I help other creators put the icing on their video cake with editing, motion graphics, titles, and visual effects. These are some of the projects I have worked on.

Keep reading to learn more about the individual projects represented in my reel.

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Pictured is actually two projects. The first is the camera view. I created a Motion Graphics Template in After Effects to simulate the Panasonic Lumix GH5 screen so it looks like you are seeing the camera screen itself. The difference is that all parameters are customizable, so you can "change" the settings as needed in the edit.

Hence the second project, the stylized rendition of Premiere Pro to show how the parameters can be manipulated, also created in After Effects.

This was from my premiere YouTube video, using the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel to bring Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to life. I found a bare tree and used After Effects to texture the branches as if the illustration was an extension of the natural world. I also animated the cat so he could interact with the scene.

Though separated in the reel for story purposes, both these shots were from the same project.

They are from a short adventure film I made of a snowshoeing trip on Mt. Hood in Oregon. I used map data from OpenStreetMap and then colored and animated in After Effects for the film. Red Giant plug-ins were used to style the line. What adventure doesn't benefit from a montage of the journey?

In order to show where the trek was headed, I animated the mountain and 3D tracked it to where it would've been seen had the weather not been overcast.

These are frames from a vlog talking about renting a camera and using it in conjunction with a personal camera. These were stylized in After Effects to highlight the subjects. Additional style and animation made possible with Red Giant plug-ins.

I filmed the clip of the open computer with just a blank screen. I knew I would be able to use the corners to motion track the screen, and without tracking markers or anything on the screen, I could use the reflection to seamlessly composite the elements together. I designed the desktop graphic in After Effects using multiple Red Giant tools to very quickly make a believable UI. I even left the default text for the console window since you couldn't really read it.

Naturally I had to make the security cameras look like old analog cameras, even though no one uses those any more. And I cut it off, but the right file is named File3Final. If you know, you know.

I needed a way to finish a film about the pandemic, while in the midst of the pandemic. Since there was no way to know how much longer things would be, I used Trapcode Particular to animate the passage of the seasons over a sunrise timelapse, setting up the context for the final shots of the story without committing to a definite timeline.

Album art for The Unfolding was created by Bri'Anne Zaloznik. Working with her original files I was able to animate the logo in After Effects as if the paper were unfolding.

More about The Unfolding album video I made can be found on its Behance project page.

Last, but not least, I used After Effects to "break" the camera lens. The key to "dropping" the camera was setting up separate shots joined with a simple cut masked by the motion blur. The shot where it hits the ground was filmed after the content for that shot was captured, the "fall" was me quickly picking the camera up, and then reversing the shot in the edit.

For the "broken" lens, I used photos I took of broken glass, and composited bits of them together, using Red Giant plug-ins to distort the image as if the lens glass were displaced.

The bounce where the camera "hits" the ground was created by carefully dropping my camera on a couch cushion while filming, and then motion tracking that footage and applying that motion to the footage used in the video. A little sound design completes the illusion.

If you made it this far, thank you for taking the time to check out my reel. I'd love to know what you thought of it.