Eric Pautz — Art Director

Eric Pautz is an Art Director based in Canada, featured in the Art of Styleframe library of motion design and visual design talent. This profile aggregates selected works documented in the gallery alongside attribution links back to the artist's own portfolio for verified context.

The work gathered here runs to 9 documented pieces, pulled from a wider portfolio that takes in Safegate, mtv Election, Honda Dreamer, Gilead, each one linking back to Eric's own site for full credits. Look for The Game That Never Was, Costa, Fix Florida, The Safegate Effect, MTV, Election, among others in the gallery; we link out to the maker's own upload instead of copying the frames here.

The deeper archive sits at ericpautz.com; what we maintain is a pointer to it, not a copy of it. Grouping Eric by Canada and by actual projects, not by buzzword, is the editorial habit this site has kept since the original gallery.

Eric Pautz is an Art Director based in Canada, featured in the Art of Styleframe library. The selections below link to the artist's own portfolio for verified work history and credits.

Portfolio highlights

Short spot for airport security company Safegate, developed through Upperfirst Credits: Art Direction, design · Directed by: Upperfirst · vimeo.c
mtv Election Short spot for MTV Brazil for the Brazilian national election, developed at Santa Transmedia — Credits: Art Direction, all design · Directed by: Santa Transmedia
Honda Dreamer TV Spot for Honda Civic, developed at Roof Studio — Credits: design · Directed by Vinicius Costa, Sam Mason, and Guto Terni · vimeo.com/150841578</
Short spot for Gilead about HIV Credits: Art Direction, all design. · Directed by Upperfirst · vimeo.com/154031152
Costa Fix Florida 'Fix Florida', for Costa Sunglasses. Done at Giant Ant. — Credits: Art Direction, design. · Directed by: Giant Ant · vimeo.com/175265555

A studio-hopping credit list

Read the credits above and a pattern shows up fast. Upperfirst, Santa Transmedia, Roof Studio, Giant Ant. Four different shops, four different house styles, and Pautz art-directing or designing inside each of them. That's the freelance art director's career in a nutshell: you don't get to bring your own look, you get to make theirs work under a deadline.

The current portfolio

His own site keeps nine pieces live. Costa, Fix Florida and MTV, Election carry through from the credits above, which is useful because the site pages hold the finished spots while the credit list holds the roles. The Safegate Effect is the airport security piece developed through Upperfirst.

Delta, Slow Down is the airline entry. The Game That Never Was reads as the odd one out until you notice how much of his work is narrative rather than product: a spot about an election, a spot about HIV, a spot about a game nobody made.

Then there are the quieter pieces. Cheval, Plunge, Losing Ground, and Motion Pictures sit on the site without brand names attached. Personal work? Probably, though the site doesn't spell it out, and guessing at a credit is how bad attribution starts. Worth clicking through either way, because the titles are short and the palettes aren't.