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AWARD-WINNING DESIGN & ANIMATION STUDIO

We are artists who create a visual structure for each documentary project, from beginning to end:
opening titles, design, illustration & artwork, animation direction, typography, seamless compositing, layered collage animation,
stop-motion, archival animation, particle & procedural effects, info-gfx, maps, photos, documents & ephemera.

PROJECT LIST

2023
Deadlocked
Lady Bird Diaries
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Power of the Dream
The American Buffalo
Eyes on the Prize
Empowered

2022
Cirque du Soleil: Without A Net
37 Words
Storming Caesar’s Palace
Art & Krimes by Krimes
Girl Talk
Maya & The Wave
U.S. & The Holocaust
Riveted: The History of Jeans
Making The Wish

2021
My Name is Pauli Murray
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Laura Ingalls Wilder Prairie to Page
Hemingway
$AVVY
Bob Ballard: An Explorer’s Life
Yannick: An Artist’s Journey

2020
The Big Scary “S” Word
East Lake Meadows:  a Public Housing Story
A Reckoning in Boston
The Vote
Expedition Everest
The Gene: An Intimate History
WWII Voices From the Front
Mae West Dirty Blonde
The Leadership

2019
Words From A Bear: N. Scott Momaday
Expedition Amelia
Anas v The Giant
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Bedlam
College Behind Bars
Made in Boise
Medicating Normal
Who Killed Garrett Phillips?
Minuman
Torn Apart: Separated at the Border

2018
Above & Beyond:  NASA's Journey to Tomorrow
Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin
Out of Many, One
Facing the Dragon
A Dangerous Son
Bias
The Eugenics Crusade
American Museum of Natural History (installation)

2017
Rancher Farmer Fisherman  
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
I Am Evidence
Take My Nose Please  
Tell Them We Are Rising: HBCU
The Art Assignment
Home Truth
Circus
The Goddess Project
One October
Banking on Bitcoin
A Dog’s Purpose
Daughters of Destiny

2016
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Real Boy
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper
Beyond Borders
Trapped
American Creed
Bonnie & Clyde

2015
Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
The Art Assignment
The Pen Awards: Khadija
Saving Eden

2014
Watchers of The Sky
Back on Board: Greg Louganis
FDNY: A Good Job
Stephanie in the Water

2013 and earlier
The Abominable Crime
Before the Spring: After the Fall
Death Metal Angola
Icebound
Robot
The Fence
For the Love of Dolly

AWARDS
Philadelphia Film Festival Jury's Honorable Mention for Best Animation - 2022
Telly 2D Animation - 2021
Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Animation - 2014

WORK/ARTWORK
Animation and creative direction, physical installation and site-specific projection mapping. 
Drawings, paintings, animated video and interactive installations, using projection, physical computing and code.