Demo Reel 2009

Hey there friends! I had one of those great problems last week which required me to cut my reel together a little earlier than planned. It’s good ’cause people want to see my work… but not so good in that I’m currently in the middle of some pieces that need to be present in the good old portfolio! Haha. Any way, long unnecessary explanation aside, I hope you enjoy this very temporary demo reel of mine!

CMB: Winter Weekend

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t thoroughly enjoy making this piece so close to Christmas time. Being that I’m currently living in the great state of Florida… it kinda made me a little nostalgic for the frosty north! Hope you guys can get past my cheesy voice over and enjoy the visuals! See you next time!

What’s This For…?

Final Presentation Poster

Hey Folks! Here’s my latest piece. Done for Full Sail University in Orlando, the initial type treatment was created using Adobe Illustrator with the abstract elements assembled and rendered out of Modo 401. My goal was to create a piece which mimicked the feeling of modern architecture. Also considering the fact that the text is part of the 3D scene, this was also an interesting study for me in lighting and contrasting values.

Kandel Family Pumpkin

Hey Folks! I just finished carving the 2009 Kandel family pumpkin… Modeled by the wife! Special thanks to my three year old son Zion for pulling out all the insides! Too bad he fell a sleep before seeing the final product.

Update: This morning he woke Liz up saying she had to get out of bed because he was afraid of his pumpkin. Haha. Maybe next year I’ll do something less creepy… like sponge bob… or would that be more creepy…

Niklas Lundberg Style

Simply an attempt to channel the graphic stylings and throw my own twist onto the work of Niklas Lundberg… a fellow swede and one of my favorite designers.

Print Design… Finally!

I had been feeling the need to put together some good old fashioned pieces of print design for a while, so I threw these babies together yesterday. Yes they’re meant to be ironic and quirky. And no they’re not for anything real. Stay tuned for something more… complicated.

Parks Bonifay Titles

This is a title sequence I created alongside my good friend Blake Fawley for the Parks Bonifay Documentary which premiered at Hard Rock Live in Orlando on August 21st, 2009 and is now available for purchase. Thanks to Chase Heavener at fiction | FCTN for hooking us up with the work. Concept to delivery took about two weeks.

Palladia

This piece, which I based loosely on an animation concept I developed months ago, took about three days from start to finish. I shot it at 20fps in 1080p with my friend’s Canon T1i, and then used frame blending to stretch it out to 24fps. The effects shots were tracked using PFTrack and exported out to After Effects where the animated elements were created and composited. The song is called “Your Mouth” by Telafon Tel Aviv. If you’d like to see how I created the animated elements for this piece, feel free to check out the tutorial I wrote on the subject for AETuts Plus.

Icarus

This is the opener to a fictitious television show I created called Icarus. It was done as part of a class assignment where we had to design a broadcast graphics package for a television show.

Music: “Shine” by Ulrich Schnauss