non-vfx work

Kanaka_Bar_Band Reno Nation, Kanaka Bar

Worked with Lantern Films to create the score for “Reno Nation”, a 3 episode YouTube home renovation show for the Fraser Basin Counsil and the Kanaka Bar Band. The show is about various home improvement techniques for energy efficiency.

Sherwin_Strong-Disability_Pride_2017 Sherwin Strong: Disability Pride 2017

Worked with Lantern Films to create the score for “Sherwin Strong – Diversability Pride 2017” for the Inclusion BC Foundation and the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities Film Festival.

Indigenous Cultural Competency

Worked with Lantern Films to create music to be used in a series of 5 cultural competency video modules for Early Childhood Educators via a partnership between the Musqueam Nation, BC Aboriginal Child Care Society, City of Vancouver, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and other community partners.

Aatsie Davie School

Worked with Lantern Films to create the score for a short film to help attract new teachers for Aatse Davie School, in Northern BC.

Uts’idoohts’e / The Giant

Worked with Lantern Films to create a short animation (and score) for a traditional Kwadacha story. Pages from a children’s story book were used as the source material. The animation spans 3 monitors, using both English and Tse’khene captioning, and is on display (playing alongside Kwadacha: By The River) in the Impacts Gallery at the W.A.C. Bennett Dam Visitor Center, in Hudson’s Hope, BC.

Vancouver, British Columbia – Empty Homes Tax

Worked with Lantern Films creating music for their “Empty Homes Tax” videos.

A Home Warming Story – Energy Efficiency and Savings at Kwadacha First Nation

Worked with Lantern Films creating music for a project to explain the cost benefits of weather proofing your home.

Meet your purrfect match at the BC SPCA

Helped out Jeremy Stewart and Image Engine by creating the music for an animated spot for the SPCA.

Invisible Heroes: Aboriginal Stories from Vancouver’s DTES

Helped out as the primary photographer for the book “Invisible Heroes“. The book follows the lives of several indigenous community members as they share their stories of courage and determination in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The book is now available to learning centres across Canada as curriculum material.

Kwadacha: By The River

Worked with Lantern Films on animation for their BC Hydro film “Kwadacha: by the River”. The film is set across 3 screens and can be viewed in the Impacts Gallery at the W.A.C. Bennett Dam Visitor Center, in Hudson’s Hope, BC.

Laundry Day

Created the complete score for Jeremy & Mike Stewarts’ film “Laundry Day”. Super fun project!

Blue is the New Green

Worked with Lantern Films to animate the intro sequences to “Blue is the New Green“, a six part open online course offered on edX. The course is about water and our connection to it. Also worked to help create six supplementary course videos to accompany the main content.

Nort’s Shorts
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Helped score an animated webseries my friend Ken Meyer was making. Really fun to make the music!

BC Jobs Plan

Helped animate some motion graphics with the Caffeine Collective on a BC Jobs Plan spot.

Shop For The Cure

Made the score for “Shop For The Cure.”, a promo to raise funds and awareness for ovarian cancer.

No Fun City

Helped composite the intro title sequence to the documentary film “No Fun City“, a movie about the struggling underground music scene in Vancouver.

Bedlam!
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Made some motion graphics for Veda Hille‘s music video for her song “Bedlam!”. I combined provided drawings of branches and trees with footage of crows as well as still and live action photography of Veda. I created her glowing lantern and tried to give things an interesting, surreal, and stylized look + feel to compliment the live action footage.

Here’s my 1998 (!) demo reel from when I was fresh out of film school and trying to figure out what the hell animation is. Animated and rendered in Softimage 3D 3.7.

A heart warming 2 minute ‘jocks vs nerds’ story on ice.