Sphere - Las Vegas

Collection of projects from my time at Sphere. Various degrees of involvement. Art Direction, Design, Concept Art, Animation and Technical Direction. More details coming soon.

Art Direction/Design

C4D/Photoshop/After Effects

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Art Direction/Concept Art 

Kid Cudi - ComplexCon Tour Visuals

Designed and animated two songs for Kid Cudi’s ComplexCon show. REVO FEV and the show finale - The Pursuit of Happieness. C4D/Octane

Art Direction/Design

Notch/C4D/Octane/After Effects

Coheed and Cambria - Tour Visuals

Designed and animated tour visuals for the songs Gravity's Union and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth. AE/C4D/Octane/Notch

Designed and animated contented for massive LED stage floor and hanging 360° LED screen.

NFT Project

SAYMYNAME - Tour visuals

Designed and animated tour package loops. AE/C4D/Octane

Lil Pump - Tour Visuals

Tour visuals for Lil Pumps song Esskeetit. Used Notch to quickly version out loops.

A.S.A.P. Ferg - Tour Visuals

Set piece style loops for the Madman tour.

Design, Animation and FX for T2 Ferginator look

A$AP Ferg

"When It's Dark Out" Tour Visuals 

Designed, animated and edited multiple songs for A$AP Ferg's tour.

AE/C4D 

Tritonal - Tour Visuals 

Designed and animated loops for tour visuals package.

AE/C4D

Liquid Stranger - Tour Visuals

Loop pack for Liquid Stranger. AE/C4D/X-particles/Octane

Job: Flosstradamus Tour Visuals 

Contracted by: Immanent

Roll: Design and animate visuals for Flosstradamus tour. C4D Octane and After Effects.

Excision - Lost Lands Festival

Custom visuals that were projected onto fabricated volcanoes for the Lost Lands festival. AE/C4D/Octane

House video looks for Rolling Loud music festival

Run The Jewels - Coachella

Designed and animated show intro as well as visuals for other songs.

Designed and animated projection map show for Segerstrom Center for the Arts opening gala

Technical direction for Hulu's Upfronts production. Oversaw preproduction and Disguise programing for live event.

BET Awards - Performance Visuals

Designed and animated screen visuals for live stage show. AE/C4D

Itom Lab - Cover art

Digital cover art for Golden Triangle single.. C4D/Photoshop/Spraypaint

XS - Club visuals

Custom visuals for Las Vegas club XS.

AE/C4D/Octane

Post Malone - Tour Visuals

Road House themed set piece’s and VJ transitions for tour package.

Job: 90 second show moment in between headliners at Ultra Music Festival 2015

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Lead Designer / Animator for "Space Girl Party". Created boards, animatic, and comps. Led two other animators.

Job: Dillon Francis Tour Visuals

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Designed and animated multiple pixel mapped looks for Dillon Francis tour package

Job: Omnia Nightclub Visuals

Contracted by: V-squared Labs

Roll: Designed and animated over 30 loops for a 17k pixel mapped video wall

Job: Steve Aoki I Heart Radio Performance

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Edited and animated music video for I Heart Radio performance

Job:  Zhu Tour Visuals

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Lead Designer/Animator

Edited and animated footage to be projected on models for live video shoot. Oversaw shoot and edited footage.

Curated and edited found footage for all songs.

Helped with show programing.

Job: Steve Aoki's Neon Future Tour Visuals

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Designed and animated visuals for tour package

Job: Frozen Forever

Contracted by: Mousetrappe

Roll: Animation and compositing for Tokyo Disney’s live Frozen projection mapping show.

Job: Camero

Contracted by: Mousetrappe

Roll: Animation and compositing for Disney’s Star Wars live projection mapping show.

Festival visuals for Digital Dreams Canada.

Roll: Designed animated and comped shots for a 90 second edit that was played between acts during the festival.

Job: Paris Hilton Tour Visuals

Contracted by: V-Squared Labs

Roll: Designed and animated visuals for Paris Hilton tour package

Pre Viz Test using Cinema 4D, Octane and Photoshop.

Job:  Architectural previz.

Contracted by: Tandem Digital

Roll: Lighting, texturing, and animation. Created in Cinema 4D and rendered in Octane

Job: Dodge Hellcat auto show reveal

Contracted by: Mind Over Eye

Roll: Design and animate HUD graphics and composite intro for Hellcat reveal. Large format multi-screen LED stage show.

Job: Nissan Leaf Tokyo Launch

Contracted by: Spinifex

Roll: Technical direction on 4 screen 12k projection mapped show. Designed and animated two sections.

Job: Nissan Infiniti Auto Show Reveal

Contracted by: Mind Over Eye

Roll: Motion titles and VFX for large format LED auto show reveal presentation. Lightning and cloud animation and compositing.

Job: Chrystler Town & Country

Contracted by: Mind Over Eye

Roll: Motion graphics animation and compositing

Job: Camero

Contracted by: Mind Over Eye

Roll: HUD design and animation

Job: CineAsia 

Contracted by: Cimerron

Roll: Designed and animated 4k intro and transitions for Warner Brothers package all in stereoscopic 3D

Client: DASH/LADOT

TAP Card Design Contest

Brief: Create a  Downtown Los Angeles themed deign that conveys motion

One of five finalist out of over 200 submissions 

Job: Denver Broncos Stadium Graphics Package

Contracted by: Cake

Roll: HUD design and animation; additional help with comping, rendering, lighting  and modeling on a number of shots.

Job: Fox Soccer Daily 

Contracted by: Cake

Roll: Comped and rendered intros, bumpers, and wipes. 

Job: Wheel of Fortune Opening Title

Contracted by: Image Flux

Roll: Comped 3D scene After Effects

Job: Futurana Promo

Contracted by: United Front Design

Roll: Created, animated and comped environments  with  characters from the show

2012 Demo Reel

All Design and animation done by John Federico