Before Freeform Labs, I did freelance art, animation, and design for various clients, platforms, and projects. These have included promotional illustrations for performers, concept art for games, storyboards for commercials and short films, 2D animation assistance on live-action and animated films, 3D asset creation for educational games, art direction for an animated short, projected illustration for live performances, label and shirt designs, and illustrations for magazine and album covers.
Promotional Portrait Artist | Event: JAMM 2014 | Drawn piece featuring musicians Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman.
Character/Concept Artist | Game: Social Clues | Character designs for a USC Advanced Games Project geared towards teaching autistic children social skills.
2D Animator | Film: Cinesthesia | 2D abstract animations over live-action film by Allison Tate-Cortese. A young, talented artist with a neurological phenomenon that enables her to sees sounds (synesthesia) struggles to show her mother the world through her eyes.
Storyboard Artist | Film by Naz Arjoyan: KR&R | Drawn storyboards and lightly-animated 2D animatic.
3D Modeling & Texturing Artist | Game: Virtual Sprouts | 3D models and textures for an interactive mobile gardening and cooking game meant to teach children about healthy foods, lead by USC mHealth Collaboratory’s Donna Spruijt-Metz in conjunction with Marientina Gotsis at USC.
Channel Frederator Partner (Animator) | YouTube Channel Frederator Network | Invited to join the community based on the animations I had posted to YouTube.
Animator & Director | Animated Film: OMBRA | Concepted, directed, and animated a short animated film while at USC. Inspired by the warrior-couple narratives of ancient civilizations, picturesque landscapes of Tuscany, and pre-Roman mythology, OMBRA tells the story of two young Etruscans standing up to a supernatural threat that threatens their people.
Background Artist | Animated Film: Jahela | Stylized backgrounds for graduate student film.
Animation Colorist | Animated Film: Searching for Squatch | Colored frame-by-frame animation by Sullivan Brown.
Creature Animator | 2D Game: Trickster | Animated a spider, wolf, and raven from multiple views for a platform game.
Digital Illustrator | Website Image | Digital illustration of QConnects office space for their website (since replaced).
Album Illustrator | Music Album: Skariginals | 2D cartoon-styled pieces for the Skariginals’ CD.
Album Illustrator | Music Album: A Curious Children’s Album | 2D album cover illustration for John Wakefield.
Graphic Designer | Guitar Label | Graphic design for the interiors of acclaimed builder Steve Ganz’s classical guitars.
Projection Illustrator | Touring Show: LAGQ’s Don Quixote | Illustrated multiple ‘chapter’ pieces, which were projected behind the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s players and the show’s narrator (featuring Phil Proctor of Firesign Theater, and previously John Cleese of Monty Python) throughout the performance. Toured nationally and internationally.
Cover Illustrator | Magazine: GFA Soundboard | Painted illuminated-manuscript-inspired cover for an edition of the Guitar Foundation of America’s nationally distributed magazine.
