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Storyboard Movies
Action / Comedy / Drama
Despicable Me 4 - Attic
Despicable Me 4
Gru & Lucy arrive too late to save Junior from the vile clutches of Maxime Le Mal.
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Comedy / Performance
Despicable Me 4 - Jail
Despicable Me 4
Gru visits Maxime in prison and comes clean about an old high school betrayal.
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Action / Comedy / Suspense
Despicable Me 4 - Breakin
Despicable Me 4
Gru escorts Poppy on a daring, high-altitude heist.
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Action / Comedy / Performance
Super Mario Bros. Movie - Unagi B
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Mario & Donkey Kong connect for the first time, but they are in great danger!
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Action / Comedy / Suspense
Spies in Disguise
Spies in Disguise
Legendary super-spy, Lance Sterling likes to fly solo.
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Action / Drama / Sci-Fi
Nimona
Nimona
Sir Ballister Braveheart, beaten and bruised, finds his way back to the fight.
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Comedy / Drama / Performance
Super-Fan
Super-Fan (unreleased)
Super-fan Jake travels to Queens, NY to confront the author of his favorite book series.
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Action / Drama / Suspense
Super Mario Bros. Movie - Bridge
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Giant Bowser flings Mario from the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Comedy / Drama / Performance
Super Mario Bros. Movie - Unagi A
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Mario & Donkey Kong hash out their feelings inside the belly of the giant Unagi.
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Hybrid Storyboards / Story Animatics

Hybrid storyboards combine 2D and 3D elements inside 3D sets. Using Blender and its Grease Pencil tool, the scenes are edited and timed out with fully-animated cameras, objects and drawings.

Hybrid / Story-Vis
Hybrid Story-Vis Sizzle Reel
Hybrid / Story-Vis Sizzle Reel
A selection of hybrid storyboard and story-vis work from 2010–2015.
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The reel to the left shows a selection of work that I did from 2010 to 2016, before becoming a Sr Story Artist at Blue Sky Studios. At that time, we called what we were doing 'story animatics'. I used several applications to create these short sequences, mostly After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

Today, this approach is called 'hybrid storyboarding' or 'story-vis' for its combination of storyboard and pre-vis. It's come a long way since 2016 as I got to experience in 2025 when I worked on the new Netflix animated series, Magic: The Gathering season 1. The show is boarded almost entirely in this hybrid workflow. It's based in just one incredible app now, Blender.

Exploring this new method of storytelling is my current passion. I can't show my work from Magic yet, so I'm busy creating new pieces to showcase this work. I will update this space soon!

Storyboard Images
Action / Comedy
DM4 — Deleted Polo Scene
Musical Performance / Comedy
Bowser's Song
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Summary

Story Artist specializing in feature animation and hybrid storyboards, with major studio credits at Illumination, Blue Sky Studios, Netflix, DNEG, and Annapurna Pictures. Expert visual storyteller with a proven ability to translate complex scripts into compelling sequences — balancing creative vision with production realities. Currently obsessed with using Blender to create dynamic hybrid storyboards with the aim of expanding into game cinematics and live action projects, in addition to animated movies.

Experience
Story Artist — Unannounced FeatureJan 2026 – Present
Annapurna Pictures
Story Artist / Hybrid — Magic: The Gathering, Season 1Feb 2025 – Dec 2025
Netflix Series Animation
  • Developed and boarded hybrid sequences for Netflix's tentpole animated series adaptation in Blender
Story Artist — Unannounced FeatureSept 2024 – Dec 2024
Netflix Feature Animation
Story Artist — Angry Birds IIIJan 2024 – Jun 2024
DNEG
  • Boarded action and character-driven sequences for major animated feature production.
Sr. Story Artist — The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Despicable Me 4 / Super Mario Galaxy MovieApr 2021 – Nov 2023
Illumination
  • Crafted dynamic storyboards across three high-profile theatrical releases.
  • Collaborated directly with directors to shape narrative pacing, staging, and character performance.
Sr. Story ArtistJun 2015 – Apr 2021
Blue Sky Studios
  • Led story development on multiple feature productions over nearly 6 years.
  • Defined camera language, shot composition, and visual storytelling across key sequences.
Hybrid Storyboard Artist / Story AnimaticsNov 2009 – Jun 2015
Blue Sky Studios
  • Worked in an array of 2D and 3D applications to build story-vis sequences and animatics — blocking scenes, setting cameras, and cutting sequences as story reels. This hands-on work with 3D space and camera tools is foundational to my current hybrid boarding practice.
Storyboard Artist / Motion Graphics / 2D AnimatorSep 1998 – Nov 2009
Flickerlab | Asterisk Animation | DMA Animation | DCODE NYC | Edgeworx
  • Directed, designed, and animated content for TV, film, streaming, and games across multiple studios.
  • Created character designs, backgrounds, storyboards, and title sequences.
Skills

Visual Storytelling — pacing/timing, cinematography, staging, character performance, blocking/layout, camera work, continuity, versatility — action, comedy, suspense, drama, features, streaming series

Software — Storyboard Pro | Photoshop | After Effects | TVPaint | Clip Studio Paint | Flix | Blender | Cinema 4D

Animation — Character animation (2D/Traditional), compositing, motion graphics (MoGraph)

Education
School of Visual Arts1993 – 1997
Illustration / Fine Art
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)1990 – 1991
Fine Arts
The Evergreen State College1989 – 1990
Core Arts and Media

I'm a story artist/storyboard artist with 20+ years in the animation industry. With every new project I keep finding new directions, making new discoveries, and pushing into the latest technical processes, while bringing the artistic sensibility and craft that only experience can give.

My career has taken me from Blue Sky Studios to Illumination/Universal to Netflix Animation, where I helped bring Magic: The Gathering to life as a brand-new streaming series, premiering 2027. My credits include The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, currently the highest-grossing animated film in the world, with Angry Birds 3 still on the way. Most recently I've been working under contract on a new animated feature at Annapurna Pictures.

Based in the New York Metropolitan area, I specialize in cinematic staging, dynamic camera direction, and character performance. Before moving into story, I spent twelve years as a traditional character animator and 2D generalist, and that foundation still shapes everything I do.

What drives me is the relentless pursuit of the next idea, the next technique, the next way to tell a story that nobody's tried before. I'm a polymath by nature. Right now I'm deep into using Blender to create dynamic hybrid 2D/3D storyboards, and I've been expanding from animated family films into darker, older-skewing work in science fiction and fantasy. These are genres I've loved my whole life, and getting to work in them has genuinely lit a fire. Animation rewards people who never stop learning, and I never do.