Chameleon: Wild Boys
Winner of the Ambies Awards: Best Podcast of the Year 2023 and featured in the #2 spot for Vulture’s Best True Crime Podcasts of 2022
In the summer of 2003 two young boys emerge from the British Columbia wilderness telling an incredible story. They claim is this their first contact with society, and a small Canadan town rallies together to house and support them. But the boys have a secret that 20 years later host Sam Mullins seeks to uncover.
For this project, I designed the show artwork including the type and branding that was used for all resoidual art to support the show. In addition, I edited, animated, and cut the trailer from tens of hours of drone footage of the B.C. wilderness and stock video from Shutterstock. I also created one minute video loops from the drone footage that were used to create cinemagraphs.
Cover Artwork
Animated Show Trailer
Key Moments:
Audiograms
For each podcast I create 3-4 looping 60-second clips to be used in the background of audiograms. The audiograms are released weekly, recapping the episode or teasing the next one. Each audiogram features a soundbite from the episode accompanied by hand-animated closed captions and an animated audio waveform that is synced to the audio clip. The audiograms perform best on Twitter but are also used on Instagram feed, reels, and on TikTok.
More from Chameleon
Chameleon is currently on its 7th season. Here are some of my other creative contributions I’ve made over the previous seasons.
I worked on Season 2 of Chameleon – creating a one-minute animated trailer and 3 cutdowns to promote the new season. I was given a zero dollar budget and some grainy security footage to create a trailer that the client wanted to feel like “Oceans 11”. The final trailer was one of the first motion design projects I led at Sony, and it’s one of the projects I am most proud of. Watch the Trailer
I created the cover art for the 6th season of Chameleon: Gallery of Lies which tells the story of a German scam artist in the high-end world of art collection. I created this cover in Photoshop – creating the man himself by composting serval images to have his hands holding money behind his back. I also created the artwork featured on the cover by seamlessly collaging four different images together to create a piece of modern art which subtly features key themes from the story.
For Chameleon’s first season, I created social assets, banners, animated one-minute looping cinemagraphs, and audiograms used to promote the show. Watch the original Cinemagraph