About
Todd Sines
Todd Sines is an autodidact director, creative director, and maker, immersed in the art & science of brand DNA, experience, and engagement, through conceptual thinking and multi-channel delivery with impactful execution.
Over the last 30 years, Todd has led award-winning creative, production, and post for multinational campaigns & projects, commercials, social media, branding, mobile, digital, film & television, experiential and art installations.
Experience
Lead strategy and creative direction for all projects; directing, art direction, design, typography, editorial, motion design, VFX, animation, compositing, sound design, and music composition. Built and managed a team of external and in-house art directors, writers, animators, compositors to realize concepts; supervised production crews for extensive video campaigns. Clients: Nokia, HBO, Lacoste, NBC Comcast, Nine West, Nicole Miller, Stoli, MTV, A&E, Sennheiser, Manfrotto/ALU, RSA Films, Apple, Burton, Limited, Victoria’s Secret, GE, Mtn Dew, Hennessy, Monster.com, Sloan Pharmaceuticals, Sisley, Tsvetnoy, V Magazine, Intel, DefJam, Electronic Arts, inventiv, Cialis, Olive Garden, Diesel, Diane von Furstenberg, Empowered by You, StyleSaint.
Instructed Sophomores and Juniors techniques in digital storytelling via 2D + 3D digital compositing and prototyping to undergraduate classes using Nuke, Resolve, Maya, After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Sketch.
Creative direction, design, editorial, post-production, and site UI/UX/Dev for 1FUTURE, a creative studio for social justice and change. Short-form storytelling of South African apartheid victims, Hiroshima bombing survivors, creative disruptors, and social justice leaders in arts and media. Branding and identity, digital and print campaigns, video content, site design + development, event outreach.
Creative direction: branding & identity, mobile app & portal UI/UX, marketing, pitch decks, video content production and direction for grant applications, yielding $2.4M in funding.
Creative direction: branding & identity, mobile app & portal UI/UX, marketing, pitch decks, video content.
Creative direction: video content and production for Sisley, Tsvetnoy, CR Fashion Book, V Magazine, V Man.
Creative direction and production: print, film, and television for Sin City, Cold Mountain, Pokémon, Transamerica, The Matador, Hannibal Rising, Finding Neverland, Miss Potter, Proof, The Great Raid.
Art direction for Spike Jonze’s Directors Label series; advertising for Palm Pictures and RES magazine.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1996, MFA continuing studies 1997–1999
Course studies in architecture, art, design, philosophy, photography, sound synthesis.
Graduate-level studies in procedural 3D animation and visual effects.
Skills
- Operational
- Brand strategy, creative brainstorming, conceptual, collaboration, organization, research & development, trends, lifestyle, culture, RFP/RFQ/briefs, budgeting, pitches & presentations, written and spoken communication, constructive feedback, client experience, project troubleshooting.
- Disciplines
- Film/digital cinema, broadcast television, commercials, mobile, advertising, 360° digital, interface design, print, email campaigns, in-store display, projection mapping, social media platforms.
- Software
- Mastery of Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere; Nuke, Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, DaVinci Resolve, RealFlow, Mocha, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Avid Pro Tools, Figma, Sketch, Microsoft Office, Google Workplace, Midjourney. Platforms: Facebook, WordPress, Editor X, Squarespace, Vimeo, YouTube, Wix. Code: CSS, HTML, PHP + Java/JavaScript. Proficient on Mac, Windows, Linux.
- Film production
- Arri, RED, Blackmagic, Canon, Nikon, Sony, DJI digital cameras. Own, operate, and have full working knowledge of Arri Alexa, Blackmagic 6K, Canon 5D MkIV digital and Moviecam SL, Arri IIC 35mm film cameras. Zeiss T2 Standard Speed, Zeiss Super Speed, Contax, Canon prime lenses, DJI Inspire 2 + Matrice 600 drones, Ronin gimbals and wireless follow focus systems; O’Connor fluid heads, Libec jib, Dana Dolly, Matthews Doorway Dolly, Arri HMI, Aputure LED lighting, rigging.
- Audio
- Mixing consoles, digital and analogue audio, reel to reel tape machines, modular, analogue and digital synthesizers, guitar, bass, drums, keys, outboard effects; plus repair, assembly, and design.
Artist CV
Screenings
- Interval — Film + live soundtrack performance, Cutlog Art Fair, Clemente Soto Vélez, New York, 05.2014
- Turf presents, Cutlog Art Fair, Clemente Soto Vélez, New York, 04.2013
- Apocalyptic Shift, Eyebeam, New York, 04.2012
Awards + Nominations
- 2010 The Kids Are All Right — Oscar nomination, Best Picture. Dir. Lisa Cholodenko; VFX Supervisor Todd Sines
- 2010 Between the Folds — Peabody Award, Independent Lens. Dir. Vanessa Gould; Art Director Todd Sines
- The One Show Gold Pencil, Communicating Arts — Interactive awards
- Columbus Society of Communicating Arts — Awards of Distinction and Merit, 1995–1999
Publications + Appearances
- 2015 Subotnick — Director Robert Fantinatto; producer, co-direction, cinematography
- 2015 The Underground is Massive — Author Michaelangelo Matos; photography and story contributions
- 2014 I Dream of Wires — Director Robert Fantinatto; producer and story contributions
- 2012 Source of Uncertainty / River to River, Clocktower Gallery, Morton Subotnick; co-direction, film
- 1999 Techno Rebels — Author Dan Sicko; story contribution
Performances
- Performed, curated, and organized* over 500 dates in London, Berlin, Köln, Düsseldorf, Munich, Reykjavik, Vienna, Geneva, Basel, Zürich, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona, Lloret de Mar, Milan, Moscow, Malta, Tokyo, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, Boston.
- Aoyama Zero, Zero Project: Tokyo + Hiroshima, Japan, 11.2019
- The End IV w Suzanne Ciani, Cyrnai, Interval, Artefactos de Dolor: Detroit + Brooklyn, 05.2019 *
- Crystal Cave, Soft Leather w Hiroko Yamamura, Rec Center w Bana Haffar, Los Angeles, 01.2019
- WWW w Suzanne Ciani, Richard Devine: Tokyo, 11.2018
- The End III w Cindytalk, Das Ding, Eric Random: Detroit + Brooklyn, 05.2018 *
- HELIC.AL presents: Interval, Artefactos de Dolor, San Francisco + Los Angeles, 01.2018 *
- Synthposium — HELIC.AL night: Todd Sines, Artefactos de Dolor, Interval: Vinzavod, Moscow, 09.2017 *
- The End II w John Bender, Richard Fearless, Dabrye (Tadd Mullinix): Detroit, 05.2017 *
- The End I w Black Rain: Detroit, 05.2016 *
- Globus live w Mike Servito, Marcelus, Marc Schneider, Tresor, Berlin, 06.2016
- ele_mental 20th anniversary, Output + Kobo Clubs, Brooklyn + Columbus, 05.2013 *
- PS1 MoMA / Warm Up, Long Island City, 07.2004
- Creative Time, live w Natacha Labelle, Brooklyn, 10.2002
- Fuse-In: Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Detroit, 05.2002
- Score to Tod Browning’s The Unknown, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 01.2001
- Side FX showcase at SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, 08.2000
- ele_mental showcase, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 03.2000
* curated and organized
Select clients
- A&E
- American Airlines
- Apple
- Atsuko Sano
- Bank of America
- Burton
- Cialis
- Clos Du Bois
- Comcast
- Crum + Forster Insurance
- DanniJo
- David Yurman
- DefJam
- Diesel
- Donna Karan
- Diane Von Furstenberg
- Electronic Arts
- Express
- Focus Features
- GE
- HBO
- Hennessy
- History Channel
- International Rescue
- iRobot · Roomba
- Lacoste
- Moët · Chandon
- Molson
- Mtn Dew
- NBC Universal
- NHK Japan
- Nicole Miller
- Nine West
- Nokia
- Olay
- Olive Garden
- Palm Pictures
- Paramount
- 3.1 Phillip Lim
- Redken
- Revlon
- Rolling Stone
- Sennheiser
- Sisley
- Spin Magazine
- Stoli
- StyleSaint
- The New Press
- Tessabit
- Tumi
- Visionaire · V · V Man
- VH1
- Vera Wang
- Winter JazzFest