Category: Animation
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Cool King® “Tropic Thunder Super Swirl” Motion Graphic and Flavor Card
This promotion was composed to bring attention to one of the hybrid mixes that is available at Cool King. Each of their (8) machines have the capacity to distribute (2) flavors. The machines have a handle between the two flavor handles that will mix the two flavors in one pull. I named this mix of…
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Visions by Ehsan “Purchase with Purpose” Campaign
Once Ehsan’s storefront was up and running, I wanted to show how we could promote certain products using Instagram stories. With “Story” posts, a button can be added that can send the user to a specific URL when selected. I wanted to utilize this feature so when the viewer sees a specific product, they can…
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Cool King® Local Flavor / Clipper Magazine Covers
I was doing a little Spring cleaning and I came across these covers I created for Cool King a couple years back. I even found one from when the business was named Super Cool. With these, I either took photos of the products in the shop or built a composite image from other images acquired.…
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Cool KIng® “Vegan, Non-dairy Options” Advertisment
Cool King’s owner, Rob, asked me to put something together to announce that they offer at least (5) Vegan friendly, non-dairy options on a regular basis. These are the flavors I’m aware of that qualify for the “Ⓥ” stamp of approval. For the sound design I sampled “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell and added a…
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Cool King® Rain or Shine, We’ve Got You Covered
I got the idea for this post after taking the photograph seen in the advertisement. I was raining, and I thought it might be funny to play on the fact that the “To Go” lid is actually a built in umbrella on days like these. With the sound design, I went with the classic “Singing…
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Cool King® “Surf City’s Premier Dessert Destination” Advertisement & Post Dialogue
With this advertisement I wanted to show some home town pride. I figured I’d give a shout-out to Huntington Beach’s deep roots in surf culture — it is known as “Surf City”. I took the photo of the shop the day after there was a big rain. I thought the cloud formations added a nice…
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Cool King® “Pistachio” Almond Milk Yogurt
For this ad, I was searching on the web to get inspired by something that shocased the word “Pistachio” and I stumbled across this comedian/musician named Tom McGovern. For the sound design I did a remix using the song he did in his skit about “Pista-CHEE-o” being “da’ best nut”. Please support Tom in all…
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“Vegan of Course” T-shirt Design and Motion Graphic
I met Sky while working on the “Visions by Ehsan” project. To help support his podcast, I drew up a couple designs for T-shirts for him to sell on his Etsy store. I named this design “Effervescence” to call notice to the bubbles floating at the top if the word “vegan” as a shout out…
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Cool King® “Totally Awesome Chocolate Overload” Ice Cream
This is the rebrand I did for Cool King’s “Chocolate Overload” Ice Cream. I can remember how much fun it was to show up at the local arcade with a pocket full of quarters. Upon entering the darkened den, you’d be bum rushed by a tidal wave of spazamatic digital boinks and binks, eruptions of…
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Visions by Ehsan :: Website Design
This project was based on the client’s emphasis on creating a website design with “Wow!” factor.
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Visions by Ehsan :: Painting 1084 of 2000
Here’s another showcase of one of the 2000 paintings that is part of Ehsan’s “Vision of Unity & Peace” fine art installations.
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Cool King® “Your way, everyday!” Video Production
In my opinion, there’s nothing like fun times spent with friends and family to bring forth a brighter day. I was commissioned to created this video to virtually live the “Cool King Frozen Yogurt & Desserts” experience. Laughs and smiles seem to be a byproduct of visiting this shop. No script, no direction, just document…
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Cool King® “Cap’n Crunch Ice Cream” Motion Graphic
Yes. it may be strange, but I’ll own it. I really like classic breakfast cereal art and advertisements. With this project, I compiled audio samples from vintage Cap’n Crunch television ads into a golden goulash of gilded audible greatness guaranteed to grant a trip down memory lane for those who’s youth was spent being ritualistically…
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Visions by Ehsan :: Waymakers 50th Celebration Event
Ehsan provided me with some shots he took while attending an anniversary event for Waymakers. If your unaware of the good Waymakers provides for impoverished families and youth, please look into them. They are another example of how “paying forward” makes sense.
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Visions by Ehsan :: Painting 41 of 2000 Motion Graphic
Just a quick edit I made to help promote Ehsan’s “Vision of Unity & Peace” project.
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Cool King® “Snickerdoodle Ice Cream” Advertisement
By happenstance, I stumbled upon this song “Zou Bisou Bisou” by Gillian Hills. It inspired this advertisement for Cool King’s “Snickerdoodle” Ice Cream.
