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Bumper treatment for Puma Hong Kong.

I’ll be teaching an advanced motion design course at Vancouver Film School this term.  Motion Design 4 will will explore the history of title design, analyzing film for theme and composition, understanding storytelling, semiotics, film/TV branding.

Inside/Out is a promotional video for Switch Interactive to showcase the company’s assorted abilities. Created while at Switch, we utilized the talents of their entire team to produce the interface designs, animation, and special effects for this entirely greenscreen-shot spectacle. Our contribution was in directing the live performance, shooting, editing, and compositing.

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While at Switch Interactive, we designed and animated the motion ID package for Peace it Together.

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A title sequence for a feature film by by Bruce MacDonald. (more…)

At Switch Interactive, we art directed and designed the main titles for Fido. Director Andrew Currie wanted something reminiscent of 1950′s melodramas a la Douglas Sirk. Sadly, the distributors decided to cut the opening title sequence for the theatrical release, but they will appear on the DVD.

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Main title design for a independent Canadian feature film.

Eve and the Fire Horse was directed by Julia Kwan. We not only designed this title sequence but the IDs for the three production companies who produced the film: Red Storm Productions, Holiday Pictures, and Firelight CineMa (sic).

Watch it here

Main title design for an online comedy series.

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At Switch Interactive, we designed the main titles for Severed, an independent feature directed by Carl Bessai.

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Title design for a short film by Daniel Fraser

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The Weapons of Mass Distraction series is a set of five promotional videos
that focus on the relationship between media and the audience.

Session 1: Glamour explores the artifice of advertising.
Session 2: Mass compares television and nuclear weapons.
Session 3: Gaze revisits Jon Berger’s woman watching herself being looked at.
Session 4: Spectacle was based on Guy Debord’s seminal book.
Session 5: Uprising is currently in production.

Glamour explores the artifice of the advertising industry. Currently unavailable for viewing due to legal issues.

Mass compares television and nuclear weapons, loosely based on the prologue to Niel Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death.

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