent group of people and a real pleasure to work for.

Andy McPherson animated the diving Seer, Martial Coulon the BG and chest prop. I animated the ghosted images

Simone Biles VS Trolls

I was asked to contribute a drawing of Simone for this project in a certain design style. At the time I was working on another job and this was one of those mid morning phone calls "can we get something by noon" sort of thing. Passion-Pictures produced the final spot with Jon Saunders directing. I think there is some nice work and ideas in it, most importantly the message. Best of Luck to Simone in the Olympics and her future.

Love, Death + Robots Vol 2: Ice

"Ice" is Robert Valley's animated vision of the short story written by Rich Larson which was produced by Passion-Pictures. Robs crew consists of a very small tight group of excellent artists and production staff. Just a really great bunch of people overall. Congrats to both Rob and Patricio on their Emmy Wins for this short.

Rob allocated the entire Bunk Sequence for me to animate. He supplies the animators with a tight layout drawing or two on average, and he also gives very clear direction of what he's looking for. This is a real blessing due to the tight scheduling that is happening more and more on these jobs. For the most part we have one pass at getting a shot acceptable, then its onto the next. 

For those of you curious on Roberts workflow pipeline, Check out his "ICE behind the scenes" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUrCZZ0qgE

This was the first shot I animated (below) and it was part of the Look Dev to develop an Ice texture. Andy McPherson did the other Look Dev shot. (Fletcher jumping up onto the top of the cleaning machine.) check out his Instagram. andymccollmcpherson

There were a few other shots I animated throughout here and there.

Shout out to Raymond Pang for the hand drawn FX animation and Martial Coulon for the blowing snow and machines. The pair of them are sorcerers. Also, the amazing group of animation assistants that tie down and fix the drawings to make them look beautiful.. Thank you.

Critical Distance

 This was a really great job to be apart of. The concept of utilizing the VR experience to educate people on the troubling situations for many animals living today I think is very proactive and productive. In this case its a visual story involving the difficulties Kiki and her pod or Orcas contend with off the west coast of North America. I've storyboarded 100s of commercials, and contributed boards to feature films here and there, but boarding for VR was a whole new challenging experience. Adam May and the whole Vision3 team who developed the project where an excellent bunch to work for.

Coca Cola: Delivery

This spot was produced years ago by Wild Brain studio with George Evelyn directing.  This was a fun job actually.  The early CGI sets and BGs were supplied from Wild brain. Each frame was printed out, pegged up and this is what we matched our hand drawn images to. This was done at Gammage Animation. The classic retro character design was enjoyable to draw and George E is just a great guy to work for. A couple of my shots: 

Chobani- Eat today, feed tomorrow

 A shot I did for The Line studio.