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Cool King® Official North Pole Vanilla Ice Cream
This is the 4th installment of the Cool King® holiday series advertisements I created. Their previous concept was “Polar Bear Ice Cream” with a realistic Polar Bear photo. I riffed off that to create something more with elements pulled from Sanrio characters (i.e. Hello Kitty) and Asian influenced animation. The song sampled is Polar Bear…
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Cool King® Thanksgiving Motion Graphic for Social Media
I made this motion graphic to show gratitude to those who have supported Cool King®. I was inspired by the design elements the art direction for greeting cards in the United States during the 1940s. I initially modified a scan of a card from the era in an iOS mobile app named “Retouch”. From there…
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Cool King® Zombie Sour Apple Frozen Yogurt Advertisement :: Version 2
I made a more cartoon tinged advertisement with the intent to call back my memories of the old Universal Studios monster movies from the 30’s and 40’s. I also wrote a little nursery rhyme styled text for the post.
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Cool King® Just A Little Hocus Pocus Advertisement
Heres a short little advertisement I composed to announce the services Cool King® provides. The song sampled is Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of ”20th Century Boy” originally performed by T. Rex in 1973.
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Visions By Ehsan “Red Fingerprint Series” NFT Collection
I was asked to create a promo video and post verbiage for Ehsan’s recent NFT drop. Here’s what was published.
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Cool King® “Count Chocula” Frozen Yogurt
In the fifth iteration of the Cool King® Halloween Series, I embellished classic movie monster horror imagery with the ultra popular cocoa infused confectionary flavor — chocolate. With the post text, I carried the spooky nature of previous posts and incorporated a chocolate infused theme.
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Cool King® “Zombie Sour Apple” Frozen Yogurt Advertisement
With the fourth release of the Cool King® Halloween Series advertisements I did the graphics in a less cartoon style. I used a combination of stock graphics (The apple photo and hand graphic) with custom illustrations to compose the elements I included in the video. I also added to the “Muerte Family” ghost stories with…
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Cool King® “Ghosted Marshmallow” Gelato Advertisement & Nursery Rhyme
With the third installment of the Halloween 2022 campaign for Cool King, I was inspired to create visuals and a story targeted at those who love vintage animation. I had fun with the post dialogue with the intent of writing a spooky bedtime story.
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Cool King® “Strawberry Brains” Advertisement & Story
Here’s the second installment in the Halloween campaign I created for Cool King® Frozen Yogurt & Desserts. In this iteration, I composed the graphics, edited the video, engineered the sound design, and wrote the story that accompanied the video in the post.
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Cool King® “Monster Pumpkin Pie Bar” Ice Cream
It’s almost Halloween again and it’s always fun around Cool King Frozen Yogurt & Desserts this time of year. This is the first in a series of flavor promotions I’m doing for their social platforms. More to come!
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Cool King® “Classic Tart” Frozen Yogurt
If I’m having fun making the advertisement, then it must increase the possibility of the viewer having fun too — right?
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Cool King® “Blu-Raz” Italian Ice Ad
I composed motion graphics and post text for this ad for Cool King’s social profiles. I was inspired by the business owner Rob’s love for 80’s rock bands and freestyle BMX.
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Cool King® “Get Your Swirl” Motion Graphic for Social Media
This is a motion graphic that I created for Cool King® Frozen Yogurt & Desserts to promote their “Get Your Swirl” campaign for Summer 2022. It’s short length (10 seconds) and 9:16 aspect ratio is intended for publishing on social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. I rendered it 4k using…
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Cool King® “Churro” Frozen Yogurt
This is the motion graphic and post dialog I came up with to promote Cool King’s “Churro” flavor.
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Cool King® “Vanilla Ice Cream” Motion Graphic
I declare, Vanilla is not mundane! A flavor this bold deserves all the love it can handle. Cool King’s soft serve ice cream personifies the flavor’s amazing flavor and this motion graphic celebrates that. #motiongraphics #graphicdesign #digitalpromotion #graphics #branding #design
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GET SAFE® Crosswalk Safety with Safety Stu
This is a fun project from when I helped Stuart out from GET SAFE®. With this project I took on the following rolls: director, cameraman, video editor, sound engineer, animator, photo editor, copy writer, and graphic designer. I created this short trailer as well for use on 9×16 view spaces. Hopefully it helps everyone learn…
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South Bay Abrams Art Direction, Catalog, and Website Design
I worked as Art Director for many years with South Bay Abrams (1999 – 2020). I took care of many projects in that time. Some highlights are: I updated the companies identity, directed and helped build (160) page print catalog, designed and maintained their websites, conceptualized grocery point of sale pricing systems, and designed their…
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