Chad Wixom – Video & Art Director, Designer
Specializing in graphics, motion, video, and sound for unique creative clients.
I work with concepts from a brief or straight out of my head. I'm like a human A.I. prompt engine that can imagine content for any size screen or setting for you. Much of my work aligns with agencies, studios, and businesses that need well-crafted content to sell an idea, passively entertain, tell a story, or kick off a campaign. The work can range from brand to commercial application for large-scale media, kiosks, retail settings, intimate lobby experiences, passive content for arena displays, concert backdrops, scene animations, presentations, marketing explainers, or online web/social media.
Clean Slate, Stunning Designs
The focus has always been on crafting work that seamlessly resonates and translates into diverse executions for maximum impact regardless of fleeting trends.
Visual Idea Factory
Visual content meets imagination with deep design experience and exists as boards, renders, pitches, presentations, projects, editorial-directed videos, and case studies archived with clients and partners.
Presentation, Interaction
The mission is to concept, research, and stir alchemy into stunning designs and stories that leave lasting impressions for clients. I direct concepts from ideation to completion for campaigns, brand identity, retail, passive beauty, or narratives.
Pixelfire Productions tapped me to create concepts for a video wall in Chicago's AON Center. I wrote over 50 concept treatments which were reduced to a handful that Pixelfire was capable of doing within budget. I found this to be a great opportunity to dive into my bag of tricks to create content using my A.I. studio, Death By Pixels Media and blend my traditional design skills with new technology.
Final mockups were created by taking incremental renders from my prompts in Midjourney and Adobe Firefly and mashing them in Photoshop to make entire panoramic scenes from the pieces. This means they were not entirely A.I. and took a lot of production know-how-madness to create them at scale for the video wall's aspect ratio.
I was asked to come up with several ideas that would visually captivate a passive audience in the lobby of Prudential One in Chicago. I made a concept that involved floating doors opening to video panoramics of places we shot along with some stop motion ambience.
Pixelfire tapped me to create beautiful concepts as passive panoramic videos for Rite Aid's retail store. I created a lot of different content pieces, shot video, and put together a playlist complete with sound design.
Samsung wanted to install a new layout in their corporate lobby and asked Pixelfire could design some videos that played off the design of the wall. I was hired to come up with some concepts, here are two of them.
Pixelfire hired me to work with JVC as a client and they needed a shoot and concept director to step in and create 4 videos for their headphones campaign that would play on a NYTSQ vertical screen and photos for their web landing pages. I put several concepts together to sell an intertwined concept centered on sport, play, entertainment, and later, fashion (Elation). I balanced a full production crew with talent and 2 videographer/photographer teams. I also took the design seat and assisted with post-production final looks and edits.
I was asked to lead the Pixelfire crew on a journey into Cyber Defense theater. I worked with a writer to create an 8-minute video as a first-person narrative with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Julia White discussing how the Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) works. The final video was projected onto a smoked out video wall in a special room (seen above).
The idea of the video was created to have any group on tour come into the room and watch how the CDOC unfolds. There is also a big defense team that works real-time on the cyber technology in the adjacent war room behind the smoked glass.
This is a New York Times Square takeover for Branded Cities and Puma that had me working aroung the clock on stand-by to update live graphics as the event unfolded.
This project was a bit happenstance in that Alex Ball is a very special talent with a knack for making documentaries and little 20-minute episodic shows reviewing synthesizers from his home studio in London. I saw one of Alex's videos and reached out to ask if he needed any motion design work. Turns out he was working on a feature showcasing the history of ARP Instruments at Synthfest UK and he would indeed need some help with intro/credit animation and title designs and animations throughout.
An agency named, Hey! had a project with Microsoft that needed some screen replacement work done. (Contoso is as a fictional company placeholder name for Microsoft). I worked remotely as a VFX advisor and artist to get them through the initial phases of their presentation piece and also worked on updates for each round.
Vossler Media created a digital short that was entered into film festivals. I was hired as a VFX artist to build some nostalgic 80s scenes and blow up the Earth comedically. Not only did I blow up the Earth, I also created the entire intro commercial scenes by compositing product shots animating assets given to me. Additionally, there was a need to do some VFX in many of the film scenes throughout and I consulted on UI elements for animated the readout screen. This won best comedic digital short, and also won Best VFX and other category awards at several film competitions. The entire project was created under the hood at Vossler with many people dipping their skills into the production bucket.
RUN STUDIOS wanted to create an animated video that demonstrates how QR codes work for their automated "scan to try-on" hands-free app for Amazon Style. I was tapped to create this motion product showing how the customer engagement path worked. This animation stemmed from a video of a live walk-through they shot early in the process but animation was needed to further flesh out and sell the concept where the video couldn't.
I reached out to an artist that creates art that caught my eye on the doom scroll. He didn't have a logo or brand and I thought I would connect with him and start a conversation about what he was doing to market his art. He had very little going. I spent several months with him brainstorming, befriending, and helping him market his stuff. Once we got him rolling with endless new ideas on how to approach his audience on social media, Scott finally needed a logo that made sense.
Work created for Scott Bruce https://pop-smack.com/
OTHER WORKS
Below are boards, client assets, style and brand renders, and photography.
Static graphic, typographic, 3D rendered, and photographic media work for clients and personal enjoyment.
Contact:
EMAIL: heychad@chadwixom.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwixom/
A.I. STUDIO: http://deathbypixels.media
PHONE: 425-351-9626 (text preferred)
Clients & Partners:
Retail: (Walmart, Microsoft Store, Rite Aid)
Financial & Insurance: (Amex, Citi, Mastercard, Bloomberg, LyondellBasell)
Fashion & Apparel: (Nike, Puma, BCBGeneration, Aeropostale)
Health & Beauty: (Walmart CYB, Amazon Style, Narvona, 1-800 CONTACTS)
Services: (UPS, Amazon AWS, Bing, T-Mobile, Micorosft Answer Desk, HP, CDW)
Sports: (Xbox Games, NASCAR, Metlife Stadium (Jets/Giants), NBA, USTA/ESPN)
Healthcare & Retirement: (Suntrust, Sunlife)
Automotive: (Volkswagon, BF Goodrich)
Beverage & Food: (Wendy's Heineken, Coca Cola, Cool Whip, TGIF, Athena)
Travel & Hospitality: (Moxy Hotels, Disneyland, Priceline, Bing)
Entertainment: (Disney, Universal, Sony, New Line, Dreamworks, Columbia, Showtime, HBO, Documentaries)
Technology & Sciences: (Boeing/NASA, Tableau, Brocade, Hololens, Nanolumens, Samsung)
Cyber Security: (Microsoft CDOC, Goldcorp/MARS Drinks, F5, Amazon)
Other: (KIMAD Apparel, Narvona, Maritime Training Services, RunPee)