Portfolio of Work

In Jake's portfolio, you will see a wide variety of content. The examples shown are a small sample of his filming, editing and vfx, animation, print media, audio production, and AI generation.

Corporate Video Examples

What Team Dynamics Do You Enjoy?

HPF Getting Started

XPO 2016 Year Recap

Gretchens House

University of Michigan Cancer Bio

Grede’s Foundry 101 Training Video

Trilogy Apartments

Making Artistic Thinking Visible A Pedagogical Journey

Grede Visitor Safety

Cinematography Examples

Motorcoach

Motorcoach is a short film Jake Co-Directed, Shot and Edited for the 2018 Detroit 48 hour film project. The film won Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Graphics, Best Use of Character, Best Sports Film, and the 1st place Best Film.

Eastern Michigan Men’s Basketball

This intro Jake made for the 2015-2016 EMU Men's basketball season. The intro played before each home game and on live TV before each televised home game.

Small Fish

Small Fish is an independent short film Jake Produced, Co-Directed, Shot, Edited, and more on.

Negative Space

Negative Space was made for the 2019 Detroit Horror Film Festival. Jake shot and edited the film.

Roadmap

Roadmap is a short film that Jake won Best Cinematography and Best Music for. Jake shot, edited and helped produce the short film.
 

Corporate Headshots

Travel Photos

Event Photos

Hero Shots

Video Editing and VFX Examples

All editing was done in either Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe After Effects

Pandora's Wish (Fantasy Short Film)

Pandora’s Wish is a short film written, directed, shot and edited by Jake. The film features black light photography visual effects composited over real footage.
Software used; Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Home Point Rewards

This video features cut out stock imagers with an engaging visual treatment.

Remembering the 10-year anniversary of when a U-M Survival Flight plane went down

Brokers Are Better

Brokers Are Better is a video made entirely of stock footage.
 

University Of Michigan Doctors of Tomorrow Documentary

The Doctors of Tomorrow Documentary is a video Jake shot and edited over the course of a half of a year documenting The University of Michigan Med Schools involvement in the community.

Animation and Motion Graphic Examples

Animation and Motion Graphics were completed in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator.

So you just closed your loan with Home Point!

This video was created to be emailed out to every new loan closed at Home Point. Animation was done in Adobe After Effects.

Passphrases E-Safe #2

Passphrases is the second video installment in the EMU I.T. E-Safe campaign. This video features cartoon characters who are animated and composited onto live footage. The characters were made in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays was created to be sent out in an email blast with Home Point's holiday customer facing emails. The video was created in After Effects.

Wireless Launch Button

Wireless Launch Button was created to submit into the Doritos 2015 Crash The Super Bowl Competition. The short uses a mixture of CG elements, photography and live footage. It follows Joseph, a talking Doritos, after he steals a wireless launch button.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday from Home Point Financial was animated in After Effects. The short’s purpose was to be sent out to customers on their birthday.

What is Escrow?

What is Escrow was created for Home Point outlining what escrow is. The video was animated in Adobe After Effects.

Home point Rewards

Home Point Rewards is an animated video created for Home Point Financial. Jake storyboarded, animated, and edited the video.

Graphic Design Examples

Graphic elements were created in Photoshop and Illustrator

Audio Production Examples

Audio work was done in Logic Pro and Adobe Audition

Small Fish (Short Film)

Small Fish is a short film Jake removed all the original audio and replace everything with audio recorded after production. This includes ADR replacement on all the voice lines and re-recording all the sounds you hear.

This Means War and Castle on The Hill

In addition to video, animation, and graphic production, Jake also actively plays and record music. Here are two examples of his covers on his YouTube Channel. "This Means War" by Marianas Trench and "Castle On The Hill" by Ed Sheeran. The two videos demonstrate Jake's ability to play multiple instruments, record, mix, edit, mastering and produced multi-track sessions with a variety of instrumentation.

AI Generation Examples

AI work is done in ChatGPT, Midjourney, RunwayML, ElevenLabs, and Suno

Operator Seven (Short Film)

Operator Seven is a AI powered short film created for RunwayML’s Gen48 film competition. I used ChatGPT for story and visuals, RunwayML for image to video generation, and ElevenLabs for Voices.

Frequency Falls Feature Film (Pre-Production)