Hi....

Sorry I haven't posted here in a little while... After the big Anime Boston disappointment [see here] and a super bad semester, I haven't really felt like posting much...Not only that but after the convention I got REALLY sick, then had to write a huge paper for my horrible North Renaissance class... ;__;

I'm also in the midst of a terrible case of insomnia... :P

Anyway, I thought I'd post something... so here's one of the final animations from my Animation 4 class: "The Powerpuff Girls" Style Test. Based on the style of Craig McCracken and Joseph Giardina.



I am NEVER using Frame Thief to shoot my inked frames again! It makes my linework look horrible :(

The other two style tests didn't pan out too well.......... :/

Also, here's my "Bird Calls" animation with the completed sound design work, by the wonderful Phoebe Danskin! :D


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This semester was a huge disappointment and definitely not my best... I have to completely re-color my PSA animation, because based the my on review (which went very badly) inking my animation was a terrible idea... This is something I didn't mind hearing too much, but really wish my teacher would have informed me of before I had invested so much time in it, since they were the one who suggested inking it in the first place. ;__;

I hope next semester goes better.

This summer hopefully, I can find a job and work on some of my side art projects that were on hold for school. Like, the AZU Project:

PSA Animatic-- DeAnimation

Low Quality.... whatever :P



For my first Animation 4 assignment: To create a Public Service Announcement (PSA).

My PSA will act as a self-promotional video for THIS blog! :D

Hopefully, a Berklee student will be adding a musical score and sound effects to the animatic and final animation.

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This was a bit of a difficult process... For one, I've never had to do an animatic more than twice for one project. In addition this process also involved one of the most intense critiques I've ever been a part of... It was pretty brutal. O__O

Bird Calls w/o BG sound

I actually just finished it this week! :P



Finally finshed! Well the animation portion is....

I'm going to be working with a Berklee student to add background sounds and possibly music to this animation. I'll put up that version when it's finished.

My second to last animation for my Animation III class is probably the most production heavy assignment I've done yet... :P

The assignment was to go to and create an animation based on an artist with sound found on the website. I picked "Birdcalls" (God knows why...) by photographer Lousie Laweler.

This assignment is about 1 minute and 30 seconds of hand drawn animation, full of composting, over layering movements, and 3 extremely annoying women making bird calls for no apparent reason.

The original animatic: