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Here’s the signal film we put together for the 2006 Ottawa Animation Festival – whatta show! Towards the end there I go into animation saturation mode walking out of short film screenings in a daze trying to remember what I just watched. This was a great year being the 30th(!) year of the festival, and this odd-duck signal film was well-recieved. It’s jam-packed with a bunch of different scenes in various styles by a number of talented animators who are excellent people to work with.

Click below to view the signal film:

• view more: Ottawa Animation Festival – Signal Film 2006

I designed and directed this series of bumpers for Nickelodeons Nicktoons animation focused digital tv channel. The cat character was originally designed for a different nickelodeon project, but they were keen on using it to brand nicktoons. I have an affection for characters with featureless or blank expressions like this cat, I like the way their mood is vague and up for interpretation.

These station ids were created in Maya and rendered with a toonshader (ironically called ‘tomcat’). Final compositing was finished in After Effects. The music was created by Dennis Burke.

view the animation here:

• view more: Kittikat – Nickelodeon

This identity package was created for the launch of New York based College Sports Television. For the original pitch I designed a world made out of sports gear including tennis ball hills, but apparently CSTV doesnt cover tennis so that was out. Instead we built these station ids around the #1 hand character and had it interacting with this semi-nostalgic sports world where sports trophies have a marching bands and the clouds are made out of volleyballs.

• view more: Sportsland – CSTV