NEON BLUE (Work in progress)
Neon Blue is a CG animated short film about a boy and a robot who must go on a journey to prevent World War III. I wrote Neon Blue and I am directing it during this pandemic.
Missing Link (2019)
Missing Link is the 3rd Laika film that I have had the pleasure to work on. My role was in the Visual Effects department as a Roto Paint Artist. I removed rigs from stop motion footage, removed seams from the faces of stop motion puppets, digitally removed dust from puppets, repaired “chatter” from replacement animation faces, all the while working in stereo (3D) so all work had to be consistent in both the left and right channels.
Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time (2017)
Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time is a bonkers sci-fi feature directed by my twin brother Rob. As a Visual Effects Producer on the film one of the things I created was the “Stryker Ship” with only a drawing on a napkin as a reference. It was modeled, textured, and rendered in Maya and then composited into footage with After Effects. Watch it on Amazon Prime!
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings is a dark stop motion Japanese fable created at Laika studio. On this film I worked in the Rapid Prototype department. We used 3D printers to create the replacement faces for stop motion puppets. On this film Laika did pioneering work with a new color resin printer that was used to create the faces for the Monkey and Beetle characters, making them look different in texture to the human characters that were printed on the same powder based printers that were used on The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman.
The Boxtrolls (2014)
I got hired onto The Boxtrolls because I took a class on 3D printing and I wanted to learn more about the technology. I worked on The Boxtrolls and finished my animation degree at the same time and learned a lot about how to make an awesome movie.