Our work navigates the boundless cosmos of design and animation.

We’re an interdisciplinary squad of playful oddballs and cat whisperers. Our tight-knit team brings big visions to life with technical prowess and creative flair. Tapping into our extended family of creatives, we approach each project, big or small, with a unique attention to detail.

Making compelling work is just as important as the relationships we build along the way. That’s why cultivating collaboration with our clients is key to our process.

Capabilities

Creative

Consultation
Concept development
Copywriting
Treatment
Storyboarding + animatics

Animation

Design
2D + 3D animation
VFX
Motion graphic packages
Motion design toolkits
(for use in After Effects)

Production

Budgeting
Location scout
Resourcing crew
Casting
Production management
Creative direction
Cinematography

Post-Production

Post-production supervision
Editorial
Voiceover recording
Sound design + sound mix
Composing
Color correction

ROVERS

Gabe Bornstein

Partner / Executive Producer

Gabe’s first ever job was working as a grom at his local surf shop at the age of 13 and was paid in surfboard wax. He inherited a love of film and image-making from his dad and never looked back.

After a stint working as a cinematographer at VICE under Spike Jonze’s creative department and for VICE On HBO, he went on to create films in the surf and outdoor industries across Hawaii and Australia (there was still surfboard wax involved but slightly less this time around). As a founding partner of ROVE, managing the big picture of the company while also making time to be involved with each of the projects is where he thrives.

Outside of work, Gabe is on the board of More Women Surf+, a non-profit dedicated to fostering an inclusive outdoor community in board sports, and is an advisor to Blueprint Surf Company, a 3D-printed surfboard manufacturer.

Jay Brown

Partner / Executive Creative Director

One part hip-hop nerd, one part sci-fi lover, a heavy dose of skateboarding, and a garnish of abstract animation, that’s how you concoct a Jay cocktail (make sure to get yourself a nice rocks glass, trust us).

Before co-founding ROVE and putting his creative stamp on work for clients like Spotify, Google, Toyota, Complex, and many more, Jay began his career creating branded content for the likes of Pernod Ricard and JEEP. He later discovered a love for mixed media which led to three years of traveling all over the United States directing psychedelic music videos and working with record labels like Mello Music Group, Stones Throw Records, Atlantic Records, and Virgin Records.

When he’s not doing nose manuals on his skateboard (Google it, it’s impressive), he can be found conjuring up conceptual, playful, and inventive work spanning the design, animation, and live-action landscapes.

Jared Flynn

Lead Animator / Post Supervisor

Who else do you know that has extensive 2D and 3D animation chops and is also a budding theremin musician? There can only be one and it’s Jared Flynn.

Cutting his teeth in the broadcast space for clients such as National Geographic, NOVA, and The History Channel, Jared began his career pushing keyframes around at an award-winning documentary house. From there, he moved on to running the animation capability at a large digital agency for clients like Welch’s and Harvard Business School.

You can now find Jared masterfully conducting keyframes at ROVE for all of our animated projects like the maestro he is, and lending his expertise every step of the way. He’s basically a superhero in human form.

Mari Ray

Motion Designer

Mari is a born and raised Cuban Puerto Rican, whose love for exploration extends from traversing the globe to infusing life into her vibrant 2D designs and animations.

With a BFA in Motion Media Design from SCAD fueling her ambition, Mari’s journey started in Atlanta, where she worked at a leading consulting firm, adding her creative touch to brands like Tapestry, Sysco, and John Deere, among a myriad of others. But that was just the beginning—Mari then took her keyframes and voyaged on to put her stamp on the work coming from a healthcare and wellness design studio in Chicago, for clients like Takeda and Meridian.

Mari’s desire to push the boundaries is expressed through constant exploration. She’s always finding new techniques and ways to deliver an idea or message. In her spare time, you can find her creating art, hanging out by the water, or skateboarding around with her dog and cat chasing close behind.

Devon LaBonte

Post Producer

Meet Devon, a New Hampshire native, former community theatre nerd turned Vermonter. She’s a spicy food fanatic, and finds solace in wintry wonderlands.

After a stint in Scotland where she received her Master’s Degree from the University of Edinburgh, she traded bagpipes for tapas and jet-setted off to Barcelona to teach English for a year. Devon’s journey led her to the concrete jungle of NYC where she spent two years working in the publishing industry. Her life took a wild turn into the realm of “virtual celebrities.” Yes, you read that right—Devon worked her way up from production coordinator to animation producer at an IP + Media startup, focusing on creating synthetic influencers and an animated music group. She fell in love with the animation process and developed an extensive set of skills managing post-production pipelines.

When Devon isn’t keeping all of us in line, post-producing ROVE projects with careful attention, she can be found cuddling up with a classic novel or watching a spine-tingling horror film.

The Sonos brand’s bold commitment to innovation in home audio has always inspired us.

We paid homage to their mission in this spec commercial created entirely in-house.

Sonos’ tagline, “The future of listening,” spurred a conversation; how could we capture this message visually and imaginatively conceptualize a new spot for the brand?

From the beginning, the goal was to find vibrant ways of visualizing sound and connectivity in our design approach. Our designer, Nidia Dias, brought these themes to life with mesmerizing ‘flowers’ featuring electric expanding properties.

It’s no secret that we love anything remotely sci-fi inspired, so Nidia’s styleframes were exactly our cup of tea.

When approaching the motion of these designs, we knew we wanted to start the spot in a tastefully stylized, relatively grounded space, only to fly inside the speaker where the vibrant world of psychedelia where abstract visualizations would exist.

Sure, floating, psychedelic, electro-flowers inside of a speaker is far-fetched…but it’s bold thinking that inspires and ultimately bridges the gap between the impossible and the practical.

Our work navigates the boundless cosmos of design and animation.

We’re an interdisciplinary squad of playful oddballs and cat whisperers. Our tight-knit team brings big visions to life with technical prowess and creative flair. Tapping into our extended family of creatives, we approach each project, big or small, with a unique attention to detail.

Making compelling work is just as important as the relationships we build along the way. That’s why cultivating collaboration with our clients is key to our process.

Capabilities

Creative

Animation

Production

Post-Production

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