ANIMATION · VFX · TECHNICAL DESIGN · SINCE 1989

Broadcast-grade Motion Graphics, Design, Animation, Visual Effects and Evidence

25 years making television for The WB Television Network, Kids' WB and The CW Television Network. Now I run on-air and online streaming promo for channels without a department, fix shots in post, and turn technical evidence into animation juries understand.

For networks & channelsFor attorneys
3D motion graphics by Brian Oliver
3D motion graphics — broadcast work
PRE-VIS FIRST
Plan it in pre-vis. Get it right the first time.
Every technical project starts with pre-vis: a real-time Unreal Engine build of the shot, the set extension, the booth or the courtroom scene that locks camera, timing and look, so production, fabrication and trial go right the first time.
Approvals at every step are the key.
01 — FOR NETWORKS, STREAMERS & FAST CHANNELS

Your own on-air & online streaming promo department

From 2020 to 2023 I ran The CW Television Network's Graphics Department, which supported the On-Air Broadcast, Outdoor Marketing, and Online Streaming Promotional platforms — fully remote, through the pandemic, without missing a deadline. As Executive Director, I not only produced and directed content for on-air and streaming on nearly every platform. I also directed the Graphics Department's project management and asset tracking across tens of thousands of deliveries. Before that, my Kids' WB and WB promo work won 17 PROMAX and BDA Gold awards. Now I offer that same department to channels that don't have one.

Monthly retainer or flat rate per project, one point of contact, broadcast standards and approvals at every step. Built for FAST channels, streaming services, local stations launching streams, and networks running lean after consolidation.

PRICING
From $1,200 per day

A monthly retainer for ongoing work, or a flat rate for a single campaign or project, depending on the job. How pricing works

Ask about a retainer or project rate
Kids' WB on-air promo animation
Channel identity
IDs, bumpers, lower thirds, end pages.
Promos & trailers
Series, tune-in and stunt spots, cut to time.
Platform assets
Key art and trailers to each platform's specs.
Social cutdowns
Vertical and square versions from every spot.
02 — FOR PRODUCERS, EDITORS & MUSIC VIDEOS

Fix it in post

The shot is almost right. I make it right — fast, invisible VFX cleanup and Unreal Engine set extensions from someone who has supervised green screen on set and delivered broadcast to deadline for 30 years. Recent example: 16 shots of 4K, 59.94 fps cleanup for an Andrea Bocelli music video in under two days.

Andrea Bocelli and Virginia Bocelli in the Dare to Be music video
"Dare to Be" — lighting, facial and reflection cleanup · Watch
PowerPuff Girls upfront lab sequence
PowerPuff Girls upfront — lab comps and wire removal · Watch

Green-screen mattes

Clean keys on hair, motion blur and uneven screens; spill suppression and background replacement.

Wire & rig removal

Wires, rigs, stands, crew reflections and boom mics painted out and tracked through the shot.

Beauty & cleanup

Skin and facial cleanup, glasses glare, lighting fixes, logos and unwanted objects removed frame by frame.

Roto

Articulated roto for comps, color isolation and sky replacements, including high-frame-rate 4K footage.

Set extension

Extend or replace the set with real-time Unreal Engine environments, tracked to the camera move and matched to the plate's lighting.

Pre-vis

Plan the hard shots in Unreal before anyone rolls camera: lens, moves, green-screen coverage and set extensions, so post is a finish, not a rescue. You approve every stage before the next begins.

PRICING
From $1,200 per day

Base day rate, flexible with the scope and the client. Send the footage and I'll quote from the actual shots. How pricing works

Send me the shots
03 — FOR TRIAL ATTORNEYS

Technical & litigation animation

Jurors remember what they see. I turn your expert's data into clear, accurate 3D animation — now built in Unreal Engine with broadcast-level polish, and checked against the record at every step. For IP and patent cases, personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and insurance defense.

Computer artwork from LSI, 1991
LSI, 1991 — from the early years of technical animation
TRACK RECORD
Not Actual Court Evidence — for demonstrative purposes only
c. 1990 · INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Semiconductor layout copying

For a landmark chip-protection case that ended in a Plaintiff verdict over $25 million: an exploded 3D model of the chip's layers, morphing one company's layout into the other's to show how the defendant reverse engineered the original chip design.

Not Actual Court Evidence — for demonstrative purposes only
c. 1990 · ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION

Interstate truck crash

3D reconstruction of a multi-vehicle chain-reaction collision involving a loaded steel tractor-trailer at a highway bridge, built from reconstruction data for the defense.

Not Actual Court Evidence — for demonstrative purposes only
1990 · MEDICAL DEVICE

Surgical mesh in hernia repair

An animated explanation of how surgical mesh is placed to repair a hernia — anatomy, device and procedure in one clear sequence.

WHAT I BUILD

IP & patent demonstratives

Chip layouts, mechanisms and inventions compared side by side, so a jury sees the similarity your expert describes.

Accident reconstruction

Vehicle, trucking and workplace incidents, animated from your reconstructionist's measurements, speeds and sightlines.

Medical & device explainers

Mechanism of injury, procedures, implants and devices, reviewed with your medical expert so the jury follows the science.

Trial boards & stills

High-resolution frames from the same scene, for mediation briefs, settlement packets and printed exhibits.

HOW IT WORKS
  1. 1
    Case call, under NDA.We talk through the case, the theory and what the jury needs to see. No charge.
  2. 2
    Data from your expert.I build from the reconstructionist's or physician's findings — nothing invented.
  3. 3
    Pre-vis and attorney review.A fast real-time pre-vis lets you and your expert check angles, timing and sightlines before final rendering; nothing moves forward without your approval.
  4. 4
    Trial-ready delivery.Final video, stills and a documented build record to support foundation.
PRICING
$150–200 per hour

Written estimate after I review your case materials. Never contingency. Rush schedules available for trial dates.

04 — FOR BUILDERS, EXHIBITORS & INSTALLERS

Design & fabrication drawings

From an idea to drawings a shop can build from. Every build starts as a pre-vis you can walk through in 3D and approve before a single panel is cut. I design in 3D, then deliver technical drawings, build specifications and print-ready files — the same precision I bring to evidence, applied to things you can stand on, sit in and sell from.

Technical drawingsBuild specificationsBooth & exhibit design3D printing: FDM & SLALaser cutting & engravingCustom furniture & installs
Allegory Comic-Con booth design render
EXHIBIT DESIGN

Comic-Con booths

Convention booths designed in 3D and drawn up for the fabrication shop.

See the booths →
[STILL: Excursion audio install drawing]
VEHICLE INSTALL

Mobile sound studio

Technical drawings for an audio studio installed in the back of a Ford Excursion.

See the build →
Music bench 3D model
FURNITURE

Music bench

A custom music bench, modeled in 3D and drawn for the build.

See the drawings →
3D Printed, 8 String Dulcimer
3D PRINTING

3D Printed, 8 String Dulcimer

An instrument of my own design, 3D printed and refined through two generations of prototypes.

See the prints →
Start a build
05 — SELECTED WORK

Recent projects

Kids' WB backlot rebuilt in Unreal Engine
3D · UNREAL ENGINE

Kids' WB backlot fly-through

Original Kids' WB set geometry rebuilt as a real-time Unreal environment.

Watch the fly-through →
Dare to Be music video still
VFX · CLEANUP · ROTO

"Dare to Be" — Andrea Bocelli

16 shots of 4K, 59.94 fps cleanup — lighting, facial and reflection fixes — in under two days.

Watch the video →
PowerPuff Girls upfront lab sequence
VFX · COMPOSITING

PowerPuff Girls upfront, 2021

Lab sequence, flying shots, monitor comps and wire removal.

Watch the upfront →

More reels, 3D prints and personal projects in the Xandad's Scrapbook and on YouTube.

06 — AWARDS

24 PROMAX & BDA awards

Industry recognition for on-air promotion and broadcast design, 1991–2007 — most of it for Kids' WB and The WB Television Network, in creative direction, design, animation and compositing.

17
GOLD
7
SILVER

Education: Thomas More College — Brown and Bagby Scholarships, 1984–1988; elected Student Director for the Fall 1988 theatre season.

  1. 2007PROMAX GOLDSupernatural “Infected” :30
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  2. 2007PROMAX GOLDLive from Fairytale Land “Bad Guys”
    Creative & technical direction
  3. 2007PROMAX GOLDShaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! marketing presentation
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  4. 2007PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! 2006 Coconut Fred animation campaign
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  5. 2007PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! Fall 2006 promotional animation campaign
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  6. 2007PROMAX GOLDPillow Head Hour campaign
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  7. 2007PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! Fall 2006 ID campaign
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  8. 2007PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! Fall 2006 ID “Bowling Tower”
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction
  9. 2006PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! Son of the Mask feature “Babysitters”
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  10. 2006PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! AfterToons teaser
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  11. 2006PROMAX SILVERKids' WB! Fall 2005 image campaign
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  12. 2006PROMAX SILVERKids' WB! AfterToons campaign
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  13. 2005PROMAX GOLDKids' WB! “Bring on the Batman”
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  14. 2005PROMAX GOLDOoh Ooh Aah Ahh Island — Monkey Summer
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  15. 2005BDA GOLDKids' WB! Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh Island bumpers
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  16. 2005PROMAX SILVERThe Batman “Batbot”
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  17. 2003PROMAX SILVERKids' WB! Top Toons Tune “The Mummy”
    Creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  18. 2003BDA SILVERKids' WB! 2002 bumpers
    Creative & technical direction, animation, compositing, design
  19. 2002PROMAX GOLDBuild A Bot Week 3 teaser
    Creative direction, animation, compositing
  20. 2002BDA SILVERToonami: Kids' WB! campaign
    Conceptualization, creative & technical direction, design, animation, compositing
  21. 2001PROMAX GOLDUpfront “4 to 1 Revised”
    Creative direction
  22. 2001PROMAX GOLDFraturday launch campaign
    Creative direction
  23. 1999BDA SILVERKids' WB! Batman Beyond tease
    Design, animation, compositing
  24. 1991BDA GOLDKCET “Kid's Zone” open
    Animation, compositing
Brian Oliver, director of Xandad LLC
07 — ABOUT

Brian Oliver

I've been animating with computers since 1979 and working in Los Angeles television since 1989. I freelanced at The WB Television Network from its first year, animated the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer logo, and spent 25 years there and at The CW Television Network — 10 years as Director of Animation writing, directing and animating the WB Television Network's Saturday morning Kids' WB promos, then 15 years producing iconic promos for the CW Television Network, the last 2 as Executive Director of the Graphics Department, overseeing project management and asset tracking across tens of thousands of deliveries. That work earned 24 PROMAX and BDA awards, 17 of them Gold.

Before television, I was building trial animation: around 1990 I animated chip-layout comparisons for a landmark semiconductor case delivering a $25 Million verdict, a 3D reconstruction of a fatal interstate truck crash, and a surgical-mesh hernia repair. Along the way came digital restoration of Cinderella, Pinocchio and Bambi for Disney, VFX for music videos and content for video games.

These days I work remotely from Santa Clarita, CA. I have a network of very talented friends that I can call upon for projects as well. They are some of the best designers and animators out there. Xandad LLC is a boutique studio with a network-sized résumé: Maya, Unreal Engine, Cinema 4D, Blender, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and Premiere, plus on-set VFX supervision and design for 3D printing and fabrication.

CREDITS INCLUDE17 Gold and 7 Silver BDA & PROMAX Awards10 Years as Director of Animation writing, directing, and animating Saturday Morning Kids' WB promos15 years producing iconic promos for CW Television Network. 2 years as Executive Director of the Graphics Department, leading project management and asset tracking across departmentsThree Decades of Broadcast Television Motion Graphic Design and AnimationDigital Restoration on Disney's Cinderella, Pinocchio, and Bambi films$25 Million Verdict in one Landmark IP case
08 — CONTACT

Tell me about the project

Project details are kept confidential. I'll reply within one business day.

Santa Clarita, CA · working remotely nationwide

Call or email

Email brian@XandadLLC.comCall 661-313-1586

Helpful to include: what you need, your deadline or trial date, and the best way to reach you. Details stay confidential.