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This little cartoon took ten years to finish. I drew it all out in pen and ink the winter of 1995, and didn’t get around to shooting it for exactly a decade. Here you go!
format: DV video
software: Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1995.
Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category
350 Feet
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Glasfilm
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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Yeah, everybody who’s been to film school has got a scratch film, but I’m partial to this one.
format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Amsterdam, 1998.
The Dead Man and the Lawyer (Maya test)
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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Here’s a Maya test for the short that became The Lawyer and the Dead Man.
format: DV video
software: Maya
San Francisco, 2006.
The Judge
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This video was my first try at rotoscoping, created as a projection for a dance performance. The character here is a corrupt judge receiving his karmic punishment–which I imagine here as getting flushed down into some kind of supernatural plumbing.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Final Cut
Pittsburgh, 2001.
The Pilot
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This is one of two attempts I made to turn the text of a curious 1960s children’s book into a cartoon. Stay tuned…
format: DV video
software: Director, AfterEffects
Los Angeles, 2002.
Six Premonitions
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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Here are six very short films made in the six months leading up to the Second Iraq War.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
Art of News
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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I love this little opener I created for the Pittsburgh public-access show Art of News. The jack-in-the-box was puppeteered with wire rods that I painted out in Commotion, which worked out so well I’ve been looking for an excuse to do it again ever since.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, Premiere, Audition, Acid
Pittsburgh, 2001.
Jam
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This was my first, never-finished stab at 3D animation; I’ve got something a bit more modern coming up soon. In the meantime, while visually this thing wouldn’t pass muster as a turn-of-the-century game cutscene, I do like how the music turned out.
format: DV video
software: Maya
Pittsburgh, 1999.
Aleph/Bet
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
What if you’re offered only two options, and neither of them are any good? The poor creature in this short can’t hope to understand that it’s trapped inside a completely arbitrary system.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, FrameThief, Premiere, DVD Studio
Pittsburgh, 2001.
Peace Through Strength (Rule or Ruin #1)
Saturday, December 24th, 2005
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
>> #1 in a series of 6
At the start of the Afghan War, I heard the title’s classic Cold-War motto resurrected by Texas Congressman Dick Armey. Oddly enough, it made me think of the Lewis Carroll poem “The Voice of the Lobster,” in which the Panther and the Owl sit down to negotiate an agreement. The story just seems to have a timely ring about it.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Premiere, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.
