Ranger Energy Services contracted me to create this animation in order to showcase their equipment. The company has been taking full advantage of having a 3D layout of their products in action, utilizing them for their flyers and presentations. The process of creating this video was arduous but extremely beneficial to the company. Round after round of scrim would reveal new missing details or changes that were overlooked the previous go around. I've never worked on a job in this industry, but after working on this project and talking to enough consultants about it -- I probably could. I added a dark background focus effect for some shots to keep the animation [...]

My wife wanted a wedding video to have fond memories of the day. In order to save money, I asked the videographer to only come on the wedding day to record footage. He was not responsible for editing any of the video footage, which is a hefty source of the cost. Once I obtained the raw footage, I put together a short wedding video of my own. Extremely pleased with the final result, my wife shared the video on all forms of social media.

This animation showreel is a small showcase of my 2D animation capabilities. My animations have won various awards and have been featured on local television stations in the Houston area. Some of the animations shown were made for commercial purposes, others for personal projects. Both were added to display a wider range of animation styles that I can do for clientele.

This showreel is focused on 3D Animations created underneath my graphic design subscription business, as a contractor. Companies like to utilize 3D as a unique way to display their products. It’s more fun to look at than a static image. Several valve companies in the area found my quality of work to be well worth it, which is why a majority of this video is about valves. I put a lot of effort into materials and lighting so your product looks as pristine as possible.

Symphonic Tower Defense is a solid flash game created by Jon Sandness and myself. Using both Flash and Photoshop, I animated all the effects and designed the layout of the game. It's a tower-defense that revolves around the music playing at the time. We started off planning to use one ridiculously long song, but over time we realized that single short levels were way more fun. Each tower type gets a boost from a particular instrument of the song. The menus were inspired by music games like Dance Dance Revolution and the actual gameplay area uses a lot of musical elements. Some of our most enthusiastic evangelists are musicians who really appreciated [...]

I was approached by a medical animation company in Houston who needed to outsource a 2D white board animation because their focus is mainly 3D animation. My 2D animation skills are fairly rare in this area, so I worked with their client to create this animation explaining the treatment. The animation was played during a live Houston television interview while an employee and satisfied customer discussed their treatment plan.

Pig valves are used to essentially wipe the interior of a pipe and prevent blockages. Chaoda's latest patented design is unique in that it loads from the side with a latch door that only opens after the valve has been depressurized and drained. This video was made to explain the perks and functionality of this particular design.

Chaoda USA is a valve company that wanted to showcase their product in a more interesting way. Breaking down each part of the valve is the best way to do so. I created a hierarchical part structure for the valve and was able to animate the pieces in a way that both made sense and was visually pleasing to the eye. This valve in particular is called a Metal Seated Ball Valve, because the seats that cradle both sides of the ball are made of metal as well.

COOPER Valves has a product line of metal seated ball valves that are extremely advantageous in many industries. I made these videos for a loop at tradeshows. They would play continuously for several hours. They installed a television in the company's lobby and put the video on loop as well. Many industrial tradeshows get visited by Cooper each year, including POWERGEN, HRSG, AFPM, and more. Cooper Valves was a standout amongst the crowd with these videos, and gathered quite a following.

This project was about recreating a movie title sequence. The song, "Opera of the Frogs" by e-d was one that I had DYING to animate for almost eight years. This was my strongest opportunity. I watched Coraline just once and took notes of important characters and plot elements that I could abstract. I wanted to emphasize Coraline's tomboy personality. I make her run instead of walk and animate her hopping in puddles. She's a curious one who explores, ignoring danger along the way. The font was probably the most difficult final decision to make.

This short is about a talented lyricist who refuses to be himself. I began writing the plots for Relive Your Life 2 and noticed that a lot of my story tree was getting really political. This contrasted the whimsical and goofy nature of the original game. While perfecting the style for the game, I began animating this short.It features a rhyming narration by Josh Tomar and a very emotional performance by Michael Johnston. Most people relate to the protagonist, even if they are not in the same situation. It's a story about the difficulties of remaining sincere to yourself. This short animation received an Honorable Mention at the Texas Independent Film Festival [...]

Enersafe had bought a LED sign to have right outside the Midland office, but were only displaying unattractive still images. I took the initiative to follow the brand's colored sectional theme and create a short loop highlighting the three biggest departments at the Midland office.This is by far the best advertising quality in the small town, which has been attracting several more customers ever since the swap was made. The bright, saturated colors were great for grabbing people's attention as they drive down the highway.

With the purpose of proposing an alternative to paper usage in schools, firstly I needed to emphasize the drastic effect it has on the environment in its current standing. This was done as a graphic design project, but also as a pitch to the Aggie Green Fund for a potential grant. The project was broken into three parts, each initiated by the phrase "Did You Know?" Part one is about highlighting the problem, so it has a red and yellow colorscheme. Part two details the destruction occurring to nature, so the green colors work well here. Part three talks about why nature needs to be preserved, so a comforting blue and pink [...]

Starting with a Kinect camera, TouchDesigner, a projector, and a few more webcameras, Laura Murphy and I set up a system that utilized projection mapping's most apparent flaw. Shadows cast by the projector are an important factor, rather than a hindrance, with our setup.We then gave the system to the Texas A&M dance department, where they created costumes and choreographed a dance that took full advantage of the technology. The video explains the whole process.

This project utilized a kinect camera's joint data to track joint angles and hand motions. Based on the user's movements, colored fireflies would spawn and the user's hands could influence them significantly.We gave our program to the dance department at A&M to test and critique. They decided to use our system for a small performance to show the art in action. Interactive pieces like these have a lot of potential. It was a lot of fun to essentially toss light around using your body movement.

The full title is "Lil' Einstein's Manhattan Project" and it's still one of my favorite games to play. Programmer Andrew Virostek and I started with an idea that a plane would drop a bomb and cause as much destruction as possible through chain reactions. It's a cute premise based on a dark day in history. Make enough money to upgrade your bomb to the atomic bomb before your science project is due. Overall this is a fun and challenging game. The artistic style was chosen to mimic the idea of a paper diorama, and the whole game partakes in Einstein's garage.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/539834

Derpasaurus Rex was a simple idea. An obliviously overenthusiastic dinosaur that means well, but crushes all in its path. Working with Noah Scammon for writing and voice acting, I spent some time figuring out what style I wanted to work with. We wanted the dinosaur to be an outcast, so he's shaded and fully colored which contrasts with the world's simple and sloppy coloring. Essentially, we started writing a basic scenario like going to the doctors and then tossed in a hyperactive talking dinosaur and thought, "What could possibly go wrong?"It's a silly short animation created purely for our own entertainment.