Many of my ideas have been inspired by movies, and my career is no different. It started back in high school, when I watched Pixar's Inside Out. While I connected with the concepts of suppressed emotions and fear of change, I was also heavily inspired by how animation was used to tell a story that resonated with audiences and especially me. Fortunately, I had "dabbled" in 3D when I was 10 or 11 being the child prodigy that I was. By dabbled I mean I made a pipe from Mario out of two cylinders, and then promptly never opened the software again until high school, but we all have to start somewhere right?
I never really considered design a career option initially. My original plan was to aim for either computer science or computer hardware engineering, but after I started exploring graphic design, and then later on Blender/motion design, I was hooked. Now I combine my eye for graphic design with my technical knowledge in motion design to bring static designs to life in a way that is not just seen, but remembered.
"Measure twice, cut once." I think that sums up my process, because whenever I get a project, I first spend at least a few hours just imagining how the end result should look and feel before creating anything. Over the years, I have discovered that my best office space is in the shower. What can I say? The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
I pride myself on constantly learning and experimenting, so I have built up quite a broad software arsenal. Here are some of the relevant (and some not so relevant to design) pieces of software I am familiar with!
- Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Animate, XD, Lightroom, Acrobat)
- Blender 3D
- Cinema 4D
- Autodesk Fusion
- Unreal Engine
- Twinmotion
- TouchDesigner
- OBS
- vMix
- Audacity
- Google Web Designer
- Webflow
- Affinity Design Suite (Designer, Photo, Publisher)
- Apple Pro Apps (Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Motion)
- Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Word)
- Apple Work (Keynote, Numbers)
- MacOS, Windows, iPadOS
Will this help me get hired? Probably not... but because many of my designs have been inspired by movies/media, these may give some insight into who I am as a designer.
- Inside Out 1 / 2
- Soul
- Elemental
- Pacific Rim
- Tron: Legacy
- Total Recall
- Minority Report
- Bicentennial Man
- I, Robot
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Iron Man 1 / 2 / 3
- Mission Impossible (The entire series but in particular, Ghost Protocol)
- Spongebob Squarepants (The first 4 seasons)
