A new medical group based in Vancouver reached out to do an explainer. They wanted pro but playful. I really enjoyed the colours they chose to work with. Kept things looking clean and fresh.

ONCALYSIS

Blueshyft is Australia’s most advanced in-store payment gateway. A national network of over 1,500+ retailer locations is equipped with Blueshyft’s iOS platform, enabling customers to pay for digital goods and services via an in-store iPad. The company needed a n explainer video to introduce and further promote the concept and business to the ever growing digital market. 

The second animation below was completed the following year. I made sure to keep the brand look and feel consistent. It's always a fun challenge making a monetary subject connect with human emotion. 

Project:BlueShyft Explainer Animation
Client: Blueshyft
<a href="https://www.blueshyft.com.au/">blueshyft.com.au</a>
Role: Motion Graphics Artist and Graphic Designer/ Illustrator

BLUESHYFT

Talented storyteller, writer and speaker Ian Mackenzie reached out to me for a vision for the titles of this wonderfully insightful and profound documentary. 

For years, Stephen Jenkinson led the palliative care department at a major Canadian hospital. Sitting at the deathbeds of over 1000 people, he discovered again and again “a wretched anxiety” around death. He recognized this death phobia it is not a personal issue, but a symptom of a larger cultural absence, including the loss of elders. Soon after Stephen and his wife Nathalie opened the Orphan Wisdom School – a learning house for “elders-in-training.” He headed on the road one more time, alongside veteran Canadian musician Gregory Hoskins for the ‘Nights of Grief and Mystery’ tour. LOST NATION ROAD weaves a compelling case for what happened to elders in this culture, the consequence on youth today, and what can be done for the generations to come.


The idea I came up with is to use the play of 'Road'. I created a set of layered paths which symbolize the journeys we all take from birth to death. Roads cross cross each other in the same way as peoples paths. Like roads on untouched land, wrinkles naturally appear on peoples faces over time. Sparkle appear across the roads which symbolise the beautiful souls and experiences.

This short film was really influential and powerfully moving. I recommend everyone to take 30mins to watch it. 

Project: Lost Nation Road<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Ll8SCNZ4E"> Youtube</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist and Graphic Designer
Client: Ian Mackenzie
Director: Ian Mackenzie

LOST NATION ROAD TITLES

A 19th-century Armenian writer living in Japan becomes the de facto ambassador of a lost nation. Mini goes on a journey in sharing her Grandmother's incredible story and fascinating Armenian history to match. It was a wonderful experience remaking these maps to help Mimi bring this story to life. it was an honor. 

Many hours were spend trying to match the available old diagrams and maps together in photoshop to help bring my version to life. 

Project: The Stateless Diplomat 
<a href="https://dianaapcar.org">dianaapcar.org</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist, Graphic Designer
Client: Peace Films Inc
Executive Producer: Mimi Malayan
Director: Artur Muradyan

THE STATELESS DIPLOMAT

Servmetrics reached out to me to create an animation that helps tell their digital marketing story. It gave me an opportunity to practice working my illustration skills. It's also a good challenge to turn something that doesn't sound exciting at face value into a fun story that grabs your attention.


Project: Servmetrics Animation
Role: Motion Graphics Artist, Graphic Design, Audio effects

SERVMETRICS

The powerful live broadcast company Liveit teamed up with The Robert Batemen Gallery to create an exciting VR experience. Partnering up with Liveit, I was required to create the entire 360 experience that would be experienced using Playstion VR hardware inside the gallery.

Liveit founder and CEO Mike Irvine and I took a very special trip to Chatham Island to film some of the landscape Robert pulled inspiration from. We also were treated with a visit to Robert's home where we had a private tour of his art-filled residence. 

This was my first VR project and even though there were many stress-filled late nights, hair pulled out from things going wrong and getting nowhere many times, it was also very rewarding and I learned to really appreciate this new art form. It really challenges you to think outside of the box of traditional storytelling techniques. 

Project: Robert Bateman 360 
<a href="https://https://batemancentre.org/exhibits/bateman-nature-360/">batemancentre.org</a>

Role: Creative Director and Motion Graphics Artist
Client: Liveit and The Bateman Center
 
 

One of the risks I took was meddling with an artist's art in order to make it 'more' interactive. I took one of Robert's famous Paintings 'The Wave' and animated it. I made sure to do it delicately as to not disrespect the work. Luckily enough, Robert was delighted with the result and I was allowed to work on 4 artworks in the same manner for this project. 

It was an honor to work on this project and with Canadian living legend, Robert Bateman.

ROBERT BATEMAN 360

LIVING WHILE DYING may serve as a tribal hearth in this way, as it both models ways of conducting “difficult” conversations around death, and shows how individuals, through their behavior and words, can bring presence and integrity to the sacred final phase of life.

Director Cathy Zheutlin approached me to create with a few pieces of motion graphics to support her narration in her film. I used this opportunity to partner up with a talented local Fine Artist Allison Parker and create emotive and thoughtful artworks that evoke what Cathy was feeling throughout the film. 

It is really rewarding to be able to use and harness feelings in art creation and it was a humbling and revealing experience working with this subject matter. 

Project: Living While Dying 
<a href="https://www.livingwhiledying.org/film//">livingwhiledying.org</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist, Graphic Designer
Fine Artist: Allison Parker Cont her via email: Allisonmarieparker@gmail.com
Client: Peace Films Inc
Director: Cathy Zheutlin

LIVING WHILE DYING

“As the name Stratevi suggests, the company seamlessly integrates strategy and evidence. Stratevi provides handcrafted strategies and supports evidence development and communication for their biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device partners to ensure that the value of their product is clearly understood. I was approach by the wonderful team at Unreasonable Media to create Strategy's first ever video explaining Strategy's brand and mission. We decided on giving it a real human element thats warm and approachable using character animation. 

Project: American Visionary Titles 
<a href="https://www.stratevi.com/">http://www.stratevi.com/</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist, Graphic Design, Sound engineering
Client: Unreasonable Media
Creative Director: Larissa Rhodes, Mark Crawford

STRATEVI WELCOME VIDEO

Not too long before 2020 and Covid-19 came along, I actually worked on the most presently relevant project - Pandemic. 

Seqirus, an arm of CLS and global force in influenza vaccines has also recently celebrated 100 years in being on the frontline of protection.Seqirus was kind enough to give us access to so much historical footage which was wonderful to work with. It was incredible to work on so many vintage photos and bring them to life. Always pushing myself, I tried new techniques which I used for CLS the year before. I also had to create an intro to a shorty documentary. It had to be fast-paced, violent, scary and tell a story in 30 seconds. Hope you enjoy. 

Project: Pandemic 1918 
<a href="https://www.seqirus.com">seqirus.com</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist and Graphic Designer
Client: Seqirus
Director: Simon Dikkenberg - Who and Why Media

PANDEMIC 1918

“Barbara Marx Hubbard has become the voice for conscious evolution in our times.”– Deepak Chopra. Need I say more. I had the opportunity to work on the titles for the anticipated documentary about Barbara Marx Hubbard's life. She has spent more than 50 years doing in-depth research and practice to unlock the mysteries of the human potential and bring about the birth of what she calls “the Universal Human”: an awakened, heart-centered being that lives in harmony with itself, the earth and all of life.

Project: American Visionary Titles 
<a href="https://www.americanvisionarythemovie.com/">www.americanvisionarythemovie.com/</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist and Graphic Designer
Client: New Doc Editing
Director: Karen Everett
Audio Effects: David Ochudzawa

American Visionary Titles

CSL is a global specialty biotherapeutics company that develops and delivers innovative biotherapies. Celebrating 100 years of developing life saving products, CSL asked to produce a gala film and a 6 episode part series. The challenge was to bring their historical archives to life using fresh animation and design techniques.

Project: CSL A Brief History 
<a href="https://www.csl100.com.au/gallery/csl-a-brief-history">csl100.com.au</a>

Role: Motion Graphics Artist and Graphic Designer
Client: CSL
Director: Simon Dikkenberg - Who and Why Media
 
 

 

This was an interesting part of the project which I really loved to bring to life. Deadline in production meant that there was no time for setting up a dolly for these specific shots. I not only added the footage into each screen and made sure that they look authentic. I also broke each scene into multiple layers to created a fake dolly and parallax effect to give the view a sensation of moving towards the artifact.

CSL - A BRIEF HISTORY

From the award winning filmmakers of the documentary 'COWSPIRACY' comes an even darker story of lies and deceit. Director Kip Anderson goes on a journey revealing the world's most destructive industry that threatens our health today. Contacting Kip and Keegan after finally getting a chance to watch CONSPIRACY, I got the opportunity to work on a few pieces for their new and very excited forth coming Documentary - WHAT THE HEALTH. Kip and Keegan are definitely on an important mission and I feel very privileged to work on one of their projects. Stay tuned for release dates. 

Project: What The Health 
<a href="http://www.whatthehealthfilm.com">Support them on Indiegogo</a>

Role: Animator
Client: First Spark Media
Director: Kip Anderen and Keegan Kuhn

WHAT THE HEALTH

Software company Quickbase were looking for a thoughtful and highly motivating intro video for their yearly conference. The software allows employees to personally problem solve their everyday tasks by effortlessly developing apps to do multiple tasks quickly and efficiently. The idea was to band the developers together, ignite, unite and inspire them as 'citizen developers. This was done though a highly conceptual idea using simple shapes and specific colour placement to tell the story. 


Quickbase Conference Opener

I was asked to come up with an elegant intro video for the Fiduciary Investors Symposium. The main messaging that I need to illustrate was reformed thinking and transformational change. This was one of those projects where everything just worked. 

Project: Fiduciary Investors Symposium
<a href="http://www.fiduciaryinvestors.com">Website</a>
Client: Conexus Financial
Creative Director: Simon Dikkenberg
Art Direction and Design: David Ochudzawa
Audio Effects: David Ochudzawa

FIS INTRO VIDEO

Fish Eye Project is a new and exciting company that specialises in interactive underwater dives with live broadcasts that are enjoyed in Cinema spaces. The team has invited me to head the design department and I'm proud to reveal the first cinematic intro - Participants will see before each live dive commences on the big screen.

Project- Cinematic Intro for Fish Eye Project Broadcasts
<a href="http://www.fisheyeproject.org/#home">Fish Eye Project</a>
Client- Mike Irvine, Co Founder and Executive Director
Art Direction- David Ochudzawa
Music- David Ochudzawa

FISHEYE PROJECT CINEMATIC

I had to opportunity to work with TEDx Victoria BC to create an intro animation for the event. Setting myself some new technical challenges, I chose to create a real 3D map of Victoria into the scene. The creative direction was to include an iceberg and a light build to signify climate change and impactful ideas.

Project: TEDx Victoria 2015
<a href="http://tedxvictoria.com">Website</a>
Client: TEDx
Creative Director: Dylan Wilks
Art Direction and Design: David Ochudzawa
3D Modleling: Studio Robazzo
Music: standingwave - kyle vande slunt

TEDx Victoria

It was an honour to work with Chad Gracia on this hard edged documentary film. What seemed risky and questionable at first became the best decision and working experience I had in a long time. The Ukraine, Chernobyl, Russia, and Putin, all surrounded by an eccentric, determined artist searching for the truth. Available worldwide now!

Project: The Russian Woodpecker 
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-russian-woodpecker/id1047565290?ls=1">See the entire film at iTunes</a>

Role: Design Lead
Client: Gracia Films
Director: Chad Gracia
3D Modeler: Jaroslav Cherednichenko

The Russian Woodpecker

Respected academic Prof Malcolm Maclure approached me to help explain and demystify the elaborate system of Macro Economics. How do you explain Macro Economics quickly whilst keeping students captivated, entertained and hungry for more? You create a video that encaptulates the fundamentals and inner workings of the man made machine. 

This complex and exciting system was originally drawn by Malcolm and then was passed over to me to design and bring to life. The class room is changing, and so must the delivery of its classrooms. 

The main video of the system will soon be feature on another site. TBA.

Client: Malcolm Maclure
3D Modeler: Jaroslav Cherednichenko

WASHINOMICS

This animation was the main graphical piece to help frame the story of this documentary about the future generation in war torn Afghanistan. 

Project- generationafilm.com
<a href="http://generationafilm.com">Generation A</a>
Client- Love Thy Films
Director- Jasmin Kozowy

Generation A

During the release of The Great Gatsby, I was asked to create a video to promote vintage video using the elegance, style and grace of the roaring 20s. 

Client: Pomegranate Films



Gatsby vs Pomegranate

Working with Ad Agency BLOW has always been a treat. In launch of their side project and clothing brand, I was asked to create a video to promote their eclectic designs. 

CLIENT - Blow
Illustration- Lionel Alphonse