Leo Burnett "Language of the 21st Century" Intro

Shot on a Canon 7D w/ Dragon Stopmotion, composited in After Effects.

I worked on this project via The Lifelong Friendship Society in collaboration with agency Leo Burnett & artist Kieran Antill for the agency's 2011 Cannes Presentation.  The blocks themselves were actually quite large, over a foot-&-a-half across and hand-constructed by the good people of twoseven with wood.  It may not look like much but it was definitely one of the more physically challenging shoots I've been on lately, if only due to the weight of the cubes & the heat that day.  Riding $10K of camera equipment on a bike across Williamsburg to try to make call time probably didn't help much either...

BONUS: The official website up now: www.AlphabetOfToday.com

BBQ Flyer Design

I used to do crappy poster designs all the time back when I worked at Columbia College Chicago in the Science Institute.  I'd entertain myself by fitting the most disgusting and deplorable imagery I could find into something like an announcement for a weekend teacher workshop.  If you don't believe me, find a good picture of back herpes, bump up the contrast & invert the colors and you have yourself a beautiful starry background for your next poster.
Obviously, I've matured tons since then because I left out any such nonsense in this design I did for a BBQ recently:

Coming Soon: New Stop Motion!

I'm currently wrapping up a couple of stop motion projects that I shot earlier this year, they should be up within the week!  In related news, I think I've done enough stop motion compositing for the summer.  

Visine "TGIF" Director's Cut

Leo Burnett & Kieran Antill "The Language of the 21st Century" 

I'd also like to thank everyone who came out to support at the Brooklyn Film Festival!  It was a great year & I'd like to congratulate all of my fellow filmmakers who put the 'tainment' back in 'edutainment'.

I didn't have time to photoshop more people into the audience.

Random Sketches

Hey everyone -- my apologies for not getting to post more lately, things are busy as per usual.  Yesterday I had the pleasure of shooting a stop motion project with a bunch of guys I'd never worked with before in a studio with no AC for 10 hours and it was a blast!  Once the post & audio are finalized I'll have something to show.  I have a lot of work coming up this week with the Brooklyn Film Festival and the CunninLynguists video, so there will be good things coming up.   Until then, enjoy some random drawings I did last week.

Practice Posin'

Pensive Superhero Type

Sometimes you get bored halfway through a drawing and need to mix it up.

"Ci'iy Life" BFF Showtimes Announced

Hey!  Just because you can watch my music video for Oddisee's "Ci'iy Life" for free right now from the comfort of your own internet connection, why not pay some money and come on out to the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 5th or the 7th?  I'll be at the 2:30 showing on Sunday, come out & hang.

Attempting Type Design

I don't really do too much typography design but I was pulled onto a pitch a few weeks back where I had to come up with a few quick concepts.  I have the most fun doing character stuff but this was more interesting than I had originally thought it would be (which was somewhere on the 'interesting scale' right around 'doing taxes').

.... and I thought that was CGI: Fantasia 2000

Hand-drawn animation doesn't get much more detailed than that.  Happy Friday!

Ci'iy Life Music Video

It's officially LIVE everybody.  Thanks to Oddisee, Tranqill, & Sam Bair for helping me get this video out & I'll keep you posted for when it's scheduled to play at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

Ci'iy Life x Brooklyn Film Festival

GOOD NEWS!  My music video for Oddisee's Ci'iy Life is an official selection of this year's Brooklyn Film Festival.  Stay tuned for more information...

"Enemies with Benefits" Behind the Scenes

Thanks to the CunninLynguists & Tonedeff for the amazing weekend.  I'd also like to shout out Luke Rotzler and Sam Bair (of Locksley) for helping me out on set.  Check back for more video-related updates soon. YAL4LIFE.