EXPERIENCE
Senior Video Graphics Animator | THE WASHINGTON POST
NOV 2018 - PRESENT
Creating animation and illustrations for the Post; pitching original explainers and supporting their video department with all graphics needs. Animation production covered a range of subjects, including politics, national, health, science, tech, video games, and food/travel. Responsibilities include developing thumbnails and motion graphic templates for breaking news stories, segment animation for mid-length explainers, and comprehensive graphics packages for mini-docs and features. Producer on several projects handling interviewing, scripts, and research. Finally, providing technical support for editors and creative direction on a number of enterprise stories.
Freelance Motion Graphics Artist & Animator
APR 2016 - PRESENT
Clients: Quanta Magazine, Smithsonian Channel, Bears Ears Partnership, National Park Service, Rawsienna, Metanoia Concepts,
As a freelancer animator and vfx artist, I’ve produced show title opens for broadcast, map graphics, segment animation, science explainers and 3D reconstruction for educational use. Work has been included on a number of shows on Smithsonian Channel, published in articles for Quanta Magazine, and seen at several premieres at the National Museum of American History and other venues.
Multimedia Specialist II, Science Animation Fellow | Conceptual Image Lab
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
APR 2014 - OCT 2018
Creating animations and supporting the visual development of work for the Conceptual Image Lab on missions for NASA Goddard. Animations created are for all science departments, including planetary, heliophysics, Earth science, and astrophysics. Graphics work has provided the public with important science updates, lead scientists with renderings in order to pitch their mission, lawmakers and business partners a comprehensive visual look of where NASA is heading.
Lead Artist | PIXELDUST STUDIOS
AUG 2010 - APR 2014
3D Generalist and Compositor/Animator for Broadcast Television, Film, and the Web. Clients include National Geographic, Discovery, NOVA, Animal Planet, Smithsonian Channel, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Smithsonian Museum, Military Channel, and History Channel. Character animator, motion designer, storyboard artist, and art director on a couple of projects, including the independent film “Project: Ice”.
3D Animator | GRASSHORSE
NOV 2018 - PRESENT
Animated, developed storyboards & layout, and compositor on a number of projects, including independent films. Work included character animation on several pitches for a children’s shows and commercials, as well as a number of in-house projects. Post-production work included matte painting, rotoscoping, compositing and color correction for film.
AWARDS
White House News Photographers Association | The Eyes of History Contest in Digital Storytelling
First, Documentary or Series (2023), “Inside the investigation of an officer who killed a teen threatening suicide” / The Washington Post
First, Explainer (2022), “17 requests for backup in 78 minutes” / The Washington Post
Third, Multimedia package (2021), “America’s pandemic: After decades of warning, a failed response” / The Washington Post
Online Journalism Awards
Winner, The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award (Large Newsroom, 2022), “The Pegasus Project: A global investigation” / The Washington Post
Winner, Explanatory Reporting (Large Newsroom, 2020), “COVID-19” / The Washington Post
Society for News Design
Bronze, Line of Coverage: Public Service (2020), “Visual Forensics” / The Washington Post
TIVA-DC Peer Awards
Gold, Skills Category for Motion Graphics - 2D/3D Animation (under 10K) (2018), Wapama Movement I / Metanoia Concepts
Bronze, Government (under 25K) (2017), Electric Wind of Venus / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
FEATURES
Is artificial intelligence intelligent? How Machine Learning has developed. | THE WASHINGTON POST, Aptril 2019
Brian Monroe, NASA Animator | AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE, October 2018
EDUCATION
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation, 2008