ANIMATION

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Grammy Award-winning artist, St. Vincent (Annie Clark) and co-writer Bill Benz needed a classic TV cartoon style music video animated for "The Melting of the Sun," the second single off of the record, Daddy’s Home.

Chris McD designed, animated, and composited this video based off an outline written by Annie and Bill. Green screen live action was shot by Kylie Hazzard and the video was produced by Loma Vista.

All Ages Productions needed a "Sendakian" illustrative animated style for this dreamlike music video scripted by Aldous Harding (Hannah Sian Topp).

Chris McD worked directly with Hannah to take her storybook visions and translate them into this loose narrative animated piece. Final compositing by Harvey Benschoter. Assistance by Angela Visconti and Austin Pettit.

Doubleday & Cartwright needed a Schoolhouse Rock-esque retro cartoon style for their client WeTransfer's music video commercial.

Chris McD took the provided soundtrack and storyboarded, designed,  and animated this video in a 2D cartoon style reminiscent of children's educational television. Assistance by Colton Barto, Angel Kawash, and Gia Pedicone.

The director needed an animated parody educational film for the HBO feature film Tour de Pharmacy (2017). The soundtrack was supplied and Brian Wilcox provided storyboards and designs.

Chris McD produced the piece to completion, and handled lead animation and backgrounds. Assistance by Colton Barto.

Jonas & Co. needed a cheerful cartoon music video to accompany the provided recording of "You Are My Sunshine" with the sun as the conceptual throughline for their Nick Jr. series, Face's Music Party.

Chris McD wrote, storyboarded, designed, and animated this music sequence. Assistance by Hayden Caico. 

The producers needed multiple animated characters, segments and techniques of animation for the two seasons of this Netflix comedy starring Maria Bamford.

Chris McD designed and animated the Trabajito, Loaf Coach, Sharks, Weather Rooster, and Acting Bug segments.

Blue Ribbon Content needed a funky logo identification piece animated to use at the end of various productions.

The very creative brief citing abstract experimental filmmakers among other things launched Chris McD into a multimedia exploration of clay, digital collage, drawn animation, live action, and stop-motion spaghetti. Chris also produced the soundtracks for each clip. The first clip was used, and several additional directions follow in this reel.