Client: Parle Agro Creative Agency: &Walsh Creative Director: Jessica Walsh Art Director: Lucas Luz Director: Drew Kirsch Production Company: Tomorrow Post-Production: DI Post Executive Producers: John Poliquin, Colin Minihan Producer: Meika Wagner Editors: Ben Winter, Ben Knechtel Colorist: fortyork.tv Post Audio: Timeline Audio VFX Supervisor: Karl Hein Concept Artists: Nick Stechyson, Kate Raymond Character Animation: Wade Cross, Andrew Embury Modelling: Alex Sheludchenko Rigging: Chris LeSage AR Plugin/Connection Toolkit: Brielle Garcia Compositing: Karl Hein
Client: Baskin-Robbins Agency: 22Squared Post: DI Post Director: John Poloquin Producers: Colin Minihan, Meika Wagner Editors: Ben Winter, Ben Knechtel VFX/Compositing: Karl Hein
Brave Wilderness—a YouTube channel headed by Coyote Peterson—was making the jump from online to broadcast with their new show Brave the Wild on Animal Planet. I worked to define the show’s graphic aesthetic, and from there, oversee the production all of the assets needed for their first season.
We began with exploring the logo/title treatment, as this would inform the look and feel of the rest of the graphics that followed. NOTE: About halfway through the design process, the show's title was changed from Beyond Brave to Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild.
Final Logo/Title Design
From there, the team began building out the other assets needed for the show, including a fully customizable, realistic Earth that worked natively in After Effects. The template makes use of the VC Orb plugin as well as 8K texture maps. It also gave the Brave Wilderness team the ability to search for locations by name, and have the show's location marker auto-snap to that location in 3D space, making the setup and rendering of these maps (over 15 in total) simple and easy.
3D Earth After Effects Template
Another huge undertaking for this project was the illustrated animal fact portion of the show, known as infopods. Our idea was to present these like Coyote himself takes notes in the field—through a journal. For these sections, we made over 50 custom illustrations of interesting animal facts and brought them to life through subtle camera moves and animation.
Proposed Infopod Style
Final Infopod Style
Credits
Client: Wilderness Productions | Animal Planet Director: Karl Hein Producer: Kate Wilke Designers: Karl Hein, Jonny Sidlo, Audrey Stemen Illustrator: Christine Lee Animator: Karl Hein Editor: Kurt Keaner
Wolf's Ridge Brewing wanted to start producing more social content to promote not just their beers, but some of the stories behind the beers. From this, I developed the WRB Storytellers Series, with each video showcasing a member of the staff talking in-depth and improvisationally about their favorite aspects of the restaurant or brewery.
The biggest challenge for this series was the budget. With only a limited amount of hours we could spend, we had to develop a system for these videos that could be executed quickly and efficiently. We landed on a very crude, cutout stop-motion style—heavily influenced by shows like Tom Goes to the Mayor. We quickly became well-acquainted with Photoshop's "Select Subject" tool, and created an FX preset for After Effects that handled all of the character styling.
Director: Karl Hein Producer: Mike Gillespie Designer: Audrey Stemen Animators: Karl Hein, Audrey Stemen Audio Engineer: Kody Orris Photographer: Justin Havey
With (at the time) the biggest MLB scoreboard being installed in their stadium, the Cleveland Indians approached us to completely overhaul the design and animation of their in-stadium program.
Our team did an in-depth analysis at the information hierarchy of the scoreboard, taking into account what the people in the stadium needed to see, wanted to see, and would be nice if they saw.
Previous Design // Proposed Design
Previous Design // Proposed Design
From there, we developed an updated graphic look for all of the in-stadium materials including bumpers, big play graphics, and player intros. To manage the huge amount of animation this project took, we developed a custom animation template that could be share between artist easily. This kept all of the graphics consistent, no matter which artist was working on the project at that time. All in all, this was an amazing project to work on, especially for the Indians fans in the studio. Go Tribe!
Final Scoreboard Stringout
Additional Graphics
Director: Karl Hein Producer: Richard Charney Designer: Karl Hein Animators: Steve Tharp, Marco Cardenas, Morgan James, Josh Studabaker, Jeremy Patterson
For the second season of their hit show Baskets, FX Networks came to Spacejunk asking for a creative pitch for the promo graphics they would run throughout the season. We presented 3 concepts, all based around the show's main themes, with a dash of Paris in each. While we ultimately didn't win the pitch, the work was stellar and we all had a blast developing the ideas.
Initial working type layouts
Confetti on a Parisian Street
Velvet Renoir
Objets d'un Bouffon
Director: Karl Hein Producer: Andrew Schneider Designers: Karl Hein, Alex Trimpe Animators: Chris Meister, Alex Trimpe
