Film · Directed, drawn and edited by Tree

Stories in motion.Made by hand.

Music videos, commercials and animated films. Shot on camera, drawn by hand, or both, and art directed by one artist from first sketch to final cut.

Live action

Camera & crew

Filmed on location with cameras and crew, then edited in-house.

AI-directed

Drawn, then developed

Characters and scenes drawn first, then developed into motion with AI tools under full art direction. For tightly scoped films.

from $10,000
Hybrid

Hand & machine

Hand-drawn characters and key scenes, with AI-assisted motion only where it serves the shot.

from $50,000
Hand-drawn

Every frame by hand

Every frame drawn by hand, often with a team. Priced by scope.

  1. 01

    WINDOWS

    • Live action
    • Music video
    • 3:19

    Shot on RED cameras in Los Angeles, Detroit and Inkster, Michigan. Edited entirely by Tree.

  2. 02

    Colonial Life

    • Live action
    • Commercial

    Directed, shot and edited by Tree.

    For Colonial Life

  3. 03

    YAHWEH

    • AI-directed
    • Music video
    • 3:21

    Hand-drawn characters and scenes, developed into a 3D look with Higgsfield tools, including Nano Banana Pro.

  4. 04

    YAHWEH (2D)

    • Hybrid
    • Music video
    • 1:12

    Characters drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Some scenes animated by hand, others moved with Seedance 2.0, over hand-drawn and AI-generated backgrounds.

  5. 05

    WORLD GO ROUND

    • Hybrid
    • Music video
    • 1:07

    The first chapter of The Other Side of Paradise. Hand-drawn foundations, traditional 2D principles and AI-assisted motion.

  6. Coming soon
    06

    RELY ON

    • Hybrid
    • Music video
    • 0:52

    Vector characters and backgrounds mixed with raster art and select AI-generated backgrounds. Motion by Seedance 2.0.

  7. 07

    I Tested Higgsfield's Cinema Studio 2.0

    • AI-directed
    • Process film
    • 7:54

    What AI-assisted production looks like in practice, including a one-minute music video test.

    Commissioned by Higgsfield

Working together

Every film is quoted,never guessed.

Discovery, story, characters, shots, dialogue, sound, revisions and schedule all shape a film. Prices are starting points, never flat rates. Every project is scoped and quoted as a fixed fee before production begins.

  1. ConsultationA paid call to talk through your song or story, timeline and budget.
  2. World ConceptStory, characters, visual direction and key frames, with a short sample storyboard. Priced by scope.
  3. Pre-productionThe complete storyboard, animatic and production plan.
  4. ProductionAnimation, compositing, editing and sound.
  5. DeliveryRevisions, the master film and social versions.

Previous roles at Walt Disney Consumer Products, Sony Pictures and Drissi Advertising.
Custom work worn by Affion Crockett for the BET Hip Hop Awards and Mirror II Society.

Book a consultationEvery project starts with a paid consultation. Your fee is credited to the project if it starts within 30 days.