a vfx producer / animation director / vfx artist available for collaboration on high quality, creative digital visual content

full cgi - cgi direction, 3d animation, character/creature creation

vfx production - 3d effects/animation, compositing, vfx supervision

creative - story development, character/creature design

founder and supervisor of the caffeine collective

representation:

contact:

Global Mechanic

hq@jackrabbit-pictures.com

click here for artist reel 2012

click here for director reels

click here for animator reel 2013

1-10-13

Just putting the final touches the pilot for a new animated series developed by Michael Mann and I called "Trog: The Corporate Caveman". Should be hitting the web within the month. Beyond Stoked.

10-1-12

Back at Zoic on 666 Park Avenue, Once Upon a Time, Falling Skies, and Grown Ups Two.

5-1-12

Worked as an animator on Bruce Alcock's upcoming film "Impromptu". Its gonna be a stereoscopic experimental 3D rollercoaster ride. So rad.

2-1-12

Working with Zoic Studios as a senior animator on the emmy nominated television show "Falling Skies". Such great people.

01-30-2011

Jackrabbit just wrapped up producing / directing a pro bono PSA for Ovarian Cancer Canada. Look for it on CTV.

See it here.

Thanks to Dan Brittain for the score, Wayne Kozak Sound for the VO record and final mix, and to Shannon Gaye for the beautiful voice work.

6- 23 -2010

Jackrabbit just finished up animation directing and CGI producing two fully animated :60 second spots for Jawbone handsfree headsets.

The work brought together The Caffeine Collectives Jeremy Stewart, Mike Stewart, Brittain, Engar and Mann working with creative from Hub Strategy out of San Francisco.

Check out ICON here

Check out MYTALK here

4-1-10

Jackrabbit, Dan Brittain, Mike Stewart, and Jeremy Stewart have completed a :30 second fully animated intro / title sequence for the documentary No Fun City.

The award winning film, directed by Melissa James and Kate Kroll, follows the hardships faced by musicians in Vancouver, Canada trying to find and keep their venues open.

Check out the intro here.

Check out the doc site here.

06-01-09

Jackrabbit completed his short film, "Fish". The second in the Nort's Shorts series, this one included the work of Mike Stewart and Brittain once again.

Check out "FISH" here.

07-28-09

Jackrabbit has just finished up a buttload of 3D work for director Michael Mann on a music video for the band "From Delhi to Dublin".

See it and trip the hell out here

01-22-09

Jackrabbit and Stewart just wrapped up work with Oh Boy Productions and the BC Liquor Distribution Board on two 1.5 minute recruitment spots laden with bubbly visual stimuli. Lots of fun. Cheers!

07-20-08

Jackrabbit just finished work with Global Mechanic on an American Express / Costo spot Directed by Bruce Alcock.

See it here.

11-08-07

Jackrabbit just wrapped production on a :30 second PSA for the BC Cancer Foundation.

The spot utilized the talents of Mike Stewart and The Caffeine Collective's newest member, Dan Brittain. Dan worked some motion graphics on the spot, but it was his putting together of an INCREDIBLE score (on his ukulele and xylophone) which really blew us away. Welcome Dan. You rüle with an umlaut.

See the spot HERE.

9-15-07

Just wrapped work with Global Mechanic working on a couple of national :30 sec. spots for American Electric Power. The spots were directed by Ken Meyer (Jackrabbit Pictures) and used the talents of Allan Henderson and Jeremy Stewart.

See summer here

See winter here

6-10-07

Jackrabbit Pictures and The Caffeine Collective are proud to announce the completion of Troy Nixey’s "Latchkey's Lament", VFX Produced by Ken Meyer of Jackrabbit Pictures.

The short, which clocks in just over 17 minutes, had over 95 shots requiring VFX work. From matte paintings, to 2D compositing, to marrying 3D into shot plates, to full CGI sequences, the team busted their balls on a fragment of a budget all in the name of art and nerdery.

Troy was chosen by Executive Producer and writer Guillermo del Toro to direct Don't Be Afraid of the Dark for Miramax Films based largely on the vision of this film. Way to go, bud.

Check out the whole film on youtube