Roles: Creative Direction, Design, Animation, Story Development

Studio: Buck

Join our protagonist Randy as he endeavors to find the hidden truths buried inside the arcane geo-futuristic world that is Music for Advertising. When the aural wizards over at Antfood approached us to collaborate on the opening titles for the 2017 AMP Awards, our only question was "how many butts." The answer may surprise you.

Roles: Creative Direction, Design, Live Action Direction

Studio: Buck

Finger puppets. They’re just like normal puppets, except smaller and don’t have arms. In this campaign for Sports New York, we worked with our friends at Spork to embrace the goof and charm of some sports shorts as seen through a smaller lens.

Roles: Creative Direction, Design, 2D Animation, Edit

Studio: Buck

David Blaine approached us to make an animated intro for his latest magic special, a palette cleanser to get people excited for a bumpy night ahead. Inspired by David’s mind-bending magic and the Paul Auster penned script which was voiced by Christopher Walken in the style of a side-show barker, we crafted a hero’s journey of sorts, a psychedelic trip into the spectacle of the real.

Roles: Creative Direction, Design, Animation

Studio: Buck

What speaks to politics in social media more than obscure little jabber dudes? Nothing. MTV and Thomas Schmid let me and Jaedoo Lee get a little weird with this PSA about Facebook politics.

Roles: Design, Animation

Studio: Buck

How do you make a spot that paints a portrait of the INTERNET? You use every crayon in the box, that's how! Teaming up with POSSIBLE, we also went through a dozen bricks of clay, spray paint, wood, lasers and a sprinkle of LOLcats. Onward Internet!

Role: Associate Creative Director, Design, Animation

Produced at Buck NY

We at Buck had a blast deconstructing color theory with Google’s Material Design team. We embraced simplicity to highlight the true hero in this spot: Color… and more specifically, Material Design’s well thought-out approach to it. Between psychedelic tunnels and big, bold color fields, we set out to make a spot Josef Albers might be proud of.

Visit Google Design

Roles: Creative Direction, Design, Animation

Studio: Buck

This one was a huge group effort, and this montage just a snippet of the overall work created for IBM's Leadership Agenda content. We spent a lot of time with Ogilvy NY thinking about things like digital destinations, outmaneuvering markets, cognitive stepping stones and legacy systems. Then we created 40 assorted animated interludes to be peppered into expert testimonies about IBM’s Cognitive platforms. We like to think of them as a big box of friendly design punctuation: Graphic question marks! 3D commas! Stop motion interrobangs!

Roles: Creative Director, Design, Animation, Story Development

Studio: Buck

Got to lead this new campaign for light brand "Cree" with a veritable dream team of designers and animators. In this spot "City", I worked closely with keyframe wizard Andreas Bjoern Hansen to see what good light can do for a city. 

Roles: Associate Creative Director, Design, Animation, Story Development

Studio: Buck

Continuing Buck’s tradition of doing work for a good cause, we teamed up with our pals Antfood to create a film for charity:water educating the public on the very real need for clean water in communities throughout the world.

Clean water changes everything.

Learn more at charitywater.org/whywater

Roles: Creative Director, Design, Animation, Story Development

Studio: Buck

Got to lead this new campaign for light brand "Cree" with a veritable dream team of designers and animators. In this spot "Hands", I was lucky to work with friend Ben Hill, whose arcane knowledges of the animation world know no bounds.

Roles: Design, Animation

Claudio Salas invited me to be a part of a mega-collaboration for his latest project "The Wisdom of Pessimism". Thanks Claudio! This shot is my small contribution to the mix.

Check out Claudio's full film here, it's a stunner.

Role: Design

Studio: Buck

Big ol' chunky illustration for our annual Buck Holiday Party. 

Roles: Direction, Design, Animation

This was my spooky submission for the 2015 Yule Log project, curated by the one and only Daniel Savage. 

Roles: Design

At Buck we made a series of silk-screen prints to give away to friends and family for the holidays. I collaborated with Ben Langsfeld on this geometric mish-mash of fun. Printed by Mark Herschede of Haven Press Studio.

Role: Design

Studio: Buck

Some style development done for a pitch that went away. I still have a little <3 for it.

Role(s): Associate Creative Director, Stop Motion Director, Design, Previs

Produced at Buck NY

I worked with the inimitable Jon Gorman, Ben Langsfeld, and many other talented folks on this stop-motion campaign for Sherwin Williams and HGTV. 

Role(s): Associate Creative Director, Design

Produced at Buck NY

I worked with the inimitable Jon Gorman, Ben Langsfeld, and many other talented folks on this stop-motion campaign for Sherwin Williams and HGTV. 

Roles: Associate Creative Director, Design, Animation

Studio: Buck

For this year’s US Open hosted in New York City, we at Buck worked again with IBM and Ogilvy & Mather to visualize some live data from the tournament. This time, it was all about the Big Apple. We made an assortment of animations featuring tennis balls, hot dogs, and competitive peregrine falcons… all to connect the dots with data comparison from the US Open. Who knew Arthur Ashe stadium could fit as many fans as there are trees in Central Park?

Role: Design

Produced at Buck NY

Character designs for a failed pitch. Booo failure. Hooray characters!

Role: Design

Produced at Buck NY

What if when you went into the minds of famous soccer players, everything looked all ghosty like when Frodo puts on the "one ring" in Lord of the Rings. What if that was also filtered through a weirdo graphic novel ink aesthetic? These are both questions I asked during the design exploratory for the Nike Hypervenom campaign at Buck. 

Role: Design

Studio: Buck

The guys and gals at Capstrat came to us at Buck to explore some character design for a revamp of our shared Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina campaign. 

Alas, this direction wasn't chosen for the final look, but I like the designs anyhow!

Roles: Art Direction, Design, Animation, Compositing, Edit

Produced at Buck NY

Worked with my homey Yker Moreno on this fun cel jam for MTV. 

Roles: Art Direction, Design, Animation, Story Development

Produced at Buck NY

King Kong, Linsanity, sexting scandals. In this multi-part campaign for Sports New York, we at Buck explored what it means to be a true NY local. Between getting to animate a be-pixeled Brett Favre, and putting the “booty” in “Kardasha-booty”, we had a great time working on these spots with the lovely folks over at Spork NY.  

Role: Design

Megh Wright from Splitsider reached out to me to illustrate one of Stefon-from-SNL's run-on-sentence night clubs. As Stefon says, "This place has everything: tweakers, skeevies, Spud Webb, a child, and a Russian guy who runs on the treadmill in a Cosby sweater."

Role: Design

Produced at Buck NY

What a beefcake. Santa's not skipping leg day that's for sure. Had fun designing this sassy invite for Buck's 2014 holiday party.

Roles: Design, Animation

Produced at Buck NY

A quick weekend animation pitch for Finnish soft drink Jaffa, based on Erik Bruun's classic illustrations.

Roles: Art Direction, Design, Animation

Produced at Buck NY

Our good friends at McKinney brought us at Buck this fresh, new take on the Sherwin Williams color swatch campaign, employing a graphic, less-is-more aesthetic to promote HGTV hand selected designer color palettes.

Big shout-out to co-animator and designer Nicolo Bianchino.