OXEN - Key Persons


Celest Brown

Job Titles:
  • Lead Designer
Her design work is the beautiful foundation for print, animation and interactive projects. Celest's work as a color stylist can be see in NFB films and Warner Brothers feature animation. She specializes in botanically inspired design and drawing. Her surface design work is featured on housewares and textiles sold through retailers like Villeroy and Bosh, Bloomingdales, Laura Secord and Stonewall Kitchen.

Ian Godfrey

Job Titles:
  • Animation Lead
Artist. Poet. Craftsman. Ian is a second generation animation director with an eye for crisp motion and classic design. Over the past few decades he's directed a bunch of commercials and cranked out animated sequences for film and television. Ian takes inspiration from mid-century illustration styles and is a bit of a perfectionist. He also happens to compose music and builds high-end custom furniture.

Nathaniel Akin

Job Titles:
  • Director
An award winning director with work in film, television, print and online worlds. Nathaniel Akin has directed campaigns and created dynamic animation for clients including Bell, Nike, Kelloggs, Bank of America, Adidas, Walmart & IBM . He created the first interactive campaign to use YouTubes internal linking feature for Silk Soy Milk and excels at creating custom pipelines for animation in unique visual styles including 8-bit pixel, Collage, Ascii, infographic and typography.