Animation Doodles
Here are a few short, personal animation exercises that I like too much to let waste away on my computer, but not enough to give them their own page on my website.
For You
If you have ever gone to a figure drawing class, you'll notice that 20 people have drawn the same person in vastly different ways, yet they're all accurate depictions. This is what I have always enjoyed most about figure drawing, and I wanted to play with the concept in this short personal project.
The Chimney Swift
If I owned an Audubon shop it would be called the Chimney Swift, and it would sell over-the-top adorable bird houses. I made this short ad for my nonexistent shop just for fun.
Toon Toaster
Using a combination of Cinema4D and AfterEffects, I made this cell shaded magical toaster in order to play around with faux 2D cartoon styles.
The Great Party Owl
I made this to give me some joy during quarantine. There's really nothing else to it.
Animated Book Covers
After reading two incredible memoirs back-to-back, I felt inspired to create my own animated book cover for each of them. I made the composition vertical, to replicate the size of an actual book.
It was a lot of fun developing the concepts, and I hope to do some more soon.
Lazy Egg
A while ago I really wanted to begin a long-term personal project that would be beautiful and epic and super awesome, but I couldn't commit to any ideas. After a day of starts and stops, I became very frustrated with myself. I ended up creating this short, self-deprecating animation instead.
It's not nearly the super epic personal project I had wanted to make, but it was actually pretty fun and I think we all feel like lazy eggs sometimes.
Germs
Winner of People's Choice Best Motion Design
Winner of Judge's Choice Best Motion Design
For the Adobe Creative Jam, contestants have 3 hours to create an animation based off of a theme. At the Yale Adobe Creative Jam in 2017, the theme was "Inside Out." In collaboration with Sally Weiner, we created a short animation illustrating how people imagine germs.
Cat–ercises
These are two very short animations of cats that I used to practice some illustration and animation techniques. You can also see from these that I love cats.