For everyone who might happen to come by this blog, I wanted to let you know that some friends and I have a new podcast available. We are doing alternative commentaries for the Adult Swim show Home Movies. You can find all the episodes and feeds at HomeCommentaries.com.
(If you click though to the YouTube Page there is an option for a higher quality version)
To commemorate my graduation from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, I though I would post this. This is the last project I ever completed for MIAD. It stars myself and many of my friends and fellow time-based media majors, some of whom have vox accounts in my neighborhood.
In this short, a young man buys a super-hero kit over the internet, the main component of which is a massive flow chart to guide the user through every conceivable crime fighting situation. These are The Adventures of Neato Mosquito and the Fantastic Flowchart.
It was done entirely in Flash. I am very happy with it. I will be making minor revisions before I start submitting it to festivals. I hope you enjoy it.
I just updated my demo reel today so I thought I'd post it. I hope you enjoy
Clips in order of appearance:
1 "Confessions of an Animation" (collaboration)
Created character, Wrote dialogue, and Animated
2 "Jester"
Designed character and Animated
3 "Sophie vs the Frog" See full version in its own post
4 Bumber for Stun Productions
5 "Lunch Time Trouble"
Conceived, Directed, Animated, and Performed in. See Full Version in earlier post
6 "The Gauntlet"
Designed characters and Animated. See Full version in previous post.
7 Title sequence for "It's Happieness: A Polka Documentary"
Conceived and Animated
8 More "Sophie"
9 "Shotputs and Saltshakers"
Conceived and Animated. See Full version in earlier post.
10 More "Sophie".
11 "Whales are dumb". See full version in its own post.
Okay here is the result of the last four weeks of class. Here's how it worked
Week 1: We drew characteristics from a hat (2 physical characteristics and 2 non-physical)
We had to do two walk cycles with some kind of transition between them.
(My characteristics were "smokes a cigar"/"Sexy" and "Two pigtails"/"Lonely")
Week 2: We picked two more characteristics from the hat. (this time the characteristics were made up by the other students. Perhaps not the best idea)
We had to transition to the new character and animate him skipping and then jumping three times.
(My characteristics were "Eyes bigger than his body" and "Michael Jackson")
Week 3: We drew an inanimate object from a hat.
We had to transition to this new "character" and animate it sneaking and eventually finding a hiding place.
(I drew a coat hanger)
Week 4: We rondomly drew some event or situation to animate (Mine was a baby struggling to take his first steps)
We had to transition to this new character and animate the action from an extreme perspective.
We actually found this assignment gave us alot of room to be creative and cheeky. I enjoyed it a lot and I think
it turned out well. I hope you enjoy it.
(note: I'm having problems uploading the video. I'll have it up as soon as possible)
Here is the final version of the Shot-puts and SaltShakers animation. I posted an first pass earlier. I hope you enjoy this. See if you can guess what personality trait I gave him. ;)
Hello again. This was our first assignment this semester in Animation III. We were given a description of a sequence to complete. A jester is cleaning up after a banquet (I don't know why) and realizes he's alone. He pretends to be king for a little while and then either falls asleep or is startled by a door opening and tries to act normally. The sequence had to be 14-20 seconds.
The time limit was the hardest part. Just about everyone did a full 20sec.
It was amazing all the different directions people took with the same description.
This one is mine. I made the music in Garage Band. Also the background is from a Mr. Magoo cartoon.
I hope you enjoy.
Here is another small bit of animation. This was just a first pass so there are a few things that need to be fixed. I just had him packing vague shapes and it ended up looking like he was packing shotp uts, salt shakers, and a coffe mug. For the next pass I'll be adding more character to the movement. I think it will be fun.
This is a short I did for a video class. It's a blend of live action and stop-motion. And yes it was loosley inspired by Teeny Little Super Guy from Sesame Street.
