Animation

Character Animation

I have been making animation ever since I discovered my father's 8mm movie camera had a single frame release trigger, acquired a few cans of Play-Doh, and parked myself in not the safest place in the middle of the house driveway.

I don't usually focus on conventional character animation in my work, but I teach it. I always make sure I have as good an understanding of a topic as I can.

The example here was a demonstration I made in one weekend, in which I modeled and rigged the character with the method I show in class, and animated it. The challenge for the project - for both myself and the students - is to create a sequence in which the character interacts with or exerts force upon another object - or vice versa. It is a much greater challenge than it may seem.

Overpass

A boy takes a ride in Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car through a desert filled with highways, where utopian visions of the future collide with the post-industrial environment of today. Entering a city, the boy learns he can control his environment, if only to rearrange it.

Music score "The fall of Lhasa" by cheryl o and Wally Jerichon

Awards:

First Prize, Animated Shorts, Rhode Island International Film Festival

Best of Show, Rosebud Independent Film Festival

2nd Prize, Jury Citation, Black Maria Film Video Festival

Best Animation, Crossroads Film Festival

Honorable Mention, Humboldt International Short Film Festival

Trophy Award, Rochester International Film Festvial

Projectionist Award, daVinci Film Festival

Exhibition:

Transmediale, Berlin, 2005

Interfilm Berlin, Germany

London International Animation Festival

Rhode Island International Film Festival

daVinci Film Festival, Oregon

Artscape, Baltimore Maryland

Anim Mundi International Festival of Animation, Brazil

Boston International Film Festival

Black Maria Film and Video Festival

Rosebud Film and Video Festival

Rochester International Film and Video Festival

Maryland Film Festival

Festival Arcipelgo, Italy

Filmstock International Film Festival, England

Melbourne International Animation Festival

Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois

Seattle International Film Festival

Humboldt International Short Film Festival, CA

Firstglance Philadelphia Film Festival

Riverrun International Film Festival, North Carolina

Crossroads International Film Festival, Mississippi

CAmm Ides of March Animation Invitational, Maryland

Hi Mom! Film Festival, Chapel Hill North Carolina

Johns Hopkins Film Festival

Fargo Film Festival

Texas Film Festival

Independent Film Festival of Boston

Trenton Film Festival

Blackpoint Film Festival, Wisconsin

Antelope Valley International Film Festival, CA

Langbaugh Film Festival, Portland

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