A Year in the Life: Interactive Media Director

Over this past year, I had the privilege of working on a huge project developing all the original animated material for the Fresh TV series "Grojband". From concept to final product, I couldn't have a better test of my varied skills and interests. My role including:

• Help conceive 52 mini-scenes, mostly gag driven, I think in all I was responsible for just over 30.
• Storyboard mini-scenes, site and game intros
• Design unicorns, gods, dogs, anything that was not created specifically for the show.
• Animation, directing a small crew of freelancers, I was responsible for all the animated material for the site, including the game animation, which was a first for me but super fun.

Overall the media company I was working with, Secret Location, was incredible. Awesome and enthusiastic about the project, which just fueled me to give them everything I could. I also have to thank George Elliott for the connection.

 The series has aired so I think it's safe to post some stuff now, as for the final project, the site goes live in Sept. so I'll post a link to it when it's up.

A solid year of work can't be squished into one image, but here's a glimpse.

The Interstitials

When I took over as Animation Director for 6teen, Tom McGillis and Teletoon requested some extra animated content that would be used for online purposes, and maybe bonus feature stuff. Some stuff was scripted, some just vague brainstorms, and others were completely up to myself and my assistant to create with the limitation of having no budget, therefore no dialogue. They were so well received that the next season, I was asked to create some more. This time around I had a larger crew and thought I'd try to take the Pixar approach and develop the stories with weekly story meetings, starting at the beginning of the season and then going to animation as the show wrapped up. We completed 3 shorts and 5 logo tags. There was more in development but there was a delay in production that limited our output, so rather than pump out 5, we took our time and made 3 pieces we could be proud of. This would be my first (although uncredited) director position as I was given total control of the shorts we called "the Interstitials" and I have to say I'm damn proud of them. I just hope one day they see the light of day.

Shoe Sale

This was one of the group efforts with the original concept by Mel Olm. Simple ideas are always the best launching grounds.

Juiced

This was my baby, A little seed of an idea that developed into a nice short piece. here is my original storyboard for the piece.