I created the below trailer while at Sony Podcasts for the second season of "Chameleon," named Vulture's #2 True Crime Podcast of 2023. I was given 14 minutes of audio and a $500 stock budget (which is very little compared other video projects of this scale) to create a one-minute animated trailer that the client wanted to "resemble Oceans Eleven". In addition to creating a script and editing the audio myself in Premiere Pro, nearly every static and animated element was created by hand. I created the Las Vegas strip blinking neon signs in Adobe Illustrator, and in Photoshop I designed every map, government form, and scrap paper seen on the crime board. I also used Cinema 4D to animate the end card from the original layered podcast cover art, using a camera to zoom through a 3D space and used a combination of Cinema 4D and Red Giant trap code for the dollar bills blowing across the screen. From start to finish I created this trailer in 3 weeks, and it remains of my favorite videos I've ever created.

Show Description: Journalist Trevor Aaronson investigates the stranger-than-fiction tale of what happens when a check-kiting informant, an FBI undercover agent, and a group of Las Vegas businesspeople all pretend to be something they're not – money launderers. Aaronson digs into the case and more than 20 hours of FBI recordings, taking listeners into a sordid, neon-lit world of diet clinics, fitness models, high-end restaurants, strip clubs, lascivious men, arms dealers, secret scams, and lawsuits. How do you separate the good guys from the bad when no one is who they appear to be?

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