HEADACHE FILMS,LLC

Headache Films is a full service 2D animation production house in Portland, Oregon. Living the dream!

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Characters designed for a multitude of campaigns!  Stanford, CarFax, Second City. They’re all here. All designs are trademarks of their respective owners.

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A little change in design is good! Samples from animations done in a more technical/motion graphic style for 2 different agencies: Fashion Buddha in Portland and Evolve Media in San Francisco.

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Character design & illustration for two ESPN 'RBS:Six Nations' commercials we animated,together with Magneticgoat. Bonus procedural illustration, from rough sketch to cleanup to final!

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Character design from a recent Dutch broadcast TV piece.

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1-2: Prop design for an internal Microsoft project

3-4 Asset design for an online game

5 Emulated design style for TV commercial for ‘Peach Tree Financial’

6 A mix of cartoony with a hard outline for a more 3D cell shaded look

7 Errant architecture! And silly characters symbolising different nationalities in Egyptian times, all made for Dutch broadcast TV.

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Character design:1-4: Samples of a series of animated commercials I produced for Our Oregon, featuring a little girl named Alice. She went up against big money interests in Oregon in the 2012 elections

5-6 is a sample from an animation I did on campaign finance reform, the one after that is a page of sketches of character design for the constituents in the film.

7-8 are two frames from animation I produce for a Dutch tv history triva TV show.

9 is the ‘Pen’ mascot I designed for Basic Rights Oregon's wildly succesful signature gathering campaign.

10 is a frame from an animation I did for a Stanford University animation, showcasing diversity in the workplace.

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I have a serious thing for detail, architecture and Richard Scarry.

The first town sequence was part of an animation for Nike’s ‘Niketown’.

The second city was an illustration done for Ecotrust, with an eye on '21st Century jobs', such as water sanitation engineer, solar panel manufacturer, programmers, artisanal small business etc.

The last illustration was part of an animation for a Dutch TV show on an Egyptian legend.

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Some more different styles from different projects, all 100% digital.

1) Frame from a music video for Icelandic singer Ane Brun, rotoscoped over live footage, inverted colors and crosshatched the shadows for each frame.

2) Doggie design/animation for the launch of Tommy Hilfiger’s flagship store launch in Dortmund (Germany).

3) Digital watercolour and whimsical designs for F'real Milkshakes

4) Chalkboard look and feel for a Hometown Buffet TV commercial.

5) Samples from a Dutch animation about the origin of Polenta.

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Concept character design for original character "Hamlet, the tragically doomed pig". Series of animated shorts about Hamlet, an adorable and innocent but tragically doomed pig. A let of ham, if you will.

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Character design & illustration for album art for NYC band "Cudzoo & the Faggettes".

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Umpqua bank commissioned a commercial to showcase all the areas that Umpqua Bank serves and takes the viewer through 3 different areas: Rural, Suburban and Metropolitan in 90 seconds. The concept was written, designed, produced and animated by Headache Films.