Selected Work / Baba Blast
Baba Blast
Bringing imaginative children’s worlds to life through live-action production, animation, visual effects, photography, and post-production.
Children’s Entertainment · Video Production · Photography · Animation · VFX · Post-Production
Creating the world of Baba Blast
Baba Blast is a children’s entertainment project built around teaching kids resilience through learning, imagination, and larger-than-life adventures.
My work has spanned the entire creative production process—from filming and photography to editing, visual effects, animation, motion graphics, sound design, thumbnails, promotional content, and final delivery. Over the course of the project, I’ve produced more than 100 educational videos and 12 original music videos, helping create a growing visual world around the Baba Blast character.
The Project In Numbers
A long-running creative collaboration built across video, photography, animation, design, and digital content.
Educational Videos
Original Music Videos
YouTube Subscribers
YouTube Views
Selected Work
A Different Point of View
I wanted to create an adventure that felt less like watching a traditional kids video and more like going along for the ride. The concept was to mount a 360° camera as Kyle rode a train through a local park, capturing the entire environment around him rather than committing to individual camera angles during production.
That freedom became part of the creative process in post. I could choose and animate the camera perspective after filming, then transform an ordinary train ride into an increasingly unexpected adventure—complete with thunderstorms, goblin attacks, dinosaur encounters, and other surprises composited into the real environment.
The result combined practical location production, 360° video, visual effects, compositing, sound, and traditional editing to create an experience that felt grounded in the real world while continually pushing into the imagination. The video has since reached more than 5.2 million views on YouTube.
Learning Beyond the Studio
Some of our adventures took Baba Blast beyond the studio and into the community. We collaborated with local organizations including the Phoenix Zoo, Musical Instrument Museum, and Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting to create videos that combined education, entertainment, and exploration.
Each collaboration was designed to introduce kids to something new while also giving the organization an engaging way to share its exhibits, experiences, and mission with a young audience.
Behind the Production
Many of the finished videos begin with a performer, a green screen, and an idea. From there, live-action footage is combined with environments, animation, visual effects, compositing, and other digital techniques to build the finished world around the performance.
Each project presents a different creative problem, which has pushed me to continually develop new techniques and workflows rather than relying on a single production approach.
Beyond The Video
As the visual scope of the project expanded, I began incorporating 3D environments, animation, visual effects, and emerging generative tools alongside traditional production techniques. The goal was never to use technology simply because it was new—it was to find practical ways to create scenes and ideas that would otherwise be difficult or impossible within the project’s production constraints.
Legend of the Lost Golden Egg
Building New Worlds
The work extended beyond individual videos into the larger visual presence of the project, including YouTube thumbnails, promotional photography, product content, and social media assets.
Collecting the Adventure
Trading cards became a recurring reward throughout Baba Blast’s dinosaur and animal adventures. After learning about a new dinosaur or animal, Baba could earn its card—turning each educational segment into something to discover and collect along the way.
I designed the cards and their visual assets, then brought them into the episodes through animation and motion graphics. As the adventure progressed, the collection grew, giving kids a simple visual way to follow what they had learned and see what they had collected by the end of the episode.
Building a World Kids Can Join
One of the most distinctive parts of Baba Blast was the Blaster—a magic wand that accompanied Baba on his adventures. What began as a simple prop gradually developed into a character of its own. In post-production, I helped bring the Blaster to life through animated expressions, reactions, and sound effects, allowing it to respond to Baba and become part of the story.
The idea eventually extended beyond the screen. The Blaster became a plush toy, and episodes began inviting kids to use their own Blaster alongside Baba—turning moments in the show into opportunities to participate rather than simply watch.
As the project grew, so did the world around Baba and the Blaster, with new characters, environments, and adventures expanding the show into a larger imaginative universe.
Photography
Photography became another part of the visual world surrounding the videos, supporting promotional content, thumbnails, products, and the broader Baba Blast brand.
My Role
My role evolved alongside the project. What began as traditional video production grew to include photography, animation, visual effects, compositing, 3D environments, design, and new creative technologies. I worked across the process from production through final delivery, continually developing new workflows to turn increasingly ambitious ideas into finished work.
Creative Production · Videography · Photography · Editing · Color Grading · Audio · Animation · Visual Effects · Compositing · Motion Graphics · 3D Environments · YouTube Thumbnails · Promotional Content · Social Media Content