Creative Lead | 2D Animator | Writer
Bio
Creative Lead and 2D Animation professional with 15+ years of production experience across television, fi lm, and digital media. Proven track record directing and managing animation pipelines for high-profi le projects including FXX's Archer. Animator and builds artist for other projects such as Netfl ix's America: The Motion Picture, and Marvel's Hit-Monkey.
Currently leading B2B animated video production at The Sketch Effect while delivering freelance animation across TV, gaming, and corporate verticals. Adept at translating creative vision into execution, managing teams, and driving projects to deadline in fast-paced studio environments.
Team Leadership · 2D Character Animation · 2D Character Rigging · Motion Graphics · Video Editing · Toon Boom Harmony · Adobe After Effects · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere · Adobe Media Encoder · Adobe Fresco · F-Track · Google Suite
Artist’s Statement
Yet another weekend and we are on our way to Queens from Long Island, NY to visit my grandfather. I am sitting in the back seat of our 1991 Honda Accord, staring out of the window watching the trees and traffic turn into streaks of color as they fly by. My eyes begin to close, and just as I am about to fall asleep, I wake up as I'm being lifted out of the backseat and set down in front of a bald man in a wheelchair. Looking up, and being just five years old at the time, the first thing that stood out to me was that he was missing both of his legs. This initial shock is not easy for a toddler to digest. I got past it, however, once he shared his passion with me: art. He was a painter, a sketcher, and my first exposure to what would become a life long appreciation for the arts. My biggest inspiration, my grandfather was a man who fought in World War II, and lost both of his legs to diabetes.Yet, this never stopped him from pursuing his passion.
On more than one occasion, I've used the word “limbo” to describe my time between receiving my undergraduate degree and arriving at Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta . During that time I discovered comedy as an artistic medium. I came to be fascinated by people such as Judd Apatow, Marc Maron, Reggie Watts, and of course George Carlin, to name a few, and their creative process. There is an underlying truth and passion in their work that is so raw, so real, it cannot be matched. However, the viewer’s experience is one of great engagement. After coming up with an entire special’s worth of material, the comedy legend, George Carlin would throw out everything and start fresh. This sounds like madness. What he is doing is forcing himself to dig deep and produce something with more feeling. Now that I have earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Animation from SCAD - Atlanta, it is my time to dig deep, and push bounds through 2D animation and motion graphics. Not only will I create work I can be proud of and inspire others with, I plan to evolve into the unstoppable creative person I saw myself as so many years ago.
