I’ve been fascinated by animation since I was a kid. It’s a magic trick that never grew old for me.

From giant sentinel battles in The Matrix sequels to holographically showcasing state of the art safety systems for Volvo, I’ve been fortunate to create a wide range of animation for a variety of mediums.

I thrive on the challenge of bringing characters and objects to life, from big, physical actions grounded in the real world to the nuances of character-focused animation that conveys thought, emotion and subtlety.

Over the course of my career I’ve been an Animation Artist, Lead and Supervisor for a variety of films, games and mixed/virtual reality projects.

Below is a sampling of animation work in my portfolio. It’s categorized into my more action centric animation from various feature films and projects, followed by examples of my character focused animation work and finally a glimpse behind the scenes with look development examples, prototypes and motion tests.

I love film and its ability to emotionally transport the audience and make the unbelievable believable. I worked in the film visual effects industry for over a decade. My worked spanned various projects for franchises like The Matrix, Spider-Man, G.I. Joe and ThunderCats.

Film Animation samples

This reel highlights some of the action oriented, cinematic animation work from my career.

The art of character animation is something I’ve always been enamored with. The challenge of embodying people, animals, characters, objects, etc. with life is intoxicating. I’ll never grow tired of taking a character from a T-pose thru a flurry of keyframes and finally bringing them to life. Simply put, I like making things move. These examples represent some of the different types of characters and performances I’ve had the chance to animate over the years.

G-Force clips

The guinea pigs and mole in this movie were like little squishy sacks. They were a lot of fun to animate. They had some solid voice actors delivering the lines which helped make the animation go even smoother.

Stuart Little clips

Animating Stuart was full of great challenges. He was small, but still had to maintain weight and presence especially in relation to the other live action cats and his human family.

Open Season clips

I got the chance to help out on Open Season for the last few months of its production. In a short amount of time I got to animate 10 different characters. Each one had their own quirks and personalities. My favorites were the ducks and the rabbits.

There’s a lot that goes into visualizing in the incubation and early stages of a project. Much of that work doesn’t get seen since it doesn’t have the pizzazz of the outward facing content. This is a behind the scenes glimpse into some of the projects I’ve worked on. It includes motion tests, pre-viz animation, rig creations and more. Hopefully this will give you insight into my process and approach when working on a project.

Watch - rig and animation test

This is a watch I rigged and animated for a HoloLens demo for the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity. I worked with our audio engineer, Jason Syltebo, to create a rhythmic, technical animation that takes you inside the inner workings a fictitious high end watch.

Fourth Coffee - pre-viz animation and layout

This is an early version of a prototype mixed reality training experience for a fictitious coffee company. The final experience would've been a narrated and interactive learning out of box experience for a high end espresso machine. A holographic sasquatch who happened to be obsessed with coffee was part of the experience to help engage the viewer and lighten the mood as they learn.

Fourth Coffee - Sasquatch audition

I used off the shelf rigging tools to get Sasquatch up and running quickly. This was an animation test for the rig and chance to explore Sasquatch's personality. It's safe to say he's talking about his favorite beverage...coffee. He was voiced by one of the Designers on the project.

Pogo Rig Animation Test

This was a rig I helped create for animations in the Kinect app Build-a-Buddy. It was a 5 bone chain driving by a full human skeleton allowing animators to get complex motion out of a simple rig. The rig was applied at run time to anything the user wanted to scan with their Kinect. There were multiple personalities in Build-a-Buddy that were applied to user scanned objects. This particular animation was stress testing the rig for the b-boy personality.

Plesiosaurus - life-sized hologram

This is a clip from a plesiosaurus I rigged and animated for a milestone presentation during HoloLens development. The finale of the presentation featured the window shades being raised and revealing a full scale hologrpahic plesiosaurus swimming gracefully in the four story atrium outside the conference room.

Spider-man animation test

This was a test animation I created while working on the feature film Spider-man 3. It was an exploration of creating realistic dynamic action and capturing it with camera that maintained a sense of scale and space.

Suticase - rig and animation test

I rigged the suitcase, stickers and logo for a short lived UX experiment during the early days for the HoloLens experience, HoloTour (then World Explorer). Animation explorations like this are a way to test out rig limits and efficiency. It's also a chance to experiment with giving holograms a sense of believable weight and presence.

Doc Frankenstein - motion test

This was an animation test used to evaluate a rig created by an external vendor for an unreleased comic book adaptation of Doc Frankenstein. The goal was to create a small action set piece that was visceral and physical.