wizards of the coast
production design / photo editing / layout / animation / video editing
Wizards Of The Coast produces phenomenal fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. In my role as Production Designer, I used their fantastic original assets to create digital ads, website assets, and - most enjoyably - motion graphics. Using After Effects and Photoshop, I brought fantasy paintings to life in seamlessly looping banners and headers. This was a highly collaborative role in a busy, ambitious team.
OUR DEMOGRAPHIC
Wizards fans were primarily younger men and teens. It was an intense international audience impatient for any new product. As such, extra precautions were taken to prevent any leaks of artwork or assets.
Artwork re-worked
Many of my designs began by taking beautiful, original artwork and recropping, cloning, and repurposing it into new deliverables. For example, this rectangular image was chopped and remixed into a much longer stripe asset.
VIDEO EDITING
At Wizards I got the opportunity to edit videos in Premiere then compress and upload them for the website. These videos were either shot in-house or created from existing animated assets.
LIFE AT WIZARDS VIDEO PROMO
BRANDS VIDEO HEADER PROMO
ANIMATION
Beneath is a sampling of the animation work I did at Wizards. I would take the original flat artwork, break it into dozens of movable layers in Photoshop, then bring it to life in After Effects using keyframes, overlays, warping tools, and particle effects. These were all designed to forever loop seamlessly in the background, which meant the beginning and ending keyframes needed to be exactly the same. Press play on any to watch them loop!
