Emmy Winner for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2020.
In 2019 I worked as a designer and animator with Digital Kitchen for a new Epix original show, Godfather of Harlem. The visual style was inspired by Romare Bearden and other African-American artists from 1960s Harlem. To achieve this look, we created collages in Photoshop from different sources - royalty free imagery, our own actual photography, and cut outs from old magazines.
Some of these stop motion style animations were achieved in After Effects, while a few were created as real stop motion pieces, cutting, folding, and crumbling paper, frame by frame. The realistic paper textures were crucial for giving the piece visual specificity - like it was crafted with the tools that artists used in the 20th century.
Thanks to the incredible direction of Mason Nicoll and Peter Pak, we won an Emmy in 2020 for Outstanding Main Title Design.
Production Company: Digital Kitchen
Client: Epix
Creative Director: Mason Nicoll
Designer/Lead Animator/Art Director: Peter Pak
Design & Animation: Giovana Pham, Cisco Torres
Producer: Michael Cates
