Recent Projects

Midnight Snack

This was a stop-motion project I created using paper cutouts. It was shot on 24fps using a downshooter. My favorite part about this piece was the background designs and the animation of the main crow.  While animating the crow, I kept imagining it as having wings that sort of worked like leaves, but the body of the crow being where all of the weight was. Whenever its wings begin to falter and not flap quickly enough, its body begins to bob up and down in the air.

The puppets were constructed out of paper connected by a string and tape skeleton . Each crow puppet ended up being about 1 inch in length.

The Human Text-Based Game!

This was a site specific, interactive piece. I created cards with scenarios on them, volunteers would pull the cards, and I was supposed to act out the scenarios. This piece is intended to be reminiscent of a "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game".  the site was important because it was shot in a game room.

Recent Work

Lizard in Maya

Here is a lizard I modeled in Autodesk Maya for my Intro to 3D/Computer Animation class. I modeled it by importing an image of the lizard into the grid and by tracing it with the Create Poly tool. I then cut the faces of the geometry and pulled the vertices away from the grid to give the model some depth. I then used the "duplicate special" tool to duplicate the other half into a mirror image.



String Animation

This is my stop motion string assignment for my Intro to Animation class. The assignment was to use string to create movements. I used the Dragon Stop Motion software and down-shooters/line testing station. I painted the background in acrylic paint.

Recent Work

Here is our first animation project in my Intro to Animation class. The assignment was to create a stop-motion ball bounce animation using paper cut outs and animating them in the Dragon Stop-motion software.

Hardware

Nikon Camera + Line-testing machine

Software

Dragon Stop motion