Chris Homa is a freelance animator and video editor. He is based in New York City and Philadelphia. He draws his frames by hand.
The MasterCard Foundation is a nonprofit that provides scholarships to college students from Africa so that they can study abroad. I was hired on by them as a full-time Multimedia Developer, doing video editing, illustrations, and document design.
The first video is from a set of online lessons about career development. I received the footage from the in-house videographer, then it was my job to find a style, design graphics, and edit the video.
The Foundation was building out a private social network for its scholarship students. They asked me to produce video tutorials to help show students how to use it, so I created motion graphic videos that mimicked the appearance of the website, but with dynamic and engaging animation.
I asked for production assignments when they were available. For the video above, I did everything myself, from setting up lights and sound to running camera and conducting the interview, and then doing the edit afterwards. I did the music, too! I think they were surprised by that. My boss was convinced it was stock music until I told her about using GarageBand to come up with the melody.