Sara Olsher, an author and illustrator of children’s books, is proprietor of Mighty and Bright, an online business that offers her books and ancillary materials to families who are going through difficult experiences. I took a series of drawings she’d made for the books, animated them, added music and sound effects, and assembled the footage into this (approximately) one-minute promotional trailer.

September 15, 2020

Writer and performer Lisa Rothman responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by creating an online experience called Virtual Happy Hour, in which she engages in comic storytelling and interacts with the audience via Zoom. This one-minute Facebook ad is designed to entice business owners to book Virtual Happy Hour as a morale booster for their working-at-home employees. Lisa supplied the logo, video clips, and corporate testimonials. From those source materials, I developed the design and storyboard and created the video.

March 27, 2021

I created these virtual sets and animated projections for Lisa Rothman’s one-woman show “Dragon in the Drop-Off Lane,” which had an extended run at Berkeley’s Marsh theater in 2018–19. The show explores the difficult choices that parents must make about their children’s upbringing, through the metaphor of a dragon that makes an unwelcome appearance at an upscale school’s winter carnival. (Sound design by by Drew Webster and Audrey Howard)

November 18, 2021

This is a small sampling of the many projections I created for Chabot College’s production of “Water by the Spoonful” in the fall of 2019. Although the images look natural, nearly all were heavily manipulated in Photoshop. They were created in groups of three, designed to be projected simultaneously on three separate screens. I’ve accompanied each set of images with a clip showing how they appeared onstage.

October 31, 2019

Cat Town, a cat café that specializes in finding adoptive homes for elderly, stressed, sick, and injured shelter cats, asked me to prepare a brief, upbeat video that could be used to lead off an info session for prospective volunteers. Because the photos they gave me were not all of high quality, many had to be enhanced or augmented in Photoshop.

March 31, 2022

The producers of the podcast “The Slave is Gone” (an unconventional analysis of the Apple TV+ show “Dickinson”) needed a video trailer to attract funding. They gave me a short, edited audio clip from the pilot episode and a bunch of historical photos, and asked me to create something fast-paced. This is it! (Warning: adult content)

September 10, 2021

Akira

Puck

Lily

Bowie

Jolene

Freya

 

Every year, Oakland’s city-run animal shelter holds a fundraiser called “Bad Art,” which allows donors of $25 or more to submit a photo of their pet and have it made into a drawing or painting by a randomly selected volunteer artist. Many of the participating volunteers have no artistic skill at all — hence the name “Bad Art” — but some are accomplished artists, and many lie somewhere in between. I’ll leave it to you to decide where on the scale these images fall.

August 4, 2022

Knee joint menisci ligaments

Hip joint section

Hip joint posterior

Sarcomere

 

I was one of several artists enlisted to create illustrations and diagrams for “Human Anatomy,” a free, online textbook for first-year anatomy students. These are a few samples.

September 15, 2023