“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”
-Robin Williams
Professional Work
Professional Work
Animation Production: Overwatch
For over three and a half years, I have served as the sole producer for outsource animation work on Overwatch (formerly Overwatch 2) acting as the main point of contact for client communication.
Internally, I manage a team of 10 animators, 2 technical artists, 2 animation leads and an animation supervisor; coordinating daily meetings, organizing client submissions, and budget tracking for efficient deadline delivery, and more.
I manage the complete production pipeline of animation, from concept all the way through implemention in the client’s proprietary engine. Here is a snippet of one seasons worth of animation shots we recently finalized for client delivery.
** All rights reserved by Microsoft Activision Blizzard **
Animation Production: Meta Avatar Stickers
Serving as the sole producer, I managed a team of 4 incredibly talented animators to produce these, and several yet to be released, Avatar Stickers for the Meta Platforms (Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger). We provided Animation Services for Meta, collaborating also on ideation of sticker concepts and modeling of sticker assets.
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Concept and Ideation Production: Mortal Kombat 1
CONTENT WARNING (Blood & Brutality) !!!!
I was so blessed to work with a team of 4 amazingly talented concept artists to partner with WB Games Ideation team to come up with and workshop the majority of the Fatalities and all of the Animalities for Mortal Kombat 1.
This was a massive departure in content for me. I am not a fan of gore in any fashion, but found myself loving every minute of collaborating with these creative teams often tasked to leverage my creative skills to ideate alongside the team.
Here is a small excerpt of the work we came up with.
SKIP IF NOT GOOD WITH BLOOD/VIOLENCE!!!
** All rights reserved by WB Games Netherrealm **
News Production:
Fox News Media
I worked as a Production Assistant at Fox News Media for 1 year in Manhattan, primarily on the Media Desk team. I served as the lone overnight PA for more than 7 months, assisting in the production of every on air segment, ingesting and verifying the validity and legality of all media (videos, pictures, sound). I also was able to assist in asset and audio creation frequently.
Here are two clips in which I voiced both Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin in the same day.
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Team Building Videos
When animators leave my team, I make a point to create a unique sendoff video for them to emphasize the joy and art they brought to our lives. These are a fun way to commemorate the animator and also exercise my video editing skills. These are usually done within a week during downtime and I keep them purposefully choppy to add character and hide animation reference formatting differences.
Writing Samples
Writing Samples
Buddy
A screenplay adaptation of my grandfather’s childhood stories.
The Audition
A screenplay detailing my experiences in audition waiting rooms.
Marketing & Advertisement: Promo Exercises
Examples of work from an Advanced Media Advertising Writing course.
Academic Work
Academic Work
Newscast Production
In an educational setting, my production class planned and executed a full newscast. We pitched stories, shot and edited packages, shot anchor footage, and edited all together with graphics and sound. I served as the technical director running a G.V. Switcher and calling switching cues to my floor manager. In the video below, I edited the final cut. As a team, we successfully put together a newscast that I am very proud of.
Edited in Premiere Pro.
Film Project: Pixy
This is a complete original short film written, directed, and edited by myself. I was lucky to get the help from my friends in the form of acting to see my vision come to fruition.
This was shot on a Canon D90 and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Montage Project: Growth Paralleled
This is a montage I edited of appropriated footage. The growth of a tree is paralleled with the growth of industry. This eventually comes to climax in calamity.
Edited in Premiere Pro
Audio Narrative: Ben Franklin and Bash
This is an audio narrative project written, acted, and edited completely by me. It’s a parody episode of the comedy show “Franklin and Bash”. I have never seen the show and don’t claim to know what it’s about but had a great time creating a story about them meeting a long lost relative…Ben Franklin.