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For this project, I worked with director Jenn Strom to help on-set supervise and composite the VFX for a 30 second TV branding spot for the Knowledge Network’s nature program thread, “EDEN“.
I also worked closely with animator Ken Meyer and TD Chris Byrnes to add CG characters to a few shots.
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Worked with Lantern Films to animate The Train Station, a short film directed by Lyana Patrick about residential school, to be aired on the Knowledge Network. This film has screened in VIFF’s 2020 festival, was an official selection at LAAF, was one of seven films selected by Telefilm Canada to screen exclusively at the Clermont-Ferrand 2021 Short Film Market as part of the “Not Short on Talent” programme, screened at Hot Docs 2021, the Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2021, the AFI Docs Film Festival 2021, AIFF 2021, DOC NYC 2021, Interfilm Berlin 2021, ImagiNATIVE 2021, ‘Animaze’ Montreal Film Festival 2021, SFiFF 2021, Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival 2021, Lunenberg Doc Fest 2021, POW Film Fest 2021, ReFrame Film Festival 2022, Available Light Film Festival 2022, Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2022, Fargo Film Festival 2022 and ImagiNATIVE Tour 2022.
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Behind The Facade
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Worked with Lantern Films to create the score for 5 short films in a series called “Behind The Facade”. The series was created for the Knowledge Network to help celebrate and showcase 150 years of British Columbia history.
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The Train Station
A Place To Belong
Ode To A Seafaring People
The Tomahawk
The First Synagogue
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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.
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Sherwin Strong: Disability Pride 2017
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Created the complete score for Jeremy & Mike Stewarts’ film “Laundry Day”. Super fun project!
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Helped score an animated webseries my friend Ken Meyer was making. Really fun to make the music!
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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.
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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.
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