Over the summer I bought a tranquil fountain for my porch. And then came up with this idea that at night. The spirits come to play in the fountain when the sun sets.
Music/Sound Design - Julie Craft
Design/Animation - Dave Holm
Short looping film created as an example brief for Gunner School final project.
Producer: Amy Unger
Animation/Character Design: David Holm, Julie Craft, Scott Hoch
Music/Sound Design: Julie Craft
A series of animations based on pure imagination using shapes and light.
Recess, a Boxfort short film. Featured on Good Moves & Wine After Coffee
Based on the childhood memory of recess and learning through play.
Dave Holm - Concept, Illustration, Primary 2D/3D animation.
Julie Craft - 3D Texturing, Lighting, Animation, Music Composition & Sound Design.
Scott Hoch - Cel Animated Textures
Very fortunate to work the Eames Institute illustrating The Eames Collection
Cultivate Curiosity
Short film about the plants that live on my front porch. And the idea that one of them was eating the bugs while I was away.
3D/2D Animation: David Holm
Sound Design and Music: Julie Craft
Working with Instacart and exploring new illustration and animation styles. These illustrations were part of spring to summer campaigns to run on social.
Worked with our pals Gunner to create some animated stickers for a unique mint company called Flintt Mints .
All the stickers were designed by the amazing Mr. Kiji
Interview with Noah the Hamster on his conversion to a plant-based diet for National Rural Letter Carriers of America and TrestleTree Health Coaching
Noah voiced by Noah Marger
Director/Producer: Cole Borgstadt & Jonathan Grace
Animation: David Holm
Sound Design: Katie Maynard
Writing: Cole Borgstadt
Music licensed through SoundStripe
Prod Co: Borg&Grace
Design and animation by Boxfort (instagram.com/boxfortdetroit/)
Sound design by Wesley Slover (sonosanctus.com)
Created in Detroit by: Billy Chitkin, Julie Craft, Nick Parente, Dave Holm, Scott Hoch, Justin Lemmon, Amy Sundin, Jake Williams, Anthony Maiuri, and Michael Condon.
My good friends at The Little Labs designed everything for an interactive map for the Elephant Sanctuary. This was a challenging project but very rewarding too. As I have never animated elephants before so this helped me grow as a character animator. You can see these animations in real life at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Check them out below!
Loop series for an art show.
Teamed up with Riot Films to create a promotional video for a new line of local organic foods. This job was super exciting because I had the packaging designs to start with as inspiration. The packaging was created by Skidmore Studio and they did an incredible job making them. See below early sketch concepts and design boards.
Design: Skidmore Studio
Animation: Dave Holm
Producer: Riot Films
Had the opportunity to collaborate on a music video. Inspired by old video games, so we went wild with it.
Ford asked us to create a short film on the cost of bribery and how it can impact people around the world.
Collab project with 3D mographer Billy Chitkin.
Michigan First asked me to create some fun animations for the Detroit Red Wings to be played at Little Caesars Arena. The challenge was designing for limited sized screens throughout the arena.