Jayhawkers
Jayhawkers, based on the true story of Wilt Chamberlain, the athlete who changed the world of sports and the KU Basketball team that modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
On this film I had the privilege of doing the title sequences, visual effects, and artwork for the film. I also mastered the DVD, Blu-ray and DCP for distribution. Here is my visual effects breakdown:
Goodland
When the body of a drifter is discovered the same day a photographer arrives in the small farming community of Goodland Kansas, the local sheriff is left to piece together a string of events that don’t quite add up.
I served as an associate producer for this film assisting with many tasks to get the film made. I also worked on many of the films visual effects most notable the firearms sequences.
Destination Planet Negro
In 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America revealing much about race today.
I worked on this film directly out of college. The film had an extremely low budget and was created by film professors Kevin Willmott and Matthew Jacobson with an army of film students. With Matthew’s rocket model and photography work I was able to create some neat visual effects with little time and no resources.
The Sublime and Beautiful
David Conrad is a college professor raising three children in a small Kansas suburb with his wife Kelly. When sudden tragedy strikes the family days before Christmas, David and Kelly’s marriage is brought to its breaking point as David’s desire for retribution leads him into uncharted moral territory with the question: how can we forgive?
For this film I created the title sequences as well as some minimal visual effects work.
What We’ve Become
After a building a life living in New York, Stephanie is called back home to small town Kansas where she rediscovers the past and people she left behind. Can she choose to look to the future, or help the people from her past who need her the most?
I was able to so some visual effects work for this film as well as build artwork for the film and it’s distribution.
If Night Comes
When the announcement comes that Earth’s final day is near, a filmmaker makes plans to document & share in the lives around him. But an unwelcome interruption threatens to derail the last day, & he finds deeper connections than he had ever anticipated…
This film was originally created as a short series and then was rebuilt as a feature film. They came to me with a fairly chaotic mess so I was tasked with building a story that worked as a feature film along with color grading and visual effects fixing.
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