Featured Projects
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Featured Projects
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Add my experience as an animator, director, and designer to your creative team. I work well with agency art directors and project managers from creative departments of large or small organizations. Add value to your client projects with design-driven storytelling.
Chinook Blast
Chinook Blast is Calgary's mid-winter festival where the city comes alive to celebrate the season with community and culture. We helped promote the festival with a video full of exciting moments and delightful motion design.Agency: Good Company
Production Company: NUR Films
Producer: Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Director: Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Designer: Good Company
Motion Designer: Kevin Dryden
Enbridge Diversity Targets
Enbridge was announcing its upcoming workforce diversity goals targeting 2025, and wanted to highlight their equitable workforce and the different perspectives, experiences, and cultures at Enbridge. To do this we used a clean design that matched their brand with high-energy motion graphics to highlight the data. In addition we animated engaging illustrated characters in various scenes to reinforce the ideas.Client: Enbridge
Agency: Shine Light Entertainment
Producer: Mike Little
Director: Mike Little
Design: Enbridge
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Alberta Teachers' Association - Sardines
The ATA wanted voters to consider schools when learning what political candidate to vote for. Class size was the focus of this video. We decided on a factory processing theme using a collage style to illustrate the point that children shouldn't be treated like sardines, processed and packed into small classrooms.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: TAG
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Athabasca University
To introduce Athabasca University's community-driven PowerEd Micro-courses we created a video to show the unique development process they used to decide which courses to offer. This involved using social media to reach out to the potential student first, rather than course developers, to drive the course ideas.
We chose a colourful Athabasca U friendly pallet with a soft textured style, combined with a dynamic design of overlaid horizontal and vertical shapes. Animated at a gentle but engaging pace this video carries the viewer through the exciting chapters of this story documenting a new era of community-driven learning at Athabasca University.Client: Athabasca University
Agency: Kellough Co.
Producer: Mike Kerr
Director: Mike Kerr
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Sound Designer: Mitch Lee
Getting To Work
Our multinational client with a sizable workforce was moving offices. It was a huge endeavor, and to help make the process easier for staff we created a lighthearted explainer video to help take the stress out of the transition.
Combining a charming illustration and animation style,
coupled with a delightful voiceover and music bed, the video made viewers smile and relax during the season of change.Client: Multinational Client
Agency: Lamplight Productions
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Designer: John Barros
Animator: John Barros
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Quantum Place
The ATA wanted voters to consider schools when learning what political candidate to vote for. Class size was the focus of this video. We decided on a factory processing theme using a collage style to illustrate the point that children shouldn't be treated like sardines, processed and packed into small classrooms.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: ++TAG**
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
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Savanna Energy
Savanna Energy Services developed a new prototype drilling rig and needed to promote it to prospective buyers. Not having a physical rig constructed yet they hired us to show off its capabilities using animation and motion graphics.
Savanna also had a solid history as a leader in the energy sector developing award-winning equipment. To make sure that wasn't missed we created a brief company bio video to set the stage for their newest creation—the Velox 360.
To ensure the rig remained the hero of the shot we employed a creative but minimalist design style for the environment. We then set up an orbiting camera to capture every detail as the rig components assembled so nothing was missed as Savanna showed off their greatest product to date.Client: Savanna Energy Services
Production: Uplift Media
Producer: Justin Machnik
Director: Kevin Dryden
Animation: Shane Holmes
Animation: Young Shin
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
SportAid
SportAid's mission is to lift people out of poverty around the world through the transformative power of sport. They partner with local governments, humanitarian organizations, and local leaders to assist in community transformation.
We employed a clean icon-driven design, animated with fun and engaging motion carried by a young inviting voice to raise awareness of their goal and generate support for their mission.Client: SportAid
Producer: Eric Reynolds
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Jon Allison
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Vertigo Theatre
Vertigo Theatre's upcoming season was sure to please audiences with it's diverse and exciting lineup. To draw the attention of theatre goes and bring them back for more, Vertigo has us create this video for their lobby display and online promotion.Client: Vertigo Theatre
Agency: NUR Films
Producer: Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Other agency
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Pason
To inspire drilling companies to use Pason's new alarm systems we developed this video to compare the problems with legacy warnings systems and Pason's new game-changing solution.Drillers faced many false alarms throughout their shifts using older alarm technology which resulted in dangerous complacency leading to mistakes, risk to personnel, damage to equipment, and loss of productivity.Pason's new dependable Smart Alarm technology significantly reduces false warnings earning a driller's trust which leads to faster reaction times. The result is increased safety, a reduction in costly incidents, and an increase in productivity.Client: Pason Systems Corp
Agency: Kicker
Producer: Erin Lucca
Director: Erin Lucca
Illustration: Michael Grills
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Care Credit
CareCredit offers a credit card designed specifically for medical expenses. They provide flexible plans to help their clients chart a course when presented with a need for some extra financial support.
CareCredit products are offered in veterinary practices also, and we created this video to display in waiting areas. The message is designed to inform pet owners of the option to apply for CareCredit when help is needed to manage the costs associated with caring for their beloved animal friends.Client: CareCredit
Agency: TBA Digital
Director: Angela Tam
Designer: Kevin Dryden
Motion Designer: Kevin Dryden
Alberta Teachers Association - 100 Years
For the 100th Anniversary of the Alberta Teacher's Association the ATA wanted to celebrate their legacy and look forward with inspiration to the future.
The concept was to have an attentive teacher walk the length of a classroom, while the environment and styles change, reflecting the passing of time through the century. The goal was to inspire the viewer with a sense of admiration and appreciation for Alberta teachers for their hard work in shaping each successive generation.
The production team designed and built four different sets, each representing four different eras between when the ATA started in 1917 to the present. They directed the student and teacher actors to film the four scenes in costume suited to each of the different eras.
Then, using motion graphics and visual effects, we combined the four scenes and animated transitions between the elements in each scene to guide the viewer in an interesting flow from one era to the next.
The result is a video museum presenting 100 years of hard-working Alberta teachers in 30 seconds.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: TAG
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Jason Stang
Motion Design & Visual Effects: Kevin Dryden
Chinook Blast
Chinook Blast is Calgary's mid-winter festival where the city comes alive to celebrate the season with community and culture. We helped promote the festival with a video full of exciting moments and delightful motion design.Agency: Good Company
Production Company: NUR Films
Producer: Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Director: Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Designer: Good Company
Motion Designer: Kevin Dryden
Enbridge Diversity Targets
Enbridge was announcing its upcoming workforce diversity goals targeting 2025, and wanted to highlight their equitable workforce and the different perspectives, experiences, and cultures at Enbridge. To do this we used a clean design that matched their brand with high-energy motion graphics to highlight the data. In addition we animated engaging illustrated characters in various scenes to reinforce the ideas.Client: Enbridge
Agency: ++Shine Light Entertainment**
Producer: Mike Little
Director: Mike Little
Design: Enbridge
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Alberta Teachers' Association - Sardines
The ATA wanted voters to consider schools when learning what political candidate to vote for. Class size was the focus of this video. We decided on a factory processing theme using a collage style to illustrate the point that children shouldn't be treated like sardines, processed and packed into small classrooms.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: ++TAG**
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Athabasca University
The ATA wanted voters to consider schools when learning what political candidate to vote for. Class size was the focus of this video. We decided on a factory processing theme using a collage style to illustrate the point that children shouldn't be treated like sardines, processed and packed into small classrooms.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: ++TAG**
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Getting To Work
The ATA wanted voters to consider schools when learning what political candidate to vote for. Class size was the focus of this video. We decided on a factory processing theme using a collage style to illustrate the point that children shouldn't be treated like sardines, processed and packed into small classrooms.Client: Alberta Teacher's Association
Agency: ++TAG**
Producer: Ken McWilliams
Director: Kevin Dryden
Design: Kevin Dryden
Motion Design: Kevin Dryden
Quantum Place