Just remembering back to when I was lucky to make this trailer for The Sojourn, a really pretty puzzle game. Got to direct, edit, capture, and work on the sound for this piece. Been a few years but still fun to look at every now and then.

It was pretty damn cool to end last year by doing a trailer for #ARK at The Game Awards, which was also voiced by @FredTatasciore! Who I am fortunate to call a friend. I was also lucky to get to write, direct, capture, edit, and do audio for this piece with my team at @Player1Trailers! A lot of this was pulled from my love of the series and how it made me feel at its best.

Another trailer we did for Pacific Drive over at @Player1Trailers. The story trailer was a blast to direct, capture, edit, and sound design for. Had an outlet call it their "favorite piece of art trailer" which is pretty crazy praise. I had a very particular mood/feel I wanted to evoke with it, so all the decisions from the capture, editing, the music, etc... all played into the feel.

Flashback to my team and I at @Player1Trailers creating this trailer for @UnknownWorlds and their game @Moonbreaker! Lots of custom animations, alongside capture, edit, sound and more. It was a challenging piece but we enjoyed the process!

Flashback to when we did this trailer for Stellaris Federations for @PdxInteractive four years ago. I started doing these news report things in the Synthetic Dawn trailer (like 7 years ago now damn), and Federations felt like a really great combination of trying to show people how it FELT to play a game of Stellaris (especially with a politics focused expansion). All the VO and lore is original, with a lot of the custom cinematics we did as well (the CGI galaxy at the beginning for example), and of course the capture. We spent a long time on the audio side too. I remember being surprised by fan reactions to this piece. I thought I did a decent job, but seeing how many people really loved breaking apart the lore we did for this was a very fun surprise.

The latest piece we did for @pathoftitans was for the Pounce Update. This trailer was a labor of love, and it was a real honor for me to get to write, direct, capture, and edit this! Fans loved the new lore storytelling style I had done with the Nightstalker piece, so I decided to continue it with this next trailer, this time contextualizing the tone and feel of it based on the Combat focus of the update. This meant writing an original story and lore that built on the legend of the characters I had created in the last trailer. However, this time? I wanted to go further. Fan reactions to the ending of the Nightstalker trailer (a moment that isn't even made for selling a feature but just delivering on a good story with emotion) were so big that I knew I wanted to see how far I could take it the Pounce trailer. All of it was captured in-game, with every dinosaur being a real player. The music is completely custom as well. Oh and when making the title sequence there in the middle "Introducing the Pounce Update" I was able to design the background to look like the outline of the Alberta, just a nice little nod to the legend we were building. The @pathoftitans team trusted me and my crew at @Player1Trailers to an insane extent, and that let me make something special with this trailer...

This is the second of the trilogy of trailers I did for @pathoftitans! After the enormous success of the Gondwa trailer (million plus hits across multiple uploads on Youtube and large player count increases), it was settled that this in-game approach really worked. So, what was next? Nightstalker. When I heard the update would contain buffs for raptors at night, I immediately saw how absolutely horrifying it would be for players when the sun sets, and they hear the faint sounds of a raptor pack slowly hunting them down. I envisioned this suspenseful sequence to draw the viewer in, using the context of Gondwa as a setup to the warm and open tone, only for it to slowly descend into an unnerving feeling piece as the sun sets. I wrote in this little family of Albertas (who would become recurring characters), and how while they slept the hunters in the night would lure the baby into the dark and kill it. Which I used to immediately push into the horror of the night sequence. This was also how I established the structure of the trailers, where we contextualize the player experience with the story using gameplay cinematics, and then use a high energy sequence in the middle to go over features, all while thematically tying it together to the overall theme. I wrote, directed, captured, and edited this piece and had an insane blast doing it. Some eagle eyed viewers may have caught the parents of the family coming after their child's killers in the rain during the montage, where we show them fighting them off, inadvertently saving another family from the same fate. I thought that added a nice connection to the tone of revenge. Now... the ending. This came in fairly late in the process, but I remember imagining this "after credits" idea where we saw the two Alberta parents after they win the battle, scarred and bleeding, leaving the other family and their child saved. We follow them for a decent amount of time, then we see the other baby dino still alive as the sun rises, living its day, getting a second chance. But... we come back to the Alberta parents returning to the body of their own child. I shot it in a way where we sit with them just enough to feel the mourning they are going through. The lesson being, death is permanent, and nothing is a perfect ending. I wanted this unfortunate reality to hit, where we pan up and see another day rises in the harsh world of Path of Titans. When the trailer came out, it was a bit insane how positive the reactions were. I received so many deeply emotional messages and emails from fans about how it made them feel, and seeing how effective the very ending of the trailer was for people. The analytics were also hard to believe. Something was clearly working! #PathofTitans

Throwback! This was the first of 3 trailers I did for @pathoftitans. When I was brought on, I pushed hard that we use entirely in-game capture vs scripted engine stuff (a departure from their previous trailers), and I wanted to do it entirely with players controlling the dinosaurs. I thought that would give a really great authenticity to everything, weird movements and all. I then pitched that we make it less about people playing T-rex and killing each other, and more about the dream, the vision, the beauty, of the game. See, when I first booted up Path of Titans, I wasn't spawn killed or immediately bullied. It was just me, and as I looked around I immediately felt like I was transported 100 million years ago to an old Earth. As I made my way through the deep forest, I came across another baby dino, and (without any text chat) we teamed up and explored together. I saw these massive creatures with giant scars across their backs walk past us like massive titans of old. When I made my way over to a cliff edge and looked out, I saw it... The beauty of what the devs were trying to do with the game. So I wrote, directed, edited, and captured this first trailer to hit that same feeling I had when first playing. I convinced @RobertIrwin to voice it, and I coached him a tiny bit as this was his first VO only role (obviously he didn't need it). We shot a live-action opening of the eye ourselves, and then carried through with an unbelievable custom music score by Markus Zierhofer, who got exactly what I was trying to do with the tone/music. This was the start of a great journey as I brought what I felt was the right vision to the feel of the trailers for the game.

Took some members of our team out to see Dune Part Two. It was a fun outing.

This shot was so fun to do. Believe it or not, that slide was NOT planned. Our Producer at the time was driving the car and I was on camera and directing (All the shots are controlled in real time btw, no splines or scripted bullshit) And they hit the acid and lost traction, I started SCREAMING "TURN LEFT! TURN LEFT! OWN IT!" as I moved the camera around (completely independently of the car btw) cause I knew if they turned hard enough I could wrap the camera around the front end of the car and get a cool transition cut out of it. Turned out sick as fuck. A lot of capture is equal parts improv and brutally fast thinking with fine motor skills to get the camera in position.

The final piece. 2 years of making the trailers for Pacific Drive, from the Announcement, Gameplay Trailer, Story Trailer, Release Date Trailer, and now finishing it off with this lovely little launch trailer my team and I did at @Player1Trailers Thanks for having us on!

Last year we released the gameplay trailer for #PacificDrive. It wasn't easy to make, and went through tons of iterations, but we worked really hard on it from concept to completion. It was my pleasure to direct, edit, and capture the piece, and my team @Player1Trailers worked super hard on it, where we created the TV animations, the VO, capture, editing, sound, VFX, and tons more. It was so great to see it explode with multiple million+ view pieces on youtube and catapult the game into more popularity. Crazy to think not long now until Pacific Drive is released!

I was asked to judge the Global Entertainment Awards this year. Excited to see the work you’ve all done lately in trailers!

Trip booked. Going to be at #GDC2024. Excited to catch up with everyone!

If you were watching #TheGameAwards last night you may have caught a peak at our trailer for #ArkSurvivalAscended! If you want to watch the full thing, you can see it here. I poured a lot of heart and soul into this alongside my team @Player1Trailers. It was an honor to write, direct, capture, and edit this.

I had this trailer in my head for a year. It's a pleasure to direct, capture, edit, etc. with my team @Player1Trailers Special thanks to @JaduHeart for trusting me with their wonderful music, and to @ironwoodtweets @Kepler_Interact for having us on to make this. #PacificDrive

I had the pleasure to direct, edit, and capture this trailer with my team @Player1Trailers. We also had a blast doing the opening cinematic animations and showcasing the unique facets of Moonbreaker for the wonderful folks over at @UnknownWorlds