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Hewlett Packard: DM3 & MS2 – Particle Animator

These two spots were a small part of a huge HP campaign, broadcast and interactive, harmoniously delivered by Hush. Along with HP’s new look was a wide range of raw icons  which were married to new products.

It was my job to create a particle kit that could dust our viewers with HP’s new icons throughout the campaign. With a team this solid, the short deadline was not a problem.

Credits
Agency & Client: McCann Worldgroup & Hush
Creative Director: David Schwarz, & Erik Karasyk
Live Action Director: David Schwarz
Lead Producer: Jessica Le
Art Director: Laura Alejo
Designers: Laura Alejo, David Schwarz, Wes Ebelhar
2D & 3d Animatiors: Wes Ebelhar, James Isaaks, Scott Hubbard, Jecheol (Jay) Kim, & Tim Haldeen
3d Modelers: Rob O’Neil, & Daniel Dawson

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Caballero de Argentina – Animator

This was one of the two spots I helped animate for an Argentinian wine. Carlo Vega designed rich boards supersaturated with texture, and Adam Gault beautifully rigged & started animating the horse. My role was animating, & polishing up the minor details.

It was great working with these two heavy hitters. Their organization, expression rigging, and overall production process was a great learning experience. It never would have happened if Adam didn’t go on vacation… thanks Adam.

Credits
Agency & Client: Bleu Blanche Rouge
Creative Director: Adam Gault & Carlo Vega
Design: Carlo Vega
Animation: Adam Gault,  Carlo Vega, & Tim Haldeen
Moral Suppot: Brian Sensebe

“Jamba Juice anyone?”

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Le Source: Wireless & Printer – Designer & Animator

The Circuit City of Canada needed two hip spots pushing their new wireless connectivity products during the “back to school” season. It was nice to have the time to experiment with an array of connector graphics at the beginning of this project. We knew the client was open to something poppy and fun, so we ran with it.

I designed a kit of shapes and textures (along with the other designers), that I ended up animating in a frankensteined particle system. Along with that  I created some 2.5D animated shapes that ended peppered throughout the spots. This was a great project to work on as the team was open to such abstract creativity.

Credits
Agency & Client : Doner Canada & Eyeball
Creative Director: Limore Shur & Hyejin Shur
Executive Producer: Mike Sullo
Art Director: Kazz Ishihara
Designer: Kazz Ishihara, Mara Smalley, Chris Williams & Tim Haldeen
Animator: George Sepulveda & Tim Haldeen

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Bridezilla’s Packaging – Art Director & Illustration

Women’s Entertainment’s #1 show needed a new show packaging for their anticipated 5th season. Mr. Wonderful wanted to create a stylish cartoon that would touch on of the stereo typical dramas of a wedding through a short whimsical parody.

When conceptualizing this story we figured that the Bride should be center stage at all times with all the action happening around her.  With that in mind I designed this initial frames almost as though it was a stage and she was literally on a pedestal. The backgrounds color would change depending on her mood, just as a plays lighting would in a real production.  The simple geometric style gave Bridezillas a fun feel, and allowed the team to move quickly when a revsion was needed.

I wanted the main bride to be beautiful but still have an edge to lose it when things weren’t going her way. I designed to doves were her little helpers throughout the spot (after all ever witch needs her familiars… kidding) and they also became helpful bringing “on and off” lower thirds and transitions.

Hey giiiiiiirl.

Not everyone was invited to the wedding.

Here were the thumbnails Beirne Lowery and I collaborated on to get the story and pacing initially.

One of the many things I love about Mr. Wonderful is their encouragement to draw everything out. This project was ridiculously fun to work on and its still one of my favorites.

Credits :
Agency & Client : WE tv & Mr. Wonderful
Creative Director: Beirne Lowry
Executive Producer: Damien Henderson
Producer: Laurie Duke
Art Director: Tim Haldeen
Design & Animation: Joe Boylin, George Sepulveda & Tim Haldeen

“What about the badonka donk?”

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Echo-Zulu: Air Force – Lead Animator

Three true “playable” accounts of the US Air Force’s day to day procedures. This is one of the animations that were used as story cinematics between flash game missions for this truly well constructed website. *click*

World Leaders brought me on as lead animator for the cinematics of this project. I created a background kit of paint strokes, and splatters and peppered them in Z space to give the camera moves some gritty parallaxing. This project was very well thought out and planned; little to no hiccups; it was just a matter of sitting still and getting it done. *click*

Credits:
Agency & Client: US Air Force &  World Leaders
Creative Director: Mike Foran
Executive Producer: Ben Stein
Illustrator: Rick Lacey, VJ Comando, and Todd Myers
Design & Animation: Justin Offner, Adam Modiano, & Tim Haldeen

Comcast To Go: Business & Residential - Lead Designer

Two fun and innovational spots that simulate a high speed wireless connection among a wide range of people, places, and interests. The idea behind this project was to create a virtual thought bubble personalized to each persons online activity while using Comcast’s new wireless product. Whew! In one word… Tronic!

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When designing these boards, there was a very solid idea from the get go. The thought bubbles needed recognizable internet elements mixed with realistic imagery to show each users personal interests. The idea was to include abstract 3d shapes in there to keep cohesiveness. The random keywords with unreadable small cascading paragraphs pushes the “gmunk” feel over the edge. I was lead designer on this fun and flexible project.

Credits:
Agency & Client : Berlin Cameron United & Tronic
Creative Director: Jessie Seppi
Art Director: Vivian Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Jeff Wolfe
Producer: Julie Tondreau
Compositor:  Greg Anderson
Design: Dami You, & Tim Haldeen
3D Modeling & Animation:  Ruoyu Li, Pete Germano, Saas Alayyoubi,  Ryan Roland, and Joe Grundfast

Starbucks Grassroot Movement – Animator

Starbucks needed an exciting and supportive promo before inauguration day for Barack Obama. So Lifelong Friendship Society jumped right on that hope train and hired a small army of animators to knock out Travis Spanglers retro illustrations and type. MC Yogi’s rap leads the timing of this “see & say” piece that calls all coffee drinkers to “join hands” and pledge 5 hours of community service for a tall brew.

I was brought on by LFS to help animate and design the shot list in co-ordinance with the lyrics. The palette was set, and a slew of elements and type were designed. The verses of the song and their assets were divided among the animators. In the end I got the opportunity to design a few elements aswell, (from the heart to the hot air balloon). This project took a couple days off my life but was well worth it in the end.

Credits
Agency & Client: BBDO & Lifelong Friendship Society
Creative Director: Travis Spangler
Executive Producer: Dan Sormani
Producer: Bridgette Spalding
Animation: Mark Phillips, Alex Miller, Rosie Garchina, Llly Feng, Ish Nazmi, Matt Andrews, & Timothy Haldeen
Pet Turtle:  B

“Take that body.”

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MTV Sucker Free – Art Director & Illustration

Sucker Free had special appearance of Funk Master Flex that needed a cobranded promo with Castrol Syntec Motor Oil. I was given a loose script surrounding some ideas of a “auto swap meet” and I ran with it.
This was one of the first projects I was given full creative freedom of with an extremely tight deadline. Everyone who had final say on this project was super happy and very flexible. I love going from storyboards to the final render.

Credits
Agency & Client : MTV Netowrks & Guerilla FX
Art Director: Tim Haldeen
Executive Producer: Theresa Drexler
Designer: Tim Haldeen
Animation: Vance Miller & Tim Haldeen

Xerox Endtag Designs – Designer & Animator

Xerox wanted to flex their new logo with an iconic end tag for all of their campaigns for years to come. The goal was to expand their brand presence from the office copy room to a household name, pushing the public’s awareness of their various products other than copy machines. Xerox provided several playful new  icons and wanted to explore the imagery of  “connection lines” into the new logo.

These first boards I thought to design playful, using the provided assets. Although, what I didn’t take into consideration was that Xerox no longer wanted to be known as a copy machine.

In this next set of boards I designed the “connection lines” wrapping around the new pill shaped logo. I wanted to keep the environment clean and modern with interesting reflections and hard cuts. The idea was not to have the logo build on, but rather show it as if it had always existed, catching it in a moment. Unfortunately, these boards didn’t make the cut.

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This was the approved endtag.  Sometimes the client wants the simplest of things and we as motion designers over think a project. Better to explore simple first and then build, (at least for this project). In the end there was time put in to multiple versions and eventually it was approved. Perseverance pays!

Credits
Agency & Client: Interbrand & UVPHactory
Creative Director: Scott Sindorf & Damijan Saccio
Art Director: Alexandre Moors
Executive Producer
Designer: Victor Lau, Jeff Baghai, Eric Epstien, & Tim Haldeen
Animator: Scott Sindorf, Eric Epstien, Jon Clausing, & Tim Haldeen

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Sun-Moon – Animator

Own Your Own C is an eclectic online community based in Colorado that motivates the awareness of cigarette addiction.  Sun-Moon is one of the kooky 5 spots Life Long Friendship and Cactus did to promote the launch of their new site. It’s a quick narrative reminding us that one thing is connected to another.

I was assigned to animate Travis Spangler’s illustrations for this piece. He had polygonal creatures, a soft colorful palette,  and a brief script of how they would interact with each other. I broke them up, labled the parts, rigged the pieces, and made a couple keyframes. Fun and simple. This was the first time I had worked with LFS, but not the last. Thier team has hyper creative minds, great attitudes, and are a riot to hang with in and out of the office.

Agency & Client : Cactus & Life Long Friendship Society
Creative Director: Brian Close
Executive Producer: Dan Sormani
Art Direction: Travis Spangler
Producer: Bridgette Spalding
Animation:  Mark Phillips & Tim Haldeen