COMMERCIAL / CLIENT WORK
Motion Designer & Animator / Various Clients / 2023–2025
–2025 Coach x WNBA Teaser — Motion Design & Animator
–2025 Meta — Motion Design & Animation for “Leave Your Mark”
–2024 Champion — Animation Manager & Motion Design “No Permission”
– 2024 Coldplay — Animation for official music video “WE PRAY”
–2024 MZ Wallace — Directed full animation campaign for the Metro Tote Bag
–2025-2026 Whitney Museum of American Art — Animation for Marina Zurkow’s “The River is a Circle” currently exhibiting through January 2026
–2025 Headway App — Animated multiple UI backgrounds for their new campaign
–2025 Humans Of New York —Assistant Editor on Dear New York Campaign at Grand Central Terminal
–2024-2026 McCann WorldWide — Assistant Editor on various commercials for brands like Starbucks, Tj Maxx, Master Card etc.
FULL TIME POSITIONS
CEO / Backwards Studio / Brooklyn, NY /2024- present
- Lead creative direction and production for mixed-media films, motion design, and animation projects, overseeing concept development, miniature builds, cinematography, and post-production.
- Manage client relationships and deliver high-end work for brands including Coach, Coldplay, Yo-Yo Ma, Headway, and MZ Wallace, guiding projects from pitch to final delivery across commercial, music, and narrative formats.
- Run all studio operations—hiring collaborators, budgeting, scheduling, and supervising multidisciplinary teams—while maintaining a distinct handcrafted aesthetic and consistent visual quality across projects.
Cinematographer, Editor, and Producer / BBC World News / Financial District, NY / 2021 – 2024
- Part of a small team that films, edits, and assembles shows for Talking Movies on BBC News
- Help produce, edit, and film New York based stories for other BBC shows, web series, and radio programs
- Provide media management and news research for reporter Tom Brook
Animation Specialist / Marina Zurkow / New York, NY / 2018-present
- Spent over 1000 hours animating for Marina Zurkow’s show Wet Logic (2020) at Bitforms Gallery, Oceans Like Us (2021) at 150 Media Stream, Hudson Follies (2022) at Pier 57 Google, and The River Is A Circle (2025-2026) at The Whitney Museum of Art
- Worked under director Marina Zurkow researching and providing detailed analyses of footage for animations
- Organized videos and files for ease of animation process
- Rotoscoped and looped footage for each animation
SELECTED WORKS
- Celebrating our Shared Humanity A short animated film featuring narration by Yo-Yo Ma (2025)
- Director, Cinematographer, Animator, Producer, and Editor of a 4 and a half minute stop-motion film
- Premiered at Boston Symphony Hall before his final performance on a 6 year tour across 6 continents
- 2D Animator
- Vimeo Staff Pick and Vimeo Best of the Year Staff Pick
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult - A Daisy Chain For Satan (2024)
- Director, Editor, and Animator
- Part of The Flux Festival at the Hammer Museum (Fall 2024)
SKILLS
- Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Dragonframe, Final Cut Pro, Airtable, Pitch, FIgma, and Microsoft Suite
WEBSITE
ewans.world
INSTAGRAM
@ewanilose