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| Playing Duke Ellington |
| TVPaint |
| A frame-by-frame animation drawn in TVPaint. For this assignment, I was given a short excerpt from Jules Feiffer's memoir, "Backing into Forward," and asked to animate the scene to music. |
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| The Hunter Becomes... |
| TVPaint, After Effects |
| An "illustrated story" about a game which starts out dangerous, then becomes the most dangerous, then less dangerous, then about trees, and finally about pelicans. |
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| Sand & Stars |
| Stop-Motion Photography |
| A stop-motion animation made from soil on a light table. Loosely based on a Walt Whitman poem. |
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| Home Is Where I Neatly Hang My Hat |
| TVPaint, Digital Photography |
| For this assignment, I was asked to tell a story of my "home" using photography, frame-by-frame animation, text, and narration. |
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| Product Design |
| Stop-Motion Photography |
| A stop-motion animation made with books, scissors, hammers, and more, about product design. |
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| Rise And Shine |
| Live-Action Film, Final Cut Pro |
| An experimental film involving multiple channels to depict a branching story. I storyboarded, wrote, directed, shot, and edited it myself. |
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| Modern Man |
| Live-Action Film, Final Cut Pro |
| A "visual poem" set to a reading of "Modern Man" by George Carlin. The film was shot, and then effects were added in Final Cut Pro. |
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| Easy Money |
| Live-Action Film, Final Cut Pro |
| A short dialog exercise for a film class, involving discussion of a bank robbery. As with my other films, I did everything but act. The script can also be read here. |
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| The Gift |
| Maya |
| A short animation involving a dinosaur who discovers a gift in the desert. I did everything involved, including modeling, rigging, and animating, myself. |
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| Robot Vs. Skateboard |
| 3D Studio Max |
| A short animation involving a battle between a robot and his natural predator, a skateboard. I did everything involved, including modeling, rigging, and animating, myself. |
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| The Bat And The Hat |
| Flash |
| A frame-by-frame animation made in Flash. The assignment was to convey 8 basic actions: press, thrust, glide, dab, wring, float, slash, and flick. |
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| Blocked Out |
| After Effects |
| An animation made in After Effects. The assignment was to take a piece of artwork (I chose Mondrian's "Blue Plane") and challenge it: I pitted his bold lines against a mischevious ball. |
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| One Gel At A Time |
| Live-Action Film, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop |
| A short documentary interview with Dr. Lonny Levin, illustrated with brief animations and cartoon cutaways. |
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| Clean Sweep |
| Live-Action Film, Final Cut Pro, Maya, Photoshop |
| A short film involving competing cleaning supplies. Also, textured models of cleaning supplies that I creating Maya and Photoshop. |
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| The Head |
| Maya |
| A model of a human head that I created in Maya. Contains two turn-tables, one with contours visible, one without. |
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| The Brief Adventures of Captain Pessimist |
| Maya |
| A short animation involving cynical superhero, Captain Pessimist. I modeled, textured, rigged, and animated this myself. Captain Pessimist can also be found in The Pancake Chronicles. |
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| Explosions! |
| C++, BOOST Library, OpenGL |
| A physically based simulation of explosions that I programmed with Omar Maskati. This was based on the paper “Animating Suspended Particle Explosions” (Feldman, O'Brien, Arikan). |
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