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I created several of the animated sequences for ‘Lucky,’ a documentary that aired on HBO last month.
The documentary, by Jeffrey Blitz, aired on July 19th as part of HBO’s summer of documentaries. ‘Lucky’ focuses on “chronicling the many, and often sobering, effects winning a big jackpot can have on a person” (Television review: ‘Lucky’ on HBO by the Los Angeles Times).

The above character design is Miss Lotto. She was one of the characters that never made it into the final cut. Miss Lotto is a very simple cut-out character composited and animated in After Effects. Miss Lotto was drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom, lightly textured in Photoshop, cut out and then all her girly bits were imported into After Effects.

Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010.

‘Dead All Along’ is also screening tonight at the UCLA Animation Prom as part of the 2010 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. The special guest will be Randy Cartwright (The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast). Animation Prom is the festival screening the work from the UCLA Animation Workshop within the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

‘Dead All Along’ is the title track from Ceri Frost’s debut album CUI.

The screening is at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, at 7:30pm, Saturday June 5th.

Big thank you to Jenny Sherman and the Animation Students Organization (ASO) for all their hard work and effort to organize Prom <3

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‘Dead All Along’ has the wonderful honor of screening tomorrow night, on the opening night of the 2010 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. The special guest will be Director Joe Russo (You, Me & Dupree, Arrested Development). I’m a huge fan of Arrested Development, so I’m really excited that Joe Russo is our guest :)

‘Dead All Along’ is the title track from Ceri Frost’s debut album CUI.

The screening is at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, at 7:30pm, Friday June 4th.

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The above is a still from one of the animated sequences I illustrated and animated for Jeffrