Before finding my one true love, motion graphics, I was once upon a time in a galaxy far away, a civil engineer. While I really enjoyed working as an engineer, I constantly suffered from a stubborn creative itch that had always been there and wouldn’t go away. Upon returning to Sydney from a round the world trip with much time to think (and scratch), I found myself at a crossroads working full time nocturnally in cocktail bars all over pre-lockout Sydney, reluctant to return to my engineering profession in search of a cure to my artistic ailment. So I finally made the jump to go back to study graphic design at the Design Centre Enmore, it was there that I opened After Effects for the first time, and it was love at first sight. From then I knew that I had found my path, motion graphics. And after my journey through engineering, graphic design and hospitality, I’ve come to terms with my unhealthy obsession with maths, my guilty pleasure for typography, and my sleep depriving love of people, even when they’ve had too much to drink… though I am happy now to not be serving them anymore.

Motion Design is not only my career, it connects my passions with my talents and gives me purpose. Since I was a kid I’ve always enjoyed learning and practicing new skills, I’ve been passionate about art and music, I’ve loved both telling stories and appreciated good storytelling in movies and books, and I’ve been drawn to solving problems and challenging the mind any way that I can. I feel blessed that my profession and craft in motion design contains all of these incredible aspects that I find engaging and ensure that I continue to grow as a creative person. I love nothing more than to share my passion for motion design with the world.

As much as I’m passionate about the craft behind the work that I do, I enjoy creative problem solving at every phase of the project pipeline from concept to delivery. As I apply acute attention to detail with my work, I am continually fascinated by the visual, conceptual and quantitative problem solving aspects involved in motion design, which all serve as perfect outlets for my OCD.

Other practical applications of my OCD include:

• Packing the car for a camping trip like a Tetris Jedi Master Prodigy

• Same thing with the fridge (warm beer is unAustralian)

• Naming every single layer in my working files (and then God said, let there be light)