I recently had the pleasure sound designing this sketch by Paulilu (the very funny Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs.) Have you seen a better Robin than Paul plays here?? I haven’t. Bane (Luke Sholl) and Batman kill it as well. I watched a lot of Dark Knight scenes to get a flavor of their bass-heavy [...]
I recently had the pleasure of scoring & sound designing this video, directed by the wonderful Celia Rowlson-Hall. She describes it thusly: watch me demolish a city, perform in a broadway show, stroll through the jungle and turn into a ghost… all over a pair of shoes. I’ve been following Celia’s work for a few [...]
This haunting animation about the origins of Cuzco, Peru is by one of my favorite Chicago filmmakers, Gus Gavino. Check out more of his work at middle mind project (I especially love his music videos.) My main focus with this score was tone. It features a lot of accordion.. but more for mood than melody [...]
Starting the year off with a bang! I scored & sound-designed this spastic promo for frequent/fantastic collaborators Rebecca Rerdel (motion gfx) and Angeline Gragasin (director). This was my first time working on a project with DP Jeff Katz (his work is awesome, check it out!) Thank you, moment’s-notice live musicians for breathing so much energy [...]
A glimpse of a quick foley session featuring talented collaborator/intern/professional scribbler Richard Howarth. While sound-designing a bumper at the end of my pal Angeline Gragasin‘s video we began searching for the perfect scribble sound. We tried highlighters, sharpies, but finally settled on a plain old ballpoint pen. Angeline’s vid is below, which documents (and nicely [...]
I recently had the pleasure of scoring and sound designing an animation for Microsoft by director Ahmad Al-Awadi of Moving Blue. It was screened last month at Microsoft’s annual MGX event- a huge production with over 15,000 people in attendance! Above is a still (and yes, it did involve scuba diving) Ahmad was quite fun [...]
Ethan Nicolle (co-creator of Axe Cop) writes: Topless Robot named Axe Cop the #1 motion comic in existence! That is pretty high praise and I hope all the guys who worked so hard on those things get a big warm fuzzy from that article. I sure did! The article described the soundtrack as “the greatest [...]
I had the pleasure of sound designing, mixing, and creating a shifting robotic voice from director Angeline Gragasin‘s dialogue for the above piece. I’ve never worked on anything like this before. It’s futuristic, theatrical, visually stunning, sonically dense, and the most challenging sound design project I’ve EVER taken on. I will do a detailed “making [...]
Above is a project I scored & sound-designed for CollegeHumor last year. Since I’m about to go into a lot of geeky detail I’ve mixed the music a bit higher in the above than CH’s officially released version so you can easily follow along This was a nice challenge, as my goal was to create [...]
It’s time once again to unveil a brand new episode of the Axe Cop motion comic! Per usual, my role was (very dense) music and sound design. For those of you new to Axe Cop – it’s a popular webcomic written by a 5 year-old and illustrated by his 29 year-old brother (they’re now ~1.5 [...]