Sequence Illustration
I’ve always been drawn to what goes on in the background in media, stories of heroes and villains can be exciting, but it’s the random unnamed extras that populate the world that interest me. Marvel, James Bond, Godzilla, and so on all take place in our world, and thus we all exist in them to some capacity. I’ve been a background extra in countless movies and TV shows, and so have you, when Earth is shown from space in The Avengers, you and I are down there somewhere, now “canonically” part of that world, and odds are we aren’t the ones observing their heroic antics directly. Instead, our “normal” lives go on, only punctuated by the occasional news headline. This is the throughline of much of my work, to show the “mundane” world that exists in the background of the fantastical and to remind us that if we pull back, maybe our world is no less interesting than those filled with superheroes and monsters.
Building Design
Vis Dev Projects
Juxtaposition is maybe the most useful tool for any storyteller, and one of the oldest tricks is to contrast the mundane and the fantastical. With that in mind, I take one of my favorite movies Monsters and create imagery that might exist in a world where giant octopus creatures roam northern Mexico but are never shown in the movie. However, in this case, it isn't the mundane contrasting the fantastical, but rather the mundane contrasting the mundane, and finding the weirdness that exists in between.
One of the most common trends in disaster movies is to make use of news footage, as it makes the stories feel more real. However, I always wonder, what would it be like inside the offices of CNN as they scramble to cover stories that to us, seem flat-out impossible? How would producers, editors, and graphic artists, respond to a giant radioactive lizard rising out of the ocean thousands of miles away? 
Cinematography Studies
Spiritied Away
Spiritied Away
Fire Walk With Me
Fire Walk With Me
Taipei Story
Taipei Story
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense
White Noise
White Noise
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Six Feet Under: Everyone's Waiting
Six Feet Under: Everyone's Waiting
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