Financial Animation

A couple of years ago I was working as an in house "video art director" for a financial institution.I mostly designed lots of variations of  logos and graphics that were looked at by a lot of people in a lot of different departments.Stuff like this...

 

Then I returned to the the freelance pool and I started doing storyboards for internal spots for the 

same institution,like this...https://youtu.be/6Xg-_n36ek4

Here is my attempt at illustrator style designs for the same financial institution.

Finally some live action boards done with a quick turn-around for that  same financial institution

DRIVE THE VOTE

 https://www.drive.vote/

In order to do our part to DESTROY THE ORANGE MENACE a small group of us ,through Ffake LLC ,volunteered to make this instructional .
From phone call to delivery in just TWO WEEKS.
Mighty fast animation by MIKE OVERBECK,CHRIS PURDIN and TOM RUBALCAVA.
Editing composting and producing by PAUL GOLDEN.I boarded and designed.

Sake Commercial

This is a commercial I directed for the mighty Special Agent Productions for a dream Japanese client.This was great fun and I am eternally grateful to the talented Mike Overbeck and Tim Blair for the terrific character and effects animation.My brother did the music and I did the boards,the layouts and the design.This job had a small budget and a generous schedule and there is no one to blame for the weird story but me.

interactive pitch

These are some variations on a key frame I banged out during a recent pitch for an interactive installation that involved an unnamed financial institution.
This is the motion test that the impeccable David Brandt did in about 8 hours just from the drawings in my key frame.

Sound Lab Pitch

This was a series of key frames I did for the kind people of Bonfire,it was for a pitch for an instructional film with a scientist spokesperson in the style of my virgin video(sort of) for an unnamed sound laboratory.I enjoy working in this unfinished goofy style,no clean-up necessary,unfortunately we did not get this one.

radio shack "chemist"

This was a character background design job I recently enjoyed doing for a groovy local agency called Butler,Shine,Stern and Partners for a Radio Shack commercial.The job was "puppet style" animation in after fx with an etching look for the design.

These are the first drawings I did for the chemist character.

The character became this guy,although his hands were too cartoony and later refined .

This was the chemists background I designed,at this point everything was approved so I made replacement hand and face poses and the spot was animated .

Then somebody decided the spot looked too tame so it was literally "back to the drawing board "I was directed to reference Einstein ,Walter Matthau and Christopher Lloyd.

Einstein won but his hair and beard had to be crazied up.I drew all the stuff in this spot except the smoke ,the hamsters and their bycicles.

This post explosion cat didn't make the cut .

Yo Gabba Gabba - Story Time

This was a rare opportunity for those of us at Wildbrain to work on the fabulous Yo Gabba Gabba show. We made a Story Time sequence which they gave us a script and a track for. I directed, storyboarded, and character designed (except for the cat by Sarah Forrester) this spot. I also did these very simple background designs. It was a pleasure to work on something with gentle timing for once and it gave us an opportunity to try something new, a 3D head with a flash body. Mike Overbeck is the genius behind this combination of techniques.

My turnarounds .

These are some rough color styled layouts that ended up being the actual backgrounds.