Prompt/Problem: Create a short hand drawn animation. Defy/subvert expectations, and try not to embrace tropes. Delight.
Process: Researched classic tropes to avoid. Generated novel ideas and experimented with twist endings. Experimented with pacing and aesthetic. Considered alternative endings. Refined style.
Product: Short hand drawn animation that invokes tradition and subverts expectations.
Skills: Toon Boom Harmony, animation, storyboards, concept development, stylized design, abstraction, iterative process
Prompt/Problem: Create a hand drawn animation of a rotating self portrait.
Process: Photographed reference material (subject’s face from multiple angles), traced and established tweens, colorized and stylized.
Product: Rotating self portrait with cardboard and marker aesthetic.
Skills: Toon Boom Harmony, animation, storyboards, photographic reference, 2D visualization of volume/space and time, stylized design, iterative process
Prompt/Problem: Create animated assets for introduction, title information, and ending of an original music video submission to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest.
Process: Designed sequences in response to context and content of video, studied and matched target aesthetic, traced reference material, integrated animation over live action video, compressed mixed media files for final video.
Product: Animated introduction, title, and closing shot for original song, “Let Us Listen,” by Creative Measures (an NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission).
Skills: Photoshop, After Effects, style matching, reference material, typography and branding
Prompt/Problem: Create a ~30 second stop motion animation from a series of images (10 frames per second). Explore formal relationships between materials and words as a guide to the concept and visualization.
Process: Selected words and materials. Developed concept. Storyboarded, photographed, and compiled animation.
Product: Stop motion animation with four materials as subjects (sand, plaster, tinfoil, tape)
Skills: Photoshop, stop motion animation, concept development, storyboards, photography
Prompt/Problem: Create 1-2 minute animation with a narrative arc.
Process: Researched options, selected text as source material, visualized, created storyboard, collected reference photos, experimented with textures and aesthetic, blended and bridge styles according to narrative arc.
Product: 2 minute animation, visualization of short story written ~2010.
Skills: Toon Boom Harmony, animation, storyboards, photographic reference, abstraction and visualization of narrative, stylized design, iterative process