Recent motion design projects
- Demo reel 2011.2
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Video game Motion designer / animator
- Vancouver Canucks Event Motion designer
- H+ The Digital Series Web series Motion designer / VFX artist
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Web series Animator
- Home Wreckers Television series titles Motion designer
- Endgame Television series titles Motion designer
- Red Riding Hood: The Tale Begins Animated / live-action featurette Motion designer / animator
- Playing God With Planet Earth Documentary Motion designer / animator
- Inception: The Cobol Job Animated featurette Motion designer / animator
- Call Me Mrs. Miracle Movie titles Motion designer
- The Haunting Hour Television series titles Motion designer / compositor
- Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo Animated series Motion designer / animator
Recent interactive projects
- What's New On Netflix Website / application Sole designer / developer
- The Sequence Group Website Designer / developer
- Storylab Interactive fiction engine Lead designer / developer
About
Aaron Scott Hildebrandt is a (Gemini-nominated!) motion, narrative, and interactive designer in Vancouver, Canada.
You can contact Aaron at aaron@andno spam, pleasecuriouser.com.
Demo reel
Music: “Container Park” by The Chemical Brothers (from the “Hanna” soundtrack)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Created in celebration of the 10th anniversary of one of the most beloved franchises in gaming history, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a spectacularly re-mastered version of the original Halo campaign. Bundled with seven of the most popular multiplayer maps in Halo history ready for Xbox LIVE, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will include a bounty of new features including cooperative play over Xbox LIVE, achievements, new challenges, and new fiction to uncover.
What's New On Netflix
What’s New On Netflix is the largest unofficial Netflix website in Canada, and the sole source of new release information online. It started as a weekend Google Apps experiment and quickly grew into a large community with many dedicated users.
The website also has a companion tablet application, though it has yet to be released.
Vancouver Canucks
Motion design for 2011 NHL game openings for the Vancouver Canucks, including large water simulations projected onto the ice.
The Sequence Group
Website for Vancouver-based studio The Sequence Group.
Storylab
Storylab is a Python-based interactive fiction engine with a focus on immersion and accessibility. A single server is capable of delivering games to multiple front-ends, including Flash, JavaScript, HTML, and terminal clients. The engine also supports both text-to-speech and speech-to-text, allowing games to be played by the blind.
Unlike traditional IF engines, Storylab supports sound playback, music, and animation (Flash client required for animation), making it one of the most robust interactive fiction engines in existence.
The engine was used for one commercial project, an educational adventure game commissioned by Aboriginal Languages Manitoba.
H+ The Digital Series
A future-set story in which a virus has wiped out most of the human race, and those still alive have their minds linked to the Internet 24 hours a day. Here, a viral incident leads to a new world order.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Mortal Kombat: Legacy brings to life the complex and rich history of the gaming world of MORTAL KOMBAT. Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung are obsessed with reigning over various realms (parallel universes) and the winners of Mortal Kombat competitions are granted supreme control over these worlds. The Earthrealm (Earth) is an unconscious participant in this competition and only a few select humans understand the consequences of losing Mortal Kombat and what it will mean to Earth. In a universe with powerful evil sorcerers, cyborgs, Gods and movie stars, this Mortal Kombat digital media series drives a cohesive understanding of what this Universe is all about.
Home Wreckers
Contractor, plumber, and mother of two Kristi Hansen brings her passion for taking care of homes to W Network in the new series Homewreckers. In each episode, Kristi repairs and transforms a dilapidated family home that has suffered from years of neglect, and transforms the attitude of the homeowners along the way. As Kristi knows, home repairs take a back seat to a shiny new television, tropical getaways and kids’ activities – until it is too late.
Endgame
After witnessing the murder of his fiancée, former World Chess Champion Arkady Balagan develops a debilitating case of agoraphobia. Unable to leave his hotel and running out of money, the arrogant and charismatic Russian inadvertently becomes a detective – using his fierce analytical skills to solve baffling crimes.
Red Riding Hood: The Tale Begins
Peace has finally come to the village of Daggorhorn, but it has come at a price. In this tale, Valerie’s grandmother recounts the events that have resulted in the town leaving a sacrifice for a beast every harvest moon. Believe the legend. Beware the wolf.
Playing God With Planet Earth
Imagine a time in the not too distant future when scientists try to mimic the effects of a volcanic explosion in a desperate bid to reverse global warming. Consider a climate emergency so severe that engineers create a sulphuric sunscreen, hoping to stop the melting of polar ice, turn back the rising sea and prevent the horrific storms that would send environmental refugees running for their lives. Playing God With Planet Earth explores the last ditch efforts of scientists and engineers trying to avert a planetary meltdown.
Inception: The Cobol Job
Now in full animation and motion, check out this comic prologue to see how Cobb, Arthur, and Nash came to be enlisted by Cobol Engineering and perform an extraction on Saito.
Call Me Mrs. Miracle
No one celebrates the holidays like Emily Merkle (Doris Roberts) – or Mrs. Miracle as she is known by some – who is back to ensure that this Christmas is the most magical and meaningful of all. When Mrs. Miracle appears as a seasonal employee in the toy department at the financially troubled Finley’s Department Store, neither the store’s owners, nor the customers, have any idea of the events that are about to unfold. Also starring Jewel Staite, Eric Johnson and Lauren Holly.
The Haunting Hour
You can expect the unexpected in this eerie new series from R.L. Stine, the master of kid horror. Tune in for a new live-action story every week. And prepare yourself… for the thrill of the chill, nervous giggles, and the SCREAM you let out when someone — or something! — touches your shoulder on a dark and stormy night. Can you handle it? Can your parents?
Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo
Jonah Hex Motion Comics is an all-new collection of action-packed stories featuring DC Comics character Jonah Hex, the ruthless bounty hunter with a conscience, who inspired the theatrical film. Now three of his legendary stories have been brought to life, panel by panel, for the first time ever and told in seven extraordinary episodes.