Seasons greetings from The Gummy Bear, and me!

Happy Holidays viewers!
The Gummy Bear videos are usually CG, and I was very pleased to be a part of the first stop motion video to feature the squishy green guy! I was involved in the compositing on the video. Enjoy!

Black Stormtrooper 3 has been released!

The third installment of the ongoing Black Stormtrooper series is finally here! I worked closely with the series creator Donald Faison, to create sets and special effects that would bring as much of a classic Star Wars feel to the show as we could, while still keeping it very "Lego". Enjoy!

The Story Of Pines - Watch the full film online now!

Here it is ladies and gents, The Story Of Pines, featuring the music of Alison Sudol. Thanks to Musa Brooker for giving me the chance to be a part of such a magical little film! Please comment, like etc, anything you can to help spread the word about this film!

Preview of upcoming film I worked on, The Story Of Pines

Check out the first preview of the upcoming short film The Story Of Pines for which I was responsible for visual effects and compositing.

The film is a collaboration with Alison Sudol, lead singer of the band A Fine Frenzy, and the film helps to tell the story of her new album "The Story Of Pines".



The film debuts online on October 2nd on Take Part TV, and will be posted here as well.

Wake The F**k Up - Staring Samuel L Jackson

This is a short election piece that I worked on, which stars none other than Samuel L Jackson. I was responsible for the visual effects/compositing in this ad using animation created by Musa Brooker. I really love the piece, as it is a funny, some might say controversial (if you are offended by bad language) way of delivering a message I am passionate about. I feel very privileged to have been a part of it, and hope that it serves as a reminder of all the president has achieved in his 4 short years in office. *update Link has been taken down, here is a mirror. and here is a segment with my favorite news group The Young Turks, talking about the video.

Clank Puppet First Animation Test (stop motion)

So despite being super busy for the last few months, I have been trying to do some stop motion animation in my spare time using the Clank puppet I whipped up. This is my first little test, its nothing special really, just the character doing a confidant, robotic looking walk cycle. I will be trying to do more with the puppet soon, testing out it's limitations etc. Will post more when I have a chance!


Animation Test - Clank puppet walk from richard van as on Vimeo.

Clank Stop Motion Puppet

He may be Ratchet's adorable robot sidekick to some, to others he is Secret Agent Clank, master spy, but to me he is a brilliantly designed character which I have been wanting to animate for some time, though I thought I would be doing it in CGI. However I recently installed Dragon Stop Motion on my computer and have been dying to really test it out, so I created this puppet in order to do some broad gesture animations to add to my show reel! I will update with the animation clips once I am finished with them!