The Scorpion and the Frog tells the story of a scorpion who wants to cross a body of water. The scorpion cannot swim and approaches a frog to seek passage across the river. The frog is hesitant, well aware that the scorpion is a dangerous creature who is likely going to sting the him during the journey. The scorpion reassures the frog, explaining that if he stung the frog, they would both drown. The frog sees the logic in the scorpion's argument and agrees to carry the scorpion on his back across the water. However, half way across the river, the scorpion stings the frog. When the frog asks, "Why did you sting me?", the scorpion replies "Because it is my nature", after which both creatures drown.

The story of the scorpion and the frog is one about understanding the inherent nature of some people. A scorpion is and always will be a killer. A criminal is and always will be a criminal.

The thematic device of the scorpion boards for the movie Drive is intended to illustrate the concept of the frog and the scorpion fable while indicating that the nature of the Driver character played by Ryan Gosling is one of a killer who cannot help himself. By placing the scene under water, the narrative depicts the way in which, due to his nature, Gosling's character cannot help but drag his counterparts down with him on his spree of self-destruction and murder.

Winner of 1st Place: Best boards for an animated sequence at SCAD COMOTION2012!

Knolling is the habit of constantly arranging a workspace or area in a grid like pattern with all objects being parallel or perpendicular to one another.

This was the topic we were given for a project in which we were to create a self portrait of ourselves in the form of boards for animation.

I wanted to use knolling as a jumping off point, rather than a literal narrative element. I began to think of how human nature tends to knoll things naturally. Cities, floorplans, type and many other human creations are all very knolled. I wanted to contrast this with the more random, chaotic and beautiful way that nature arranges itself. I also wanted to use this contrast to express some elements of myself.

For this project, we were told to select a festival of our choosing and create a main title sequence for it. I chose the Tokyo Game show.

TGS is more or less the Asian version of E3 and focuses on Asian-market distribution and promotion of electronic entertainment content.

For this project, I wanted to combine retro gaming motifs and an overall feeling of Japanese culture and art style.

For this project we were told to create one object (in my case, a staircase) and model it 3 different ways: industrially, futuristically and organically.

For this project we were given the task of creating boards for the History Channel under 2 styles that both illustrate the same concept. My concept was the fact that history is a web.

Nick Jr Ident Boards

For this project we were asked to create a series of boards to promote the London Olympic games in 2012. My concept was to really link the city and the games into one entity. I wanted to showcase London but also the magnificence and history of the games themselves. I came to this visual solution.

Almost all of the background images are taken from Google Maps and composited onto.