Brown University

NYU Stern School of Business

Executive Creative Director

BUCK

Group Creative Director (Experience)

Voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences / Primetime Emmy Awards in the Motion & Title Design Peer Group.

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Voting Member - Motion & Title Design Peer Group

Slanted Studios develops hand-crafted animation for interactive content to help brands create memorable experiences in a fast-paced digital environment. Our clients include Twitter, Google, Facebook, Netflix, The Atlantic, Vox, Viacom, Adult Swim, Coach, and Nike.

Slanted Studios

Founder / Executive Creative Director

Providing freelance creative/technical direction and animation/compositing for various studios, production companies and agencies. Specialties include pre-viz and interactive/experiential workflow, complex 2.5D After Effects pipeline design, compositing for green-screen and puppetry/stop-motion. 

Clients include: 
Boss Creative, Brand New School, FCB New York, Hornet, Loyalkaspar, Nick Jr., Pentagram, PepRally, Psyop, Stardust Studios, The Mill, The Science Project, The Ebeling Group, Trollbäck+Company

Work created for:
AT&T, Verizon, Google, Salesforce, Comedy Central, GE, Walmart, ESPN, cBBC, Food Network, MTV, Nintendo, Charles Schwab, Nike, H&M, Havaianas, Kellogg's, Fanta, McDonald's, Burger King, Hannaford, Presidentti, Avon, L'Occitane

Freelance, self-employed

Creative Director / Technical Director / Animator

Creative Director

Creative Director of Vox Media’s explainer series helping curious people better understand a complex world, delivering daily on Quibi. 

Created a bespoke animation pipeline, cross-department workflows, and recruited/led a team of 10+ all-star animators to deliver 131 daily 5-minute episodes - all produced totally remote during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. In total, our team produced 13+ hours of content, 3+ hours of which were original motion graphics. Consistently performed in the top of our platform and hit #7 on YouTube trending w/ over a million views in under 17 hours.

Vox Media, LLC.

Creative Director - Answered by Vox

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj explores the modern cultural and political landscape with depth and sincerity. Over its six season run, this weekly series on Netflix won a Peabody Award, two Webby Awards and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design.

Netflix

Creative Director - Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

Worked with an all-star team to concept, design, and execute 100+ deliverables across 20+ media surfaces for a Fortune 10 client's Executive Briefing Center.

The Mill

Technical Director

With over 40,000 visits a day from around the world, Motionographer is the leading source of inspiration and news for motion design, animation and filmmaking. 

As Editor, interviewed filmmakers in long-form pieces and curated short films, commercial work, music videos, student work and industry news.

Motionographer

Editor

Contributing Writer

Commercial representation in the US as part of the Mixtape Club directing team. Clients include Showtime Networks, Nike, Nick Jr., Starbucks, and Google's first ever advertising campaign.

Hornet Inc.

Director

Commercial representation in Europe as part of the Mixtape Club directing team. Clients included Vodafone, Channel 5, and Woolworth's.

Passion Pictures

Projects include music videos for Pains of Being Pure at Heart's "Say No to Love", Passion Pit's "To Kingdom Come", My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt. 2", Yeasayer's "Wait For The Summer", TV on the Radio's "Me-I", and J Dilla's "Nothing Like This".

Mixtape Club

Director / Founding Partner

Assisted in electronics assembly, on-site installation, and documentation of interactive video installations and sculptures at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (Valencia, Spain), Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), New Museum (NYC), La Regenta Gallery (Las Palmas, Canary Islands), Siggraph 2005 (LA), and Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (PA). Created illustrations and animated mock ups for future installations.

Michelle Higa Fox