Nicholas Weigel Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

I established !haTke! in 2013 to pursue remote design and animation projects, working from the Pacific Northwest. We cherish the moments we sync with friends and admired collaborators, collectively creating something wonderful for clients such as Nike, Coke and META. Usually it moves.We are actively crafting relevant outputs, integrating generative models, data curation, and annotation to find the closest union between Accuracy and Relevance. A new era of how to approach creativity is afoot!

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Joined as part of the AR Art team within Meta Reality Labs and focused on creating first-party Mixed Reality content and systems for Meta wearables.

As a freelance creative, I design, develop, and direct projects of various shapes, sizes, and dimensions. From creating a photogrammetry stage for Nike concept shoes to publishing PFPs on OpenSea, capturing point cloud data for Meta's Reality Labs, or developing animated shorts for Netflix, I embrace the diverse opportunities that freelancing offers, continuously learning and growing.Highlights:LinksDAO: PFP NFT Launched on OpenSea 2022 - 3.3K owners. BrandLive: Original animated content for a video conferencing platform.The Artery: Directed spots for LinkedIn and Mercedes; Creative consult for TraderJoe Crypto. InvisibleThread: Creative direction for META's POI & AR Experiences.CoreLogic: Campaign concepts, brand refresh and global web launch assetts. Framestore: Mixed Reality Interactive concepts for Dell House at Sundance.Widen+Kennedy: VR Art Direction, KFC onboarding VR game and training experience. BrandNew School: BAYER, Stop-motion director for "Dirt Rich", animated entirely from 100% dirt.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

In my role as ECD at Alkemy X in New York, I spearheaded global creative direction for a wide range of projects, including live action, series, VFX, and commercials. By focusing on internal ideation, I was able to cultivate new business opportunities and strengthen creative relationships.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Created Mixed Reality & F8 Experiences for META, Instagram, Oculus. Pitches primarily for META & Apple.

Portland, Or, Us

Designed VR worlds and branded content experiences for various immersive projects at W+K Portland. Clients include; Samsung, KFC, Coke.

London, England, Gb

Design and Direct in a wide range of mediums for AAA clients including Verizon, Tag Heuer, Beautyrest, Reebok, Biogen VR, Intel, Hood, Northrup Grumman, SeaWorld, BackFlip Games, and Samsung.

New York, Ny, Us

Pitch new commercial business; Bayer, Seagate, Sound United, Patron & Gold Fish, collaborate with staff creative directors on new projects and in house jobs, directed spots for Bayer and Sound United - Definitive Technology - wireless music system.

Hillsboro, Or, Us

Award winning director of multiple commercial projects - launched independent film.

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Directed team of freelance artists while collaborating with leadership and stakeholders.Crafted a launch cinematic trailer for Cartoon Network's breakout MMOG game "Fusion Fall".The work received significant acclaim within the animation and gaming communities.

London, England, Gb

Animation Director on behalf of PSYOP & STINK to create a "furry forest romp" for Orangina "Naturally Juicy" - turned heads and raised eyebrows :)

New York, New York, Us

Animation Director on Coke's Happiness Factory 2, and the Animated Documentary Inside the Happiness Factory.

New York, Ny, Us

Team Lead for 11 internal artists to complete various CG commercial projects.

New York, Ny, Us

Built and recruited in-house team to bolster Hornet's 3D animation capabilities. Directed various commercial works in all mediums. Highlight - "Puberty" pilot for MTV - manifestations of puberty realized as 3D animated short-comedy vignettes.

New York, Ny, Us

Conceived and wrote a series of branded short films for Fuse Network.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Led 30 person internal Animation team - created original pilots, proof of concept production models & adopted "pushed thorough" projects that fell off the rails and made them wins again.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Cutting teeth in animation direction 3d, 2d, Original Stories for TV and Film.

Joined as Animation dIrector, Partner and ran profitable, award winning, boutique production studio. Sold to WildBrain in 1998.3D Animation Lead on numerous national television commercials.Lead Animator and TD on Fern Gully II feature film.Created numerous advancements in 2d + 3d integration.Developed original content for television and web.Directed award winning spot for Ford Focus Zx3.

New York, Us

My 1st Job in the industry was for Atari Games... I started as an intern and commuted by rollerblades and a bus. Eventually, I was hired on as an assoc Animator for the bound for oblivion "HoopFighter" arcade game before being selected to join other internal teams as an Animator for: Area 51, Primal Rage and was promoted to Art Direct a special game designed specifically for the Japaneese Pussle market (which was exploding at the time). These projects were all real "arcade" wood box games... 500lbs or more - a real arcade games from the 90's. It was a profoundly exciting way to enter the field of using art, emerging 3D tools and being part of a professional community with such a nostalgic impact! loved it.

Ba, Art & Anthropology

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