Outside of science, animation is an incredible way to just teach your viewer something they wouldn’t have known. It could simplify a technical process, like nuclear fusion works or how B-52 operate and fly in formation. Animation can reveal our history in a way books couldn’t easily describe, such as how pueblan houses and Mayan temples might have appeard hundreds of years ago. Through maps, they can show the front lines in war and where enemy forces moved over time. Working as a motion graphics artist and as a freelancer on shows for Smithsonian and National Geographic, I’ve had a lot of great opportunities to bring this information to life visually for a number of fascinating series.

My work has been the backdrop for concerts, in large screen presentations for NASA, and in the Time and Navigation Exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. One interactive animated piece I helped produce, teaches you how seafarers oriented themselves using the stars.