Photo Gallery
Practical FX (Makeup/Puppets)
This is one of three alien rod puppets built for my sci-fi comedy short film INVASION 1938!
Construction on the Alien Commander rod puppet for my sci-fi comedy short INVASION 1938!
My Alien Commander rod puppet built for my sci-fi comedy short film INVASION 1938!
Trigger controlled corpse head puppet. Made with a fake skull, liquid latex, cotton, and paint. Originally made in 2013.
Trigger for jaw movement.
A mask I made for a Halloween video in 2015
The mask on it's own. Made it with a plastic face mask, latex, face paint, and fake blood.
Early stage of a snowman puppet I made for Ball State University's late show BSU Tonight.
Later progress on snowman puppet I made for Ball State University's late show BSU Tonight.
My snowman puppet performed in studio during the Xmas 2016 special of BSU Tonight, the student-run late night show at Ball State University.
These are puppets I had designed for BSU Tonight. These are simplistic wooden puppets operated from a small hole under a table, with mouths added in post.
The first puppet to be featured on BSU Tonight.
Puppet and set were made by me. The snowman was added digitally, but I still made it
A muppet-style puppet I first made in high school, but finally got use in the 16th season of BSU Tonight.
Digital FX (Motion Graphics/Animation)
Used green screen, masking, and color correction to blend an alien rod puppet and a miniature spaceship set in INVASION 1938.
Blending animated clouds and plane in real footage I recorded for a concept bumper for the college late show BSU Tonight.
In this effect from "Mission Immersive," the lead has entered the movie he was watching and the portal is the cinema exit doors. It was fun trying to integrate this animated door graphic into the footage.
One of the visual effects I used for my student film "Mission Immersive".
Another effect from "Mission Immersive", where the end credits of a movie take over the sky.
An animated character who is one of the many VFX pieces for my dark spoof of 50s educational films "The Wet World of Water."
This was one of the more complex effects to pull of in "The Wet World of Water," where the possessed lead character destroys his reality by escaping the end title card.
For a project in my motion graphics class, I put animated stick figures into the real world in my student short "Stick Lives."
Video Gallery
(COMING SOON) INVASION 1938
(Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Puppets and FX)
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What if alien invaders had come to Earth on the same night the infamous War of the Worlds radio play was first broadcast? The answer is... not what you'd expect.
Production began on October 2018 and was completed in late-July 2019. It is currently being submitted to festivals before being fully uploaded.
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THE WET WORLD OF WATER
(Writer, Co-director, Editor, Animator, Digital FX)
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Poor young Wally doesn't understand the importance of water, until he learns from a cartoon drop named Drippy. But not all is right with the lessons in this dark satire of 1950s educational films.
Special thanks to my parter John Van Dam and our cast for helping to pull this off. This project was originally made for my Telecommunications Advanced Video Production class at Ball State University in 2016.
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*Music is from the public domain or royalty free from incompetech.com
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*2017 Frog Baby Film Festival Official Selection*
MISSION IMMERSIVE
(Writer, Co-director, Editor, Digital FX)
After disrupting the latest spy flick, one bad moviegoer will pay the price!
This is a project I made for my Advanced Video Production class in Telecommunications at Ball State University in 2016. Thanks to my project partner, John VanDam, and all the cast/crew members involved for making this film work as well as it did (for a micro-budget student film).
*All music is royalty-free from incompetech.com
**This short is not sponsored or endorsed by AMC Theaters
BSU TONIGHT BUMPER REEL 2015-2016
(Producer, Director, Editor, Animator)
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These are bumpers I made for the fifteenth season of Ball State University's student-run late night show, BSU TONIGHT. Some have been used in the show, others remain as concepts.
BSU Tonight Links
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Political Puppets (Director, Writer, Editor, Puppets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtewDXcBeM
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X-Mas Special 2016 (Snowman Puppet 4:10-7:30)
https://youtu.be/KAaFiBGtjSA?t=4m10s
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