Oliver Franklin Anderson

Documentarian · Investigative Journalist · Experimental Animator · Interactive Designer

Documentarian, investigative journalist, experimental animator, interactive designer, and technologist with a decade of experience translating complex, research-driven stories into compelling visual and interactive experiences. Collaborative, self-directed, and driven to create transformational glimpses into the unseen — work that informs, disrupts, and reimagines.

Wisconsin / Chicago / Los Angeles 920.205.1323 Email oliverfranklinanderson.com LinkedIn Instagram frognight.com greatlakescetaceaninstitute.com

Selected Projects

Frog Night

frognight.com

An interactive educational experience and public-science tool that predicts peak frog breeding choruses across Wisconsin. The platform combines a weather API, location data, and more than 40 years of citizen science records collected by the Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey. Creator, designer, and engineer behind the project. Launched in April 2026; currently expanding into neighboring states and developing a mobile app that will allow users to monitor frog populations through vocalization recordings.

The Natatorium and The Six Dolphins of John J. Garlic

Great Lakes Cetacean Institute · Forthcoming 2027

Interactive website for a forthcoming documentary film and podcast. Four years of original investigative journalism and fieldwork chasing the rumor of a dolphin buried in a Milwaukee backyard and the strange legacy of The Public Natatorium — a restaurant briefly built around a pool of live dolphins in the early 1980s. The site functions as a living archive and immersive story entry point for audiences ahead of the 2027 release.

Relevant Professional Experience

Animation Director

Electronic Counter Measures — Foo Fighters 2023 / 2026 Tours

3D visual design and execution streamlined for live rendering at arena scale.

Animator

Deer of 9 Colors — Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, 2025

Commissioned by the Thailand Biennale; shown at ONX Showcase in NYC and Athens LACMA, Summer 2026.

LIDAR Point Cloud Rendering and Animation

Ancestors — Sundance Selection 2026

Content Management and Quality Control

Missy Elliott — Coachella 2025

Interactive Design and Technical Direction

Deloitte and ServiceNow Corporate Events, 2025 / 2026 — The Sphere

Design, mapping/rendering, and artistic direction of vendor teams.

Education

BFA, Experimental Animation

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Competencies

Design & Web

HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Interactive Narrative Design / Data Visualization / Motion Graphics / UI/UX Prototyping

Software

Resolve / Affinity / Fairlight / Houdini / Blender / Unreal Engine / Cursor / Adobe Creative Suite

Soft Skills

Investigative Research / Journalism / Client Management / Project Scoping / Timeline Estimation / Contingency Planning / Quality Assurance / Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration / Self-Direction