Freelance Motion Designer. A collection of work completed over the last few years using After Effects and Cinema 4D.
A very unexpected email arrived in the inbox earlier this year. BBC Creative and Superunion were working on a set of new idents to refresh the BBC Two channel’s identity for the first time in 20 years. Collaborating with some of the best studios and talented motion designers on the planet. Somehow, they wanted me to design and animate two of the idents.
Each of the 16 idents is a visual signifier that will complement the type of programmes on the channel and links the eclectic channel schedule together with seamless transitions between programmes.
The Radicals is an environmental, snow and surf documentary that follows four professional snowboarders and surfers connecting with four First Nations communities who are fighting to protect the land they live on across BC, Canada,
Brief
Interweave Group wanted to create an opener for the 2018 AGDA Awards showcase that was happening in Melbourne. The piece needed to be reflective of the real Melbourne, the getting beer spilt on you at the Tote kind of Melbourne.
Solution
For each of the categories in the awards, we created abstract scenes referencing the craft involved. Each scene was then painstakingly painted by Dan Cookson and Cassie Stevens using black sumi ink to create a raw, unpredictable, stop-motion piece to kick off the awards night.
Solution
We created five vignettes, each representing a principle that Van O runs by. We then stripped back everything to the core message within each principle and crafted an abstract representation of it.
Phenomenom! is a fun and friendly educational series and online resource for teachers with the goal of encouraging kids to eat more vegetables by focusing on the super natural powers they give you.
Brief
The brand agency, Van O, taking the place of Saffron in the Australian market, needed a bold statement that would turn heads, demand the attention of future clients and the best design talent and announce their arrival to the Australian market.
Solution
We created five vignettes, each representing a principle that Van O runs by. We then stripped back everything to the core message within each principle and crafted an abstract representation of it.
Brief
Interweave Group created a platform for the 2018 Melbourne Awards event focussed on ‘Your Melbourne’. The event needed an opener to kick off the night and theme for the awards.
Solution
To bring ‘Your Melbourne’ to life in the opener, Melbourne specific events, places and experiences were highlighted throughout the script. These scenes were then brought to life by giving the dots the movement and physics of the situations. I helped out on storyboard, design and animation.
Solution
We created five vignettes, each representing a principle that Van O runs by. We then stripped back everything to the core message within each principle and crafted an abstract representation of it.
In the outer reaches of space and time comes Trajections, a celebration of urban music in its many guises, hip-hop, grime, garage, jungle, drum and bass will happen for 24 hours this Summertime in Bristol, England.
Working with Joni Kirton, who created the identity for the festival, we created a trailer to build up some anticipation and hype in the lead up. The trailer is a trip into the distant outer reaches of these ever warping and shifting subcultures, where new artists create unpredictable sonic experiments that blow up whole scenes and industry legends craft new genres for our future consumption.
trajections.co.uk
UK rapper and producer, Dirty Dike, needed an opener for his new music that could act as a stamp for all his film clips.
We created a brief dose of nostalgia, recreating the world of vintage VHS openers from the late 80s and early 90s. The feeling of walking through your local video shop and scanning through, hunting for a copy of Toy Soldiers (because your version at home was all worn out) or The Land Before Time III.
Four different openers were created so that each piece of content feels part of the same world but a unique trip to the video shop.
Brief
Our brief was to create a set of explainer videos for Hostplus that would break down key superannutaion topics in a quick, concise and engaging way. The videos would then act as a 'Super 101' guide for anybody who wants to learn more about the different elements of super.
Solution
Hostplus is an industry super fund focused on serving the industries of tourism, hospitality, recreation and sport. This gave us an abundance of interesting occupations and activities to draw inspiration from. We decided to pair each of the superannuation topics with an activity from one of these industries.
What better way to describe consolidating lost super than by comparing it to finding all your lost socks? Or likening choosing an investment plan to choosing the right pizza?
A very unexpected email arrived in the inbox earlier this year. BBC Creative and Superunion were working on a set of new idents to refresh the BBC Two channel’s identity for the first time in 20 years. Collaborating with some of the best studios and talented motion designers on the planet. Somehow, they wanted me to design and animate two of the idents.
Each of the 16 idents is a visual signifier that will complement the type of programmes on the channel and links the eclectic channel schedule together with seamless transitions between programmes.
Melbourne illustrator, Nathan Nankervis, needed some expressions animated for his new website. The face will react to the page you are on. If you're on the the exciting portfolio page, the face is chuffed, if you're reading the bio, it's bored, when the page is loading, it goes crazy.
Brief
After creating the brand for TRX, a new financial district currently getting built in Kuala Lumpur, FutureBrand was tasked with creating a video that would bring to life the vision of the commercial, residential and lifestyle precincts within the district.
Solution
We brought to life the different benefits of living in TRX by wrapping the set of Malaysian patterns created for the brand around the different scenes and objects that the voiceovers would reference.
Parks, secure buildings, open office plans, shopping malls, water features, train stations and many other scenes all had to be visualised without referencing anything specifically as much of the developments plans are yet to be finalised. The patterns would then integrate into footage or fly into new scenes.
This is a reel showing a selection of the designed elements used throughout the 4 minute brand film.
Case Study is up here
Tyme’s music video for ‘Mutants (Featuring Gabriella Moxey)’ explores a post-GMO future in which humanity loses the fight for supremacy to an army of giant, nefarious fruits and vegetables.
Directed by Conlan Normington and Sidekick Films
The track 'Mutants' and the Ghosts EP is available for free download at
tymemc.bandcamp.com/
tymemc.com/
WeThree is a new brand studio obsessed with the patterns of life and the number 3.
Working closely with WeThree creative director, David Gilligan, we crafted a piece to introduce the studio's philosophy. Attempting to visualise their process in the formation, exploration and creation of new business patterns using their core brand image as the basis for all the patterns.
