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Death Star Trench vs Runaways

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Mos Eisley Cantina vs David Bowie

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After seeing Guardians of the Galaxy I wondered what Star Wars would be like with an Awesome Mix soundtrack. John Williams is perfect but turns out it works pretty well.

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I updated the website for 50BookPledge.ca for 2014, making it cleaner and easier to use. As well as choosing a more subtle colour scheme, the layout has changed to correspond to tablets and readers. The logo has also been cleaned up with a crisp and graphic flat design. Created in Illustrator, all coding done by 84North Studios.

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:30 spot for After Her by Joyce Maynard. This aired on W Network sometime after the long weekend. Very simple depth creation here with the trees for some of the images and wipes.

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:30 spot for The Search Angel by Tish Cohen. This aired across the country this summer on W Network. As you can see I used a lot of stock footage for this and some very cool light bleed transitions

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Here's my entry to the Toronto International Film Festival's 2013 tshirt contest.

Unfortunately it was not selected as a finalist, but I still think it's a really striking design that would look great printed out.

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:30 spot I put together for Graeme Simsion's novel The Rosie Project which aired on W Network across Canada this past weekend.

The bright, quirky cover design and the scientific themes of the plot gave me the opportunity to create some bold and graphic animation for this project.

For those interested, you can find the great folk-inspired audio track used in the commercial right here.

Created in After Effects!

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Notable Canadian personalities recite "Alligator Pie" Dennis Lee's classic children's poem

This has been long in the works (over a year!) so I'm really glad it's finally out for everyone to watch. Some of the footage was filmed myself but others were sent in, and I created the opening/closing pieces and stitched everything together in After Effects.

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Recently I designed and helped to develop the 2013 50 Book Pledge website including this year's badge image at the top left of the site.

Booklovers who both want to challenge themselves and keep track of what titles they've read over the course of the year can add books to their own personalized shelf, see what their friends are reading, and share their progress.

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Ad for Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store that was in the late November issue of Now Magazine

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Small ad for Derek Sanderson's autobiography that ran in the Chronicle Herald

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Advertisement for Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize win for Bring Up The Bodies.

This ran in papers across the country: Chronicle Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette & Edmonton Journal

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Ad I designed that ran in the Toronto Star & Halifax Chronicle Herald for Bernard Cornwell's historical novel 1356.

3 stock photos that made up the piece: 

Castle: http://photodune.net/item/castle/2475030

Fire: http://photodune.net/item/flame-and-sparks-isolated-over-black-background/2142335

Sky: http://photodune.net/item/sky/3308161

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The 2012 holiday card for HarperCollins Canada that I designed and painted. I rearranged the layout to view it a bit better, but when you open the card you see the Inuit inside the igloo on the front cover.

Be sure to watch the animated version of the card here

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A short little holiday animation created for HarperCollins Canada. I painted the images with watercolour for the company's holiday card, scanned and simply animated everything in After Effects.

You can check out the printed version of the card here

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Check out this cool little video I put together for HarperCollinsCanada celebrating 100,000 fans on Facebook! It took a lot of books but I think it worked out pretty good.

Created in After Effects!