This summer I am committed to upping my motion graphics game. Over the Spring I took an animation bootcamp online, which primarily focused on the principles of animation. I got a lot out of that class and I am now super confident comfortable in the After Effects Interface and confident while using the graph editor.

Hoffman Academy recently went through a large scale re-branding process and the centerpiece was a fresh new logo with a more contemporary style. When our product strategist approached me asking to animate this contemporary new logo I immediately said yes, even though I hadn’t taken on such an important task before.

A buddy of mine recently reached out to me to ask if I knew how to make computerized art. The concept he wanted for his band’s next album was “a future city, like vaporwave.”

I love absurdist theater and one of my favorite plays is Rhinoceros by Ionesco. A parable on blind fanaticism, it is about a town where the people are one by one transforming into rhinoceroses.

The Pentax 67 is a medium format camera that is pretty outdated by today’s standards, but it holds a special place in my heart. This is the one thing that my grandfather left to me in his will. The two of us never really clicked, but in the months going up to his death we finally bonded a little over a mutual love of photography

I, like most people, never really thought about how many kinds of pepper are used in the world. I figured there were a few kinds of black and red pepper that fills the grinder on my counter. White pepper, unusual but not unheard of. Does paprika count?

The Tin Woods is a stop motion short film being produced by Nick Boxwell and Mattzilla Duron in Portland, OR. Drawing inspiration from the classic books of L. Frank Baum, it explores the origins of how Nick Chopper came to be the Tin Woodman of Oz.

Growing up I there was nothing I loved more than Mario. I don’t know why. There must have been something about rushing through another world ...

This is a book cover I created for a good friend, Cademon Jamonsta. Cademon created this book after taking a philosophy class where students were asked to create their own religion. Cademon got really into it, and created this sacred text for his invented religion Machinism. 

Today is the two year anniversary of the day that I almost died. My last blog about my loss of my colon was pretty popular and even re-blogged by Ostomy Connection, a site dedicated to supporting ostomates through their trying times.

I’ve been working for Hoffman Academy for over 4 years now and things have finally been picking up steam. A couple of weeeks ago we passed the 100,000 subscriber mark on Youtube, placing us in the silver tier of channels.

Last summer I almost died. I no longer have a colon and live with my small intestine poking out of my abdomen, covered with a bag called an ostemy. 

This album cover design is for Caedmon’s solo release titled Missal. A Missal is type of holy book used by clergy for teaching, and Caedmon’s music for this album has a very digital sound. The concept was to take some of the iconography from illuminated manuscripts

This is a branding assignment from my first year of design school. I am sort of a whiskey drinker, and was just getting into it when starting my graphic design degree at PSU. Starting with writing a story about a pair of brothers from Montana who who wanted to bottle and sell their grandfather’s bathtub whiskey recipe

This past week marks the push into a new year and my 100th video with my biggest client to date, Tip Hero. The biggest news of my year came out as well, one of the first videos I created for Tip Hero went viral even beyond what was expected...

I grew up in a mid-sized city in North Dakota. We had a nice zoo, several parks and a mall. That was about it. Back then coffee houses weren't even a thing. There was nothing interesting to do in our downtime except for about ten days in the summer the State Fair would roll into town.

Hoffman Academy, my steadiest client to date, has officially launched the unit of piano lessons that I have personally been working on. It's been a steep learning curve and we are starting to churn these out pretty quickly.