The Moon Followed Me th Falmouth
The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth in 2022, I had to privilege of directing a wonderful music video for sea shanty called The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth. Working from the base story in the song and some ideas from the Kurt Rosenberg the composer, we created the story of a sailor who [...]
Rent A Center – Happiness App
Rent-A-Center Happiness App The Happiness App is a spot I directed this year. A new character introduction for the Rent A Center brand for a national ad campaign. The character "Cinch" was designed in-agency and brought to us for a facelight, followed by a 30 second animated spot. There was the idea of [...]
SCV
Secure Component Verification Another spot for a department at Dell. There is a big push for security right now, with everything moving to the cloud, and the incessant hacks you hear about on the news. The general direction for the spot was to have a highly technical feel, but with a hint of [...]
Dell EcoLoop
Dell EcoLoop This is a spot I conceived and directed for Dell and its soft goods department. The goal was to creatively showcase two aspects of their eco-friendly process: low water usage to create the thread dye, and a PVB plastic recycling process to coat their bags. But it wasn't a technical illustration [...]
Vaccination TN
#ImmunizeTN This is a spot brought to us by an add agency for a series of adds for the Tennessee Department of Health. It was a fun process where we were able to go out and source some local voice talents to bring life to the characters. There was a brief moment when we [...]
Abby Hatcher Promo
Abby Hatcher " the Oath" Promo This was a fun spot I got to work on last year. Nickleodeon was about to launch this new show and wanted to get some social media promo going. Starting from rough storyboard and audio recording and 3D assets Magnetic Dreams was in charge of building out [...]
Dell MX
Dell MX series This is a series of spots I producer and directed for the new MX servers released by Dell in 2018. Well, I also did the lighting and compositing on them....not quite the one man shop as I had some great artists help me out in specific areas. Jackon Miller did an [...]
The Wingfeather Saga
The Wingfeather Saga Short film I had the opportunity to work on The Wingfeather Saga animated short this year. It was a great project all around: great story, great art, super talented team, etc... The animated short was funded through a super successful Kickstarter campaign. There were a core pre-production and directorial team composed of industry veterans. [...]
Fall Anthem
A fun spot I directed for Nickelodeon's fall lineup. We worked closely with Nickelodeon's creative crew to bring this piece to life. Woking from rotoscoped or prerendered 3d, we crafted together this changing of season narrative, moving from one set to another, with the characters generating the change. The difficulty n a spot like this is a that [...]
DellEMC 14G
This the 3rd generation of Dell servers I get t work on. This one has all the bells and whistles you could want in your server room apparently. I wish we had these as our render farm! This was a fun spot to direct, and I got to work with great artists. A lot [...]
Paw Patrol
Paw Patrol promos Nickelodeon contacted Magnetic Dreams to help out on some promotional work for upcoming segments of the franchise Paw Patrol. My kids loved Paw Patrol, so I had to hop onto the project. I've directed three promotional series so far: Mission Paw Sea Patrol Sea Patrol The Next Wave Sometimes we're [...]
Priceless
I had the opportunity to work on the movie "Priceless" this year. Specifically, I was asked to help come up with some designed end credits. The movie's narrative takes place around the theme of human trafficking. Though it's a fictional movie, it was written based on true stories. Needless the say the theme is [...]
RED Awards 2016
We worked with ad agency Brand Apart and creative director Blaine Hogan to come up with a fresh new style for Chick-fil-A Red Awards ceremony. After several rounds of research, we settled on what we called the "prismatic" look. Geometric shapes break the screen up as light leaks creep into the frame. There was [...]
Summer Forever
I had the opportunity to work on the opening titles of Relativity Media's Summer Forever. The director Roman White, wanted me to work up something fun, fresh summer and California like. Well, I've grew up on the beaches of France...not quite the west coast. But I thought I had an idea of what he wanted. We [...]
Dell IDrac Quicksync
Spot I directed for Dell that shows off some of the new technology found in the 13th generation Dell servers. Great work from Wenie Rahardja on the shattering fx side (done in softimage), as well as Tim Crowson on the lighting and rendering. [...]
Chick-Fil-A 50 Years
For this quick turn-around project for Chick-Fil-A, we were asked to create a camera move through a series of changing environments, starting with a 1960s decor, and moving up through the present day. I got some excellent help with some initial research and concept art by Astrid Riemer, who was able to jump [...]
Dell FX Architecture
This is my latest Dell project to see the light of day. I've worked on many Dell spots over the years, but unfortunately most of them don't make it to the surface. Usually, these are internal spots that are meant for Dell executives or high profile clients of Dell. This project started out as such. It [...]
We Both Know Colbie Caillat
Top music video director Roman White approached Magnetic Dreams to help create set and set extensions for his "we both know" music video. The song is set to be part of the soundtrack for the movie "Safe Haven". I would say that 80% of the video was shot over green screen, with a [...]
Yellow Day
Yellow Day is an independent movie presenting a fictional story that takes pace in a real location, Camp Grace in Mobile, Alabama. The movie alternates between cg imagery and footage. The animation section takes us into a more metaphorical world. I handled a good portion of the cg compositing for the show. We delivered [...]
You Are Here
Television commercial for Amridge University. This University specializes in online education. The spot emphasizes the fact that learning can happen anywhere. It was a fun spot to work on. I got to write the script for it, storyboard it and Art direct it. I even made some previz for it to show client what to [...]