Michelle Higa Fox

Leading BUCK's Applied Research Group, our dedicated R&D team. ARG serves as connective tissue for our artists innovating in every department. We evaluate new tools, share knowledge, and build confidence in applying emerging technology to craft.

Founder of an NYC-Certified M/WBE studio specializing in combining hand-crafted animation with emerging technology. Building and directing teams of animators, designers, and developers across broadcast, brand, and experiential work. Clients include Google, Netflix, The Atlantic, Vox, Adult Swim, Coach, and Nike.

Hands-on creative and technical direction for studios, production companies, and agencies. Specialties include animation and compositing for green-screen, puppetry, and stop-motion; pipeline design for complex 2.5D mixed-media; and interactive and real-time workflows. Clients include: Boss Creative, Brand New School, FCB New York, Hornet, Loyalkaspar, Nick Jr., Pentagram, PepRally, Psyop, Stardust Studios, The Mill, The Science Project, The Ebeling Group, Trollbäck+Company Work created for: AT&T, Verizon, Google, Salesforce, Comedy Central, GE, Walmart, ESPN, cBBC, Food Network, MTV, Nintendo, Charles Schwab, Nike, H&M, Havaianas, Kellogg's, Fanta, McDonald's, Burger King, Hannaford, Presidentti, Avon, L'Occitane

Co-led BUCK's Experience offering, building the vision, the business, and the team behind our interactive, real-time, and in-product work, from shipped projects to early-stage visioning for tech partners. If a project was weird-shaped, it came to us.

Voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences / Primetime Emmy Awards in the Motion & Title Design Peer Group.

Creative direction for animation and emerging technology projects at BUCK. Assessed feasibility on incoming calls and shaped pitches, then guided teams from concept through craft execution.

Creative Director of Vox Media’s explainer series hosted by Cleo Abram, helping curious people better understand a complex world, delivering daily on Quibi. Created a bespoke animation pipeline, cross-department workflows, and recruited/led a team of 10+ all-star animators to deliver 131 daily 5-minute episodes - all produced totally remote during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. In total, our team produced 13+ hours of content, 3+ hours of which were original motion graphics. Consistently performed in the top of our platform and hit #7 on YouTube trending w/ over a million views in under 17 hours.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj explores the modern cultural and political landscape with depth and sincerity. Over its six season run, this weekly series on Netflix won a Peabody Award, two Webby Awards and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design.

Worked with an all-star team to concept, design, and execute 100+ deliverables across 20+ media surfaces for a Fortune 10 client's Executive Briefing Center.

With over 40,000 visits a day from around the world, Motionographer is the leading source of inspiration and news for motion design, animation and filmmaking. As Editor, interviewed filmmakers in long-form pieces and curated short films, commercial work, music videos, student work and industry news.

Projects include music videos for Pains of Being Pure at Heart's "Say No to Love", Passion Pit's "To Kingdom Come", My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt. 2", Yeasayer's "Wait For The Summer", TV on the Radio's "Me-I", and J Dilla's "Nothing Like This".

Commercial representation in the US as part of the Mixtape Club directing team. Clients include Showtime Networks, Nike, Nick Jr., Starbucks, and Google's first ever advertising campaign.