“There’s something about motion capture that just feels right.  It lets me be the animator that I want to be in a 3D world when 2D can’t cut it.  I’ve been falling in love with the medium more and more each day.  It can do more than most people realize as an animation tool so the most difficult challenge is knowing what you want to do with it.”  

“I really enjoyed playing with tone and comedy in this piece. It’s not every day that it makes sense to use explosions and chainsaws in a script. Also nice to hear that at a multi-agency meeting, Old Spice assumed this was made by Wieden + Kennedy. Nice! More chainsaws please!!”

“This content was so much fun to put together on all fronts.  Three days with comedian Michael Che, dozens of New Yorkers, endless anecdotes about what makes the city tough.  And Jeanne!  What a find.  This project made me fall in love with New York all over again.”

“Being surrounded by massive 900 year-old Redwood trees in the Bay Area while filming this was a breathtaking experience.  The piece is about working together to overcome challenges and the camaraderie developed during production between climbers and crew mirrored the message we were all there to capture.”

“The request was a #TBT for the infamous Gellin’. Someone wrote WATERMELON SUIT on the white board and somehow all eyes landed on me. Since I always want to follow the fear, we ordered a suit to fit my 6’6” (or 4’30” depending on how you want to do the math) frame and hit the streets. Even though I was wearing green tights, it was a great day and the video hit 150K+ views in a couple hours.”

“Although this project is more data entry than creative-muscle-flexing, it is one of the most inspiring tasks I take on each year. Formatting bios of hundreds of determined change-makers reminds me that our work goes far beyond the page (or screen).  I’m proud of the small part we get to play in New Profit’s annual Gathering of Leaders.”

“Stories can be told in so many ways, but if they aren’t engaging, who really cares. The vision of Hiker is to bring incredible talent together to solve big engagement problems. And that’s what this animation feels like to me. Creative, smart, joyous. And I love the audio, too. It makes these letter characters and their visual mysteries all the more compelling.”

“This project is built with Hiker’s personalization engine, so it can deliver millions of unique videos to the Apollo. I like projects that utilize techniques or technologies that are new to me. Learning about new things is one of the great advantages to working in a collaborative environment with other creative people.”

“At Hiker we’re proud to say we tell better stories and I am proud to have edited this very inspirational piece. This project is built in binuaral audio – Brad, who is blind and a Paralympic champion swimmer, wore microphones on either side of his head for the project. So best to hear it with headphones on for the full effect. We won a Davey Award for the piece.”

“We’re building Hiker Channels in React, but it’s no Facebook. Almost all social networks require ever-increasing content streams. So they’re built to drive competition between content, resulting in a constant effort to distract your viewer from your content to someone else’s content.  Channels is built for publishers. So it’s your world, and your world only.”

“This was the first project I worked on after getting hired at Hiker and it was refreshing and fun to design something out of the norm. All the hand drawn elements and quirky design choices made me feel like I was back in school doodling for fun in my notebook! Yes, I was doodling instead of taking notes during class…”

“We won an Emmy for this animated series for the NHL which featured the Stanley cup’s adventures in Trophy Land.  We were working out of a small office in Brooklyn at the time, and during the creation of the project the NHL actually shipped a life-size replica of the Stanley Cup to us for use as a reference for 3D modeling.  Needless to say, we were pretty popular with the other offices on our floor for selfies that week.”

“What made this rebrand so successful and joyous was that FFANY provided us the trust and freedom we as creators need. We were able to focus on perfect execution and the details instead of the compromises that can often lead to mixed results. Creative freedom in general is the space where magic happens.”