Professional Stuff
This is my professional portfolio.
Please browse and enjoy!!
Here’s a Couple of the Latest
LAW & ORDER: SVU “2’s” SARAH McLACHLAN “One Dream”
After the Olympics and Jay Leno going back to latenight, NBC needs to promote the new primetime lineup. This SVU spot was produced to emphasize the airing of back to back episodes on Wednesday nights. I did the graphic design for the interstitials and endtag and the overall color correction of the conform. In Febuary, NBC will aired the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, BC. I recently worked with Brad Gensurowsky and Rob Starnes to conform and color correct a Sarah McLachlan music video to promote these Olympics telecasts.
My Quicktime Galleries
Education Stuff:
James Madison University - Harrisonburg, VA - 1975 - BS in Radio & Television, Minor in Photography
Regent Universtiy - Virginia Beamer, VA - 1985 - MA in Television Producing and Directing
Work Stuff:
I started my professional career with a 8 year stint at CBN in Virginia Beach, VA. I started as a Technical Director for the flagship show The 700 Club. I eventually oversaw the development of a Videographics department. While managing that department and working in the role of Senior Designer, I designed the first on-air logo for The Family Channel, which would later become known a FOX Family and, eventually, ABC Family.
After 2 years teaching Television Production and Graphic Design at The University of New South Wales in Australia, I went to work for NBC’s news formed Cable Division located in Fort Lee, NJ. I participated in the launch and development of the graphics/branding looks for CBNC and later MSNBC. This facility was mostly Quantel equipment with Paintboxes and HAL’s. We also had 3 3d workstations running Alias Power Animator (the forerunner of Maya). I worked on all 3 systems over a 7 year period designing and animating network branding elements, show opens and show content graphics. The inside joke at CNBC was they changed logo designs as often as Sue Herara changed hairstyles.
My one experience with “headhunting” was during my last year at NBC Cable, I was approached by Alyse Dickman, one of the founders of Telezign. CNBC had hired Telezign to do a couple of projects, and I guess she was impressed. I went to work for her after a few weeks of talking. I spent a little over 3 years at Telezign, later shortened to TZ. We designed and produced branding campaigns and packages for networks and local stations. This job gave me the opportunity to graduate from Quatel to Discreet, Audodesk Flame. This is also where I first used a Apple mac. One of our biggest clients was HBO, who commissioned a major rebranding campaign in 1998. This represented one of the high points of my time at TZ. I worked as editor, designer and animator on that project.
Next, a bit of name dropping!! I spent the next 4 years working for Kyle Cooper at Imaginary Forces in Hollywood. Kyle has since left IF and know has his own company Prologue Films. While at IF I worked as Post Production Supervisor and Senior Animation Designer. We produced a mix of TV branding campaigns, film main title sequences and trailers, and TV commercials. I worked with Autodesk Flame/Inferno, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. I also supervised visual effects film shoots. In 2000 we won the Saul Bass Award for best title sequence for the movie Bedazzled and in 2001 we won an Emmy for the title sequence for Masterpiece Theather’s American Collection on PBS. IF was a very difficult place to sit still, I think I probably grew more professionally and creatively while there than any other time in my life!!
Since the summer of 2003 I have been working at NBC in Burbank, CA as a Graphic Artist in the NBC Agency’s MAGIC Room. We do the graphic design and animation for the on-air promos for NBC’s primetime shows. Each fall we are responsible for designing and implementing the branding campaign for the network. I work with Autodesk Flame, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema 4D. When we shoot original material for promos, I supervise the visual effect shooting and post production.
