Text, Texture, LibraryNext
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Text, Texture, LibraryNext

How do you tell a story about the future of libraries while paying homage to the libraries of the past? Our answer: use paper textures to create a popup world of discovery, filled with the texts and discoveries of the past, while telling a story about how today’s researchers can discover their life’s passion in the library of the future.

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6K Motion Graphics
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6K Motion Graphics

For the Fort York National Historic Site in Toronto, Ontario, I created motion graphics which stretch across three 1080p projections. Using the full canvas for my motion graphics palette, I was able to create several epic motion graphics sequences.

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The Search for Justice
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The Search for Justice

The Search for Justice is a 15-minute 3-screen documentary about the trials of the Oklahoma City bombers. I created a motion graphics framework for this piece, "building on" the layout of important newspaper pages, rotoscoping legal documents into archival footage, and creating a parallax or "2 1/2 D" effect for courtroom drawings. 

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Celebrating a Neuroscience Pioneer
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Celebrating a Neuroscience Pioneer

This video was produced for a special exhibition hosted by the National Institutes of Health devoted to the pioneering drawings of early neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. I created a visual timeline showing important leaders in the development of neuroscience that would place Cajal's achievements in context.

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Unbroken Circle Immersion Theater
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Unbroken Circle Immersion Theater

The Unbroken Circle Theater is the closing theater in the permanent exhibit at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The theater showcases how country music's influence has spread from one corner of Southwest Virginia to be a cultural force throughout the world. I edited this piece and created a suite of motion graphics that riffed off the idea of curving lines connecting different branches of a common musical tree.

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