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MOTION WORK

.... Balloon Animals

:40 Title Sequence
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Direction/Design
Animation: Chris Gereg

Balloon Animals premiered at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival in Feb. 2006. The hand-made type falls somewhere between whimsical and demented, which seems to fit the film.

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.... American Cannibal

:55 Title Sequence
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Chris Gereg

"American Cannibal: The Road to Reality" debuted in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival; it documents the birth of a reality show from pitch to production.

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.... VH1 Soul

5 :15 Show Opens
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Naomi Nishimura

This series comprises the channel's new identity, which debuted in February 2006. Each spot revolves around the tree, VH1 Soul's logo/defining metaphor.

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.... Lifetime Identity

:15 Station ID
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Direction/Design
Animation: Chris Gereg

Rather than just looking at storyboards, Lifetime wanted to see animated examples of new channel id schemes. The blog idea arose as a way to attract younger audiences.

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.... MTV's Made

Show Packaging
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Direction/Design
Animation: Danny Kamahaji

The original show packaging for MTV's Made was done by Stiletto in 2002. After 6 seasons, the show needed a refresh - something similar but with new kids and a new twist.

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.... The Samsung Experience

3:20 Video Loop
House: Stiletto NYC &
Imagination
Aspect: Design
Animation: Fabian Tejada & Naomi Nishimuri

This piece, originally silent, was comissioned for the in-store video wall at the flagship Samsung Experience store in Columbus Circle, circa summer 2004. It plays across 9 flush, vertical LED panels.

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.... Viva Fernsehen

20 :05 Interactive IDs
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Naomi Nishimuri

Viva is an interactive German music tv network based in Cologne; these spots invite viewers to create graphics for the channel using their own photos & text.

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.... Beyond the Bleachers

3:00 Short Film
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Dennis Cheung

Nike invited Stiletto, along with other studios around the US to contribute to their Art of Speed Compilation DVD. We were given only the words "Speed & Adrenaline" for inspiration. So we made a mini-horror movie.

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.... USA Dog Show

Various Promos
House: Stiletto NYC
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Fabian Tejada & Dennis Cheung

The annual dog show at Madison Square Garden, attracts breeders from all over the country. So that's what we went with – dogs everywhere running to NYC to make the show.

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.... Bob Dylan

:45 experiment
Aspect: Concept/Design
Animation: Me!

This is a personal project that I made in Grad school as a response to the iconic Subterranean Homesick Blues film.

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Storyboards

.... Lifetime (Original)

Designed for Stiletto NYC in December 2005

Several ideas for new Lifetime channel ids; the concept was derived from the title of the design brief: "Find your own story..."

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.... TBS Pitch

Designed for Stiletto NYC in November 2005

TBS wanted some ideas for funny new channel ids that would fit within their existing graphic package. The second, which is less self-explanatory, has to do with defining certain types of laughter, as if "The Milk Snort" were a dictionary entry.

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.... VH1 Soul (Outtakes)

Designed for Stiletto NYC in August 2005

Originally there were going to be ten :15 second show opens instead of five; these were a few of the others that I worked on.

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.... Ford Power Up

Designed for Stiletto NYC in March 2004

Ford hosted their Power Up 2004 Conference in Las Vegas and needed a video installation featuring all of their available models in action. Stiletto worked with David Poremba of Sherpa Productions.

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.... MTV's Boiling Points

Designed for Stiletto NYC in September 2003

MTV had a new show that tested people's threshold for annoyance; if the oblivious contestants kept their didn't blow up after like 10 minutes they won money. In the first board, we wanted only type on the balloons, later MTV also asked for faces.

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