In October of 2020 food blogger Jeff Blake and his half-brother Andy Baker hit the road on a food tour that had the potential to change their lives. They were never seen again. This is their footage...

The most important things in life can be the hardest to find.

Small business owners in a small New Jersey beach town reflect on their past, from hurricanes to terrorist attacks, and how that prepared them for a worldwide pandemic where each day brought new limitations, challenges, and (at times) opportunities.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder

An empty room. Rusty Wood enters, alone.
Finds a throne, makes himself at home.
Knock, knock, who’s there?
Will the intruder challenge him for his chair?

“Mammoth: Primal Thirst” is a 3D animated surreal fantasy that follows Mammoth the Sunflower lost deep in the desert and searching for anyway to quench his thirst.

My name is Matt Check, and I’ve been an artist and a musician the majority of my life. “Mammoth” first manifested in my imagination during the Summer of 2017 a few months after my Dad died. I was faced with the crossroads of whether or not to tend to the garden he would always grow each year. Looking for hope, I decided to rise to the task. By the time late July came, many of the Mammoth Sunflowers I planted looked so tall and strong; it looked as if they were going to pull themselves out of the ground and run off! Thus Mammoth was born into my life.

This project has allowed me to create a synergy between my music and my animation, a dream I’ve been following for a while now. This story explores depression and happiness. Mammoth is deprived of what he needs to maintain a healthy life, and progressively gets weaker and more desperate to survive. It is only when we have access to what we need to survive that we flourish and live happier, healthier lives. To me Mammoth represents Hope. My hope is that all that watch this animated short will root for him!

This animated short was made for my Senior Capstone Animation class at Bloomfield College in NJ from May 2019 - May 2020.

Based on an actual dating profile business, "LoveLetters Profiles" is a TV comedy based on true stories. The pilot episode, "The Catholic Cougar," follows the twist and turns of a first date that goes sideways based on a misunderstanding on what "transitions" means to each party.

“Cosmic Cooking” is an animated meditation on the prevalent “cosmic egg” or “world egg” motif in creation mythology.

Lucifer, Satan, and the Devil meet with a corporate PR agent to rehabilitate their images — which includes reminding the world that they're women. However, they quickly discover that the PR agent is more evil than they are.