Antichamber Design

Nuff said. Music by Junior Boys.  Loading too slow?   View in Vimeo.

Illustration, 2010
When life is all rough churning seas and psychotic orcas, sometimes you just need to go with the Flow®.

Beary Happy Valentines Day.  First illustration under my new alias, Grizzly Whisperer, for the back log of gay / bear / man-themed art I’ll be trickling out over the coming months.  Hope your V-Day was as fun as mine.  Cheers, Aaron

Nick Campbell of DK Chicago’s got a great blog going on over at Greyscalegorilla, and it seems to be picking up a bit of steam and exposure lately, possibly due in part to the infectiously addictive 5-second project competitions he holds regularly. The challenge? Create a 5-second animation around a given theme. This time around it was Old Video Games, and there were a ton of sumbissions. I imagined there’d be a lot of them based on machinima of 8-bit games and Mario running around. So I thought I’d do a 180 and try something on the other end of the spectrum. Enjoy..and, wish me luck!

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It can’t be that bad. Right? Illustration, 2009.

Infiniti is just one of those brands that everyone should have in their portfolio.  So I decided to do a board for fun. I know, where do I get the time. Anyway, Enjoy.

Quick thingie / site intro graphic for photographer friend, Shervin Lainez.

Musclebears with hogs and big guns.  Illustration, 2009

I was actually here. In my dreams. Illustration, 2009

Storyboard for Shout It Out Loud music website intro animation.

Rebranding of demo reel for Vectorform. Shinies and glossies galore. Proverbial living glitter. 2008, Vectorform.

Website intro video for Microsoft InfoSec. From concept to completion. Got to flex the 3D+2D muscles. Completed 2008 at Vectorform.
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Boards.

Reel intro animation for Vectorform. Roles: Concept, direction, lead compositing. 2008.
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Site intro video for a Microsoft Live@Edu multimedia campaign I art directed. 2008, completed at Vectorform. If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.
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Internal show piece as part of our work with the Microsoft Surface. Roles: Concept, direction, animation, audio. 2008, Vectorform.
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Alternative style study for Microsoft User Experience video. 2008, produced at Vectorform.

Style study as part of a pitch to Z100 New York.  Done at Vectorform, 2008

Squishy squashy, grungy grimy, B&W result of a 24-hour animation competition. Co-directed with Martin Thoburn.

Here’s a ditty I cooked up for the new Vectorform brand experiments.

Poster for Carmina Burana concert for the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra. 2007

Poster as part of a multimedia campaign I art directed at Vectorform.  If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.

Poster design as part of my annual art direction of the spunk-infused youth theatre group, Purple Onion Productions. Memories…

Photo, 2007

Zbrush, 2007

Wallpaper as part of an internal design competition at Vectorform, using the Surface DJ theme we built as part of our involvement with the Microsoft Surface.

Splash page as part of an initiative to incorporate the human element into Vectorform’s brand image.

Poster as part of a multimedia campaign I art directed at Vectorform.  If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.

Maya, 2006. I swear I’ll get back into 3D environment modeling one day.