Nathaniel Akin

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    About

    Nathaniel Akin is an award winning animation director with work in film, television, print media and online.
    He’s directed campaigns for all kinds of clients including Bell Canada, Kelloggs, Bank of America, Converse and Nestle.
    He created the first interactive campaign using YouTube’s internal linking feature and has had the pleasure of creating custom pipelines for animation in unique visual styles including 8-bit pixel, ASCII, cross stitch and white board.

    Styles

    Vector

    Vector

    This is clean infographic style is used for this BC Hydro ad, this C.Diff explainer and this short film.

    3D

    3D

    Samples of a 3D style include my Converse spot, this BCLC ad and this Delissio spot.

    Collage

    Collage

    I've directed spots in this cut-up collage style animation for BC Elections and Sam Adams as well as a kids web series called All Terrain Brain.

    8-bit Pixel

    8-bit Pixel

    I've directed a ton of 8-bit pixel style videos, primarily for the Bell Canada campaign.

    Whiteboard

    Whiteboard

    I've directed a number of whiteboard explainer style video series for clients including Bank of America and Scotiabank.

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