To be asked to create the titles for the live re-stagings of some of Norman Lear’s most enduring and beloved situation comedies was a career high.
My motion graphics sequences for ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials – three in total – used each series’ iconic sets as a jumping off point, with a graphically fresh take on the classic material.
With Producer Rhys Ernst, I designed the opening titles for Joey Soloway's landmark series, Transparent.
The project was not my first collaboration with Soloway, having designed the opening titles for their feature film, Afternoon Delight, and their short film, Una Hora Por Favora - both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
I designed the titles for Joey Soloway’s feature film debut, Afternoon Delight.
The sequence was intended to give the audience a glimpse of the ennui of its protagonist Rachel (Kathryn Hahn). It was framed as a pensive and yet restless moment in an LA car wash.
At its Park City debut, Soloway won the Sundance dramatic director award for the feature.
After years of working with New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson on the home entertainment releases of the epic J.R.R. Tolkien theatrical adaptations, I was hired to design the end title sequence for the third film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Working alongside Alan Lee - the Academy Award-winning concept designer of the films - I developed techniques for highlighting Lee's sublime cast portraits as well as providing a visual 'return journey' from Mordor.
The 11-minute sequence - set to an original Annie Lennox composition - spanned 37 individually credited names and 57 end crawl layouts.
The One Day at a Time reboot for Netflix was my first project with Norman Lear. The uptempo main title sequence - cut to the beat of Gloria Estefan's version of the original theme song - needed to cover a lot of ground in its fifty seconds.
Familial and political histories are depicted with historical photos of the Cuban exodus campaign, Operation Pedro Pan. The Echo Park neighborhood and Latinx experience were other key ingredients, as was a nod to Justina Machado's character Penelope being both a nurse and a veteran.
I wanted to bring immediacy and intimacy to the titles for Gloria Calderón Kellett’s series With Love.
With just a couple quick beats for the main title and day & date card, the audience knows where - or more specifically, when - they are in the romantic lives of the Diaz family as told over the course of a year.
Each background was selected, framed or shot based on the five holidays depicted in the Amazon series’ first season.