BIOGRAPHY
HELLO
After stints in the Chicago suburbs (childhood), Iowa City (university), Chicago and Portland, Oregon (adulthood), Pete currently resides in Los Angeles, which he considers a phenomenal city and his home.
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His interests include film (making and watching), sketching, literature, art, animation, and travel.
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ON EDITING:
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Editing was something I fell into, but quickly grew to enjoy. I take pride in having a good eye along with possessing a natural understanding of pacing, character and story.
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The first thing I ever cut that went out was a brief montage for the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency Christmas Special (season 2) while working as a PA before moving on to Gametrailers TV, a videogame magazine-style show as assistant editor and eventually full editor.
After spending a few years freelancing, I landed a position as the in-house editor for Field Recordings, notable director Lance Bangs's production studio in Oregon. After working for three years on numerous projects with Lance, including various pilots and series for the launch of Viceland, I returned to Los Angeles because, frankly, I prefer the weather.
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PARTY LEGENDS
I consider Party Legends one of my proudest professional accomplishments.
Around March of 2015, we began work on the pilot for the show to launch with Viceland. I was long a fan of animation but had never dreamed that I would be working on an animated show. Together with showrunner Lance Bangs and a small crew, we developed a pilot based on a few test interviews and spec animation, which led to a greenlight.
We partnered with Starburns Industries (Rick & Morty), led by producer Casey Rup, to source individual animators for each of the segments, the idea being to give each story a unique look and feel.
Season 1 had a pool of around 60 interviews of notable celebrities to pull from, which we boiled down to around 32 segments over 6 episodes.
As Co-Producer, my duties included editing and finessing the interviews to time, along with blocking out animation direction and timing. Our budget allowed for 15 minutes of animation per 22:30 episode, so all live-action versus animation had to be approved before being sent to the artists.
I wrote the majority of animation direction for each segment, taking care to leave it specific for the story needs but general enough to allow the artists creative freedom.
There were many hurdles along the way, including an uncertain show clock, issues with international regulations for strobing images and demands for creative control from certain interview subjects. Our team rose to the challenge and was able to deliver a solid show, debuting summer 2016 and picked up for a second (and final) season that debuted summer 2017.
Party Legends never set the world on fire in terms of ratings or popularity, but certain segments captured a viral audience. Most well-known is probably the Kanye vs. Drake Basketball story told by Ninja of Die Antwoord.
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I spent over two years working on it and I'm incredibly proud that it exists in the world, that all the hard work of everyone involved came through on a bizarre, arty, lil storytelling show.
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Plus, my voice is in a couple episodes, how cool is that?
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You can watch it on Hulu!