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Hello Jeff Ellis

Visual storytelling has been Jeff’s passion since childhood. Now that he’s all grown up, Jeff is seeking gainful employment in creating comics, illustration and motion graphics.

Happily, he brings to the table—or rather screen—more than ten years of experience in project management, print production, publishing and administration.

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Motion graphic sample from Melody, a fictitious music sharing app. (The complete case study is available here.

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Three illustrated advertisements.

Transit ads for the music app Melody that encourage users to upgrade to the paid account.

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Process sketches and final artwork for T-shirt design for dodgeball team.

Dodgeball team mascot and jersey for software maker Clio, which provided the team name and commissioned the project.

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Samples of printed comic artwork depicting the last night at a Vancouver rock venue.

Selected pages from a slice-of-life story in Swan Song, an anthology published by Cloudscape Comics.

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Animated genre map from The Indie Pull Box, an online comic storefront promoting small press comics.

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Samples of printed comic artwork depicting a story set in 1920’s Vancouver.

Spreads from a story in the self-published anthology Waterlogged that tells of young men rafting down the Fraser River in the 1920s.

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Samples of printed comic artwork depicting a horror comic set in Japanese internment camp.

Writing and Illustration for short story “Fu-go” for the horror anthology Bones of the Coast, published by Cloudscape Comics. The story is set in a Japanese internment camp in BC.

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Magazine spread depicting famous horror movie characters.

Magazine spread that showcases illustrations of famous horror movies, developed for multiple editions of the Drawlloween art challenge.

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