Gif Master • Contract Editor

 
 

My Kinda Funny work begins with a gif. This one to be exact.

Since that day four years ago, I’ve become known in the Kinda Funny community for my gifs. I’ve produced over 900 of them and we’ve garnered over 1.8 Billion Gif Views since I migrated all of my gifs to one place in September 2020. These gifs range from simple 2 second clips to intricate motion graphic projects that make me ask myself “Do I even know how to do that?” and most of the time the answer is “No.” followed by a Google search and a new technique. That’s one of the things I love about the gifs - they continually teach me new ways to think about projects and without a doubt have had a positive impact on my day-to-day work life.

Please click the logo below to visit the Kinda Funny Giphy page. I’d like to note that every gif on the page was created by me, as well as all the branding headers for each talent’s page to match their branding design on other channels.

But that’s only a portion of my work with Kinda Funny! Please see below the video projects I’ve been contracted out by the team to create. Most of the time it’s a “Year in Review” type sizzle reel for their annual Kinda Funny Day to recap all the shenanigans they got up to in the year prior, with the exception of a very cool title sequence project they asked me to take on.

 
 

2021 Kinda Funny DAY Video

For the past two years, Kinda Funny has contracted me out to start their annual Kinda Funny Day stream with a fun video highlighting the best moments of the past year. This year was a little different than 2020’s (further down the page), as this video would pull double duty. We’d first and foremost tell the story of how 2020 went - with talent starting the year like normal in the studio and very quickly transitioning to the working from home life, and transition to the big announcement of the video: that they wouldn’t return to the studio that they called home for the past 5 years.

Tim Gettys from Kinda Funny had the idea to use Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” to really hammer in the feelings, and from there gave me free reign creatively (this is a common theme that I love about working with KF). I took it from there with the timeline idea to show you going forward in time and knew that would be a great way to show them going back in time to the first time we saw the studio and let the audience slowly get the message that this is a farewell video. I loved the use of match cuts in this video, scouring the behind the scenes videos they gave me access to to match frames to show the studio while they were having fun, and then transition to it being torn down. Real “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air finale” vibes that I was going for.


This project had a couple of small back and forths to showcase all their programs, but both I and KF were extremely happy with this one’s result.

RTX COMEDY NIGHT TITLE SEQUENCE

This short video had to pull a lot of weight. This video would play at the beginning of Kinda Funny’s RTX comedy special to introduce what it was in case someone had stumbled upon it to show them “Hey this is a stand up comedy special”, and we really wanted to leverage the amount of awesome talent on display in this special. Inspired by a lot of HBO’s awesome title sequences, I wanted to play with putting the titles in the world. So once I decided to do that, the task at hand was straight-forward, if not a little daunting: roto all 16 people who had a set while telling a cohesive promo and intro to the show.


So suffice to say it was a challenge and everyone ended up loving the concept and execution!

 

Kinda Funny Day 2020 Intro

The 2020 Kinda Funny Day Intro was the first time I was tasked with finding a way to celebrate and highlight all 12 months of content that Kinda Funny made in 2019, with at least 2 hours of podcasting per day, and brand new seasonal shows debuted, there was quite a bit of content to shift through. For the past year, the YouTube landing page had the “We’re Kinda Funny…” video on it and I knew I had to start by making fun of that. The rest was a process of getting everything together to tell a cohesive throughline of not only the year but the evolution of the content throughout the year.

I believe this one was made in the weeks leading up to Christmas 2019 outside of work when I’d get home and was a task to say the least, but one I look back on proudly.