Cisco “Human Network”
100% CGI, this spot is for the latest campaign for Cisco via agency OgilvyWest. I was the Creative Director of a team at Digital Domain that worked non-stop through the...
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Call of Duty “Modern Warfare 3″
Official trailer for the latest installment of Call of Duty. I was the Creative Director of a team at Digital Domain that worked non-stop for three weeks. We were responsible...
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Friskies “Puss In Boots”
A spot I directed for the agency Avrett Free Ginsberg in New York, this is a Purina-Dreamworks tie-in for the movie “Puss In...
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Gears of War 3, “Brothers To The End” (Director’s Cut)
Here’s a :60 version made up of material from the GOW3 series of spots I directed for the launch of the new game (you can see the actual spots on...
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Brothers In Arms “Furious 4″
Trailer I directed for Ubisoft’s new Brothers In Arms-related game. With certain Inglorious Basterds influences… The client gave us free reign to create as much mayhem as we liked, as...
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Audi “Beauty in Engineering”
This is a 100% CGI spec spot I designed and directed as a showcase of my work and the studio I used to work for, Radium/ReelFX. A labor of love,...
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Porsche “991″
Even though I pour everything I got into all pitches… this one for Porsche’s new 911 (the 991) was particularly exciting given my love of cars. Equally painful was not...
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PODS “Storage”
One of a 6-spot campaign I directed for PODS, a storage company. My initial boards included the live action interacting with the CG as you see in this version. Client...
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Toyota “Venza”
This was a pitch we did to try to get a massive Toyota job. 100% CG. We didn’t get the job (thankfully as it turns out), but we were able...
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Pepsi “Throwback”
’70s retro animation piece I co-lead with Tuesday McGowan for Chiat-Day in LA. All CG (with some live action), and lots and lots of filters to extract that look. Great...
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Dunkin Donuts Pitchbook
This was a test and pitch we created for Dunkin Donuts. We and the agency were very happy with both, but at the last moment their client decided to change...
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Chevy “Volt” :60
This is my take on the Chevy Volt launch spot I directed for Campbell-Ewald out of Detroit. We shot the talent on a green screen stage, and everything else with...
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Brighthouse “Your Move”
Number three of a series of spots I directed for Brighthouse. Once again, shot in Argentina. Lots of CG, matte paintings, etc. As an interesting bit of trivia, the boy, unbeknown...
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Toyota “Winter Event”
This was a very fast turnaround pitch we created for Toyota’s “Winter Event”. Unfortunately we did not land the job, but at least we have a few cool style frames...
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Nissan “Leaf iAd”
First ever Apple iAd for the iPhone, featuring the new Nissan Leaf electric car. I directed this piece back in June 2010, and we created it with a very small...
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Brighthouse “Golfer”
One of a series of Brighthouse spots I directed. It was winter, and incredibly cold… the extras hated us a great deal. Lots of CG, matte paintings and misc. effects....
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PODS “Moving”
First of a 6-spot campaign I directed for PODS, a storage company. 100% CGI with the exception of the live action at the beginning of the spot, which was shot...
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Missy Eliott “Pass That Dutch”
Directed by Dave Mayers (@radical). Lots of CG, matte paintings and effects. Winner of a 2004 VES...
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Chevy “Volt” Pitchbook
This was the pitch book I created for the Chevy “Volt” spot out of Campbell-Ewald in Detroit. I generated the entire environment, and used an existing car from a spot...
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Samsung “Square”
This was a pitch I created for Samsung. The piece was going to be shown in a giant screen in NY’s Times...
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MS Office Pitchbook
I created these style frames for a pitch we did for Razorfish (Seatlle) and Microsoft Office 2010′s launch. We ended up creating a series of spots for them, although I...
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Disney “Three D” Pitchbook
This was a Disney/Sony combo concept, showcasing both Sony’s stereo televisions and Disney’s...
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Audi Pitchbook
This was the pitch I created to sell the idea of “Beauty in Engineering” to Radium (so they’d let me do it and use resources). I put it together by...
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Audi Print
This was a test we did to create print-quality car renders (up to 16k pixels). You’ll recognize the environment from the Toyota “Venza” spot, as well as the Q7 from...
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NFL “Conveyorland”
We created this pitch for Mering Carson, out of Sacramento, CA. It presented a series of concepts for the NFL, mostly for their winter training...
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Sprint “Firsts” :30
The first of a series of spots I worked on for Sprint and Goodby in San Francisco. It’s called Sprint “Firsts” :30 (aka “Domino”) and it was directed by fellow...
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Sprint “Shift”
A tweak of the Sprint “Android” spot, this time introducing the new HTC Evo Shift. This time I got to do some character animation, lighting and comping myself on the last...
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Sprint “Firsts” :60
This is the :60 version of the initial “Firsts” (aka Domino) Sprint spots. Once again some live action with about 85% CGI. Shot on the Salt Flats @ Bonneville,...
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Havoline “Shield Inside”
Lots of animation & great fun on the first of a two spot campaign for Havoline. Check the second spot, “Assembly...
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Gain “Falling in Love”
Set to “Take My Breath Away” (remember that one?). A combination of digital still camera arrays and CG freeze-frame...
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Empire City Casino “Roulette”
A surreal spot for Empire City Casino in Yonkers, NY. Directed by fellow Mothership director Patrick Jean of “Pixels” fame. I was the VFX Sup on location and the Creative...
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BMW “Impact”
Shot on the Phantom camera at 950 frames per second. Combination of CG, practical elements and lots of compositing. Directed by Rebecca...
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Brighthouse “Workbench”
A Rube-Goldberg-style spot with seamless integration of CG elements with live action. I was the VFX Supervisor on set, as well as the project lead. I also did the animation...
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Brighthouse “Night Out”
Number four of a series of spots I directed for Brighthouse Networks, out of Florida. Shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had great fun directing the couple, which were an...
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Brighthouse “Shopping Trip”
One of four spots I directed for Brighthouse. Shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As we started shooting in the stylish Palermo neighborhood, it started to rain, hard. So we had...
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Coke “The March”
Shot in Argentina and directed by Roman Coppola. We had 1500 extras running through blocked downtown Buenos Aires. Besides the obvious rotoscoping exercises, a lot of crowd replication was...
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Sprint “Wall”
The latest on our EVO/Android adventures for agency Goodby in San Francisco. I was the Creative Director on the project, and got the chance to animate six of the shots...
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Havoline “Assembly Line”
Part 2 of a two spot campaign for Havoline (check the first one, “Shield Inside”). Robots, sparks, and lots of CG. Directed by Spaz...
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Target “Product People”
The first of what became a 5 spot series for Target. Motion capture choreographed by Travis Payne (of Michael Jackson fame). Multiple award...
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Target “Apparel”
Second on a series of full CG (or mostly CG) spots we did for Target a few years...
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