Wonder Junction VBS Animated Promo

https://answersingenesis.org/vbs/wonder-junction/

Another year has passed, and another animated marketing promo has been completed for VBS 2025. Unlike previous years, I had the immense opportunity of working directly with our illustrator, Paul Agner, on the story, characters, and backgrounds. After sending him my storyboard, he simply knocked it out of the park. I'd never had so much custom art to work with! Aside from some particle FX, this was wholly crafted in-house. Previous years relied heavily on stock to fill in the gaps, so this was a treat. From concepting the visuals off of an initial script all the way through the final animation delivery, these projects are always a blast. Check below for a behind-the-scenes look at the production process.

Claude Compressor — Unlocking Science Season 5

Had the privilege these past few months to animate some features for Answer.TV's new season of Unlocking Science. Really fun to produce these little segments for each episode. The lobster--Claude, is the host's mascot for the series. Below is a Supercut of each animated section, for those interested. Full episodes can be found on Answers.TV !

2024 Kyle Fair Promo

This spring, an old friend of mine from Answers in Genesis, Grant Bowling, called me up for a little video project he had in mind. Now the video manager for the city of Kyle, TX, he was producing a short, funny advertisement for their upcoming Kyle Fair. Now this fair was different than most—a Texas hootenanny where every year they try to gather as many people named Kyle in one location to break the World Record. Overall a silly little project - graphics were provided by Grant's team. Thanks Grant!

Great Jungle Journey VBS Promo

Just wrapped animation on this next VBS promo for 2024. Had a couple weeks to put this together. Fun project and opportunity like always. Click below to watch!

https://answersingenesis.org/vbs/jungle-journey/

For production, this year’s promo was a healthy challenge. We had some art assets created beforehand, but no time for a full production of characters or sets. So, I tried to keep the narrative simple - our boat captain leading the kids down the river, while using stock video assets, I believe we were able to tell the story of the promo well in the time we had.

In the end, it was decided that our initial VO would need to be swapped for a new voice and the whole lipsync had to be re-animated after launch! A wild process, but the final version has a better energy to it.

Want a behind-the-scenes look at the storyboards through to the final animation process? Check out a side-by-side comparison here:

Chroma Chronicles

Recently I had the opportunity to provide character animation, VFX, and technical artist work reskinning the character animations for BoxBox's card game, Chroma Chronicles. Below I’ve posted a showcase of my reskinning animation work, showing off the cool new skins and DLC coming to the game.

Keepers of the Kingdom Promo

Just wrapped up production on my promotional film for AiG's Keeper's of the Kingdom VBS. Was given the opportunity to craft this promo just about on my own over a three week time period. Mostly solo projects are pretty rare, so I definitely tried my best to knock it out of the park! Maybe some of my style and mark made it through in the end? Reviews have been excellent since the launch. 2023 materials are already selling out. Awesome!

https://answersingenesis.org/vbs/kingdom/

Here I've decided to post a behind-the-scenes look at the animation process for this promo. You can compare the approved animatic I came up side-by-side with the final result:

Animation for Australia

I was recently commissioned last minute for some animated films for the government down under. Pretty cool opportunity—the timezone alone was a challenge with our friends across the Pacific. Always fun to swing in and complete a film under a crazy deadline. This took me back to my 49-hour Animation Competition days at Huntington University. Assets were provided by an aboriginal artist, the rest wound up being supplemental stock illustrations.

Wayside — another year of freelance projects

Animated GIF banner for Discord ^

Recently commissioned to work on a client's indie game, called Wayside, designing a poster and some animations of the characters. Here are some sneakpeeks at the final results.

Game Poster ^

Poster art process ^

Now for some slick new character sheets. Designed the updated looks from the previous uniforms a couple years ago. Had fun with these, full turnarounds and expressions. I think the design language of the game may finally be finding its stride. Some exploration here with these raster looks as opposed to the previous vector work the client expressed interest in.

Wayside Concepts — Marker

Client had seen some of my past marker work sketching concept art for various projects and requested some for Wayside. Had a blast breaking out my old inks for these. As always, process began with super rough thumbnails before heading into the final piece. 9x12 marker illustrations.

Comedy Web Show

During the lockdowns I've managed to receive some character work for a YouTube comedy series. These were some of the fun characters I got to come up with. The client requested specifically a Yotam Perel / Adventure Time / Family Guy style. They would later be rigged and animated in After Effects. These are just 6 of the 20+ sets of turnarounds commissioned.

In addition to the turnarounds, I was also pegged to give some example rigs and animations for them. The client insisted on using a new plugin, Rubber Hose, so unfortunately the limb structure was much more limiting than I had hoped. My designs just don’t fit with this plugin. DuiK or Limber both would have done a better job achieving the look and feel of the show.

Shaded Chasm Mockup

Well, here we are. Quite happy with this mockup of how this game could look. Good proof of concept for the art style, UI, mood. Finally feel like it's in a good place in its initial concept before moving forward with fleshing out the narrative and cast. Development will stall until we can devote more time to it. Until then!

Kuiper’s Sail — Silver Addy Award

Great news everyone. My Senior project at Huntington University - Mourou's first film, Kuiper's Sail, has just won a Silver Addy Award for Animation / Special Effects in the Fort Wayne, Indiana chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Super stoked about the award, but I wasn't the only recipient. It seems Huntington University has brought in quite a bounty of awards this year - over a dozen! Congrats on all the students and their fine work. It's great to see our little program gaining more and more recognition every year. Click the link below for the full list of awards including their respective films.

http://foresterfilms.com/addys/

Senior Project Animatic

This is what I worked on all of last semester in Senior Project. Even though I had a lot of this piece animated last year in After Effects, I had some inconsistencies and this big pit of unknown riding with it. So, this past semester I worked it all out in Toon-Boom, kept it simple, and got the whole piece down. This is good because this paves the way for finishing the project by May. It's a perfect blueprint to the very second. I finally decided to upload it instead of keeping it a secret. Let me know what you think!

Oh, and if you're wondering, there is exactly 20 seconds of black in the beginning intro. This space is reserved for title slugs during the final piece.

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. Internship

Well, I've been using blogspot for my blog for quite a few years now, and have now decided to move over to WordPress, simply for the better features and professionalism. This migration might take a while - however, I will not delete my old blog, nor my posts. The internet has endless space, so why get rid of it? I'd like to leave my footprint on the world, even if it is a digital, finite one.

Last we talked there I had just returned from my summer Concept Management internship at KCI Medical. I wanted to finally post the animation in full! So here it is, my first full 2D film. I utilized Toon Boom Harmony for this over the course of last summer. It was a fantastic experience, but ultimately, I've gotta get better! This was just the start. Let's grow.