This was a project created outside of work hours for an art competition to playfully explain the 'Nouns' brand. It was a piece that helped push ourselves creatively and have fun doing it. It was created using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Cinema 4D and Redshift.

This project is a demonstration of my interest in procedural motion graphics. I wanted to create something that is majority node-based and generative, and then craft a world around it that makes it feel as if it is something with weight, tangibility and significance. By utilising light, colour, and sound, the stained glass turns something that is mathematical – without any inherent story or narrative – into something almost spiritual, in which the viewer can create their own narrative.

The bones of this project was an exploration into the math nodes in Blender to build complex geometry. The majority of the frame and the panels themselves are controlled through Blender's geometry nodes. Some panels, such as the ones in the main circular frame, were designed manually in After Effects and UV mapped. This gave me more control around more prominent parts of the window.

My two biggest inspirations for this project are La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and St Faiths Church in Rotorua. Both of these spaces I find captivating with how they build an atmosphere through brilliant colours and patterns, and how they can tell beautiful stories through these mediums alone.

This project was an exploration into mixed media and frame by frame animation using printed material, oil pastels, and collage, scanned and edited using After Effects. It is designed to be watched on a loop, sucking you into a never ending world of intense colour and texture.

‘It’s More Than: Contamination Station’ is part of a proposed five video campaign that explores the complexities of the mental illness OCD. The campaign aims to break down and rebuild societies understanding of the disorder, and achieves this through immersive motion design, leveraging universal feelings of anxiety alongside the perception of an individual living with OCD, fostering understanding. This took shape in a short form motion piece that was developed taking inspiration from immersive and virtual reality to move the viewer beyond passive observation and into the realm of experience.

The piece was crafted through a fusion of animation techniques, ranging from 2.5D to frame-by-frame and conventional digital animation. This facilitates the portrayal of authentic human motion while also generating the sensation of traversing physical spaces. All visual elements were sketched on Photoshop, finished on Illustrator and composited using After Effects, and all sound was recorded and/or edited using Adobe Audition.

During the height of the COVID-19 push for vaccinations I illustrated and animated a comedy video to accompany a parodied version of Dolly Parton's Jolene. The goal was to include as many exaggerated comments about the world and the COVID vaccine of the time as possible, holding no political side or opinion and just be... fun.

Everything was drawn in procreate and animated with a combination of procreate and after effects. A large majority of the scenes were animated frame by frame.

The project was completed over many nights starting with a single illustration per scene, followed by a rough animatic before cleaning everything up into a smoother animation.