As you can see I have launched a new design of my website. There isn't much new work to showcase but there are a few older things that you may not have seen before.

I thought I would share some information about the people and the time that went into the latest project I've completed, the Animate Objects El Dorado music video.

The music video for me kicked off in April 2007 when Mathias Sorum contacted me about doing motion graphics on a music video. Mathias already had an idea of the vision for the music video, he went over the ideas with me and we discussed how it all could work. The entire video was going to be shot on green screen. Overall the project sounded great and I was looking forward to bringing what I could to the table.The video was shot at Resolution Studios in May 2007. Joshua Reis was the DP for the video and understood very well what needed to be done for a green screen shoot to work in post. Once the HD footage was transfered Maeve Price took care of editing the green screen rough cut. Having a rough cut and shots picked was very important before beginning the motion graphics. The edit was finalized in August 2007 and then I began the motion graphics work. By the time I started the work on the video, Nik Madalinksi who was going to be assisting me on the video had moved to Cambodia. Due to his slow Cambodian internet issue he was unable to help as much as we had originally talked about back in May. Nik was able to contribute what he could and he did the graffiti names of the three mc's along with the 4/5 drawn stills for each of the three mc's. I continued working on the video on and off in my free time. In early November I had a rough cut together of the video and it was getting close to completion. And by January I had an almost fully finished version and was ready to get notes from the band and see what needed to be tweaked to make the video rock. Mathias Sorum and I sat down and went over what we still wanted to see done. Early February 2008 the video was completed.

I hope you enjoy it. 4:30 minutes of green screen footage is a lot for one motion graphics artist to take on but I think I was able to produce a great piece of work.

I have been working on so much great stuff I figured it was time to showcase it all in a new reel. Check out the motion section for the brand spanking new winter reel.

It has been a pretty busy 2008 already, my desktop has been a total mess lately. Keep an eye out becasue I should be posting some new work and a brand spanking new reel.

Thought I would share some of my favorite albums of 2007. There was some great hip hop and folk music that came out this year, especially in the last few months. Hope you also enjoyed some of these albums and if you haven't give them a listen. Jay-Z - American Gangster, Lupe Fiasco - The Cool, Kanye West - Graduation, Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Summer Number 9, Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, Justice - Justice (You can beat that music video either. D.A.N.C.E.), Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (Also an amazing music video. Lollipop: 16:9 Bunny Action), Datarock - Datarock Datarock, Feist - The Reminder and finally Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master.

Also have a few honorable mentions that I didn't love but I did enjoy and it was great to see a new album from them. NOFX - They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!, The Ark - Prayer For The Weekend, K-OS - Collected and KRS-One & Marley Marl - Hip-Hop Lives.

You can always check out what new stuff I'm listening to on my last.fm page.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. I have a few fresh desktops for you holiday enjoyment in the downloads section.

Now available on Teetsy is the T-Shirt I designed called Starman. The shirt is hand-screened on a fine 100% cotton American Apparel jersey tee.