Reel

I did the art direction here, building a lot of the things you see and suppling all the cool equipment.

Here's a spec spot we did. I did the offline edit in FCP. On set I also did a lot of work controlling the mud. I threw away a lot of clothes that day.

We had a static menu background for a long time. This one:
It always bothered me that it looked like it was in motion, but it didn't move. So I reverse engineered the original design, since we only had a flattened file, and animated the elements in After Effects to get this result:

By the way, the original is on the right.

One tasks I had was to translate the text on some of our director's spots. Some were fairly easy, and some were very difficult. This video shows that I managed to create a clean blank on a highly dynamic background.

Here's the famous scene from Royal Wedding where Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling. I've always wondered what it really looked like. If you haven't seen the original, this video makes no sense. Original: [YOUTUBE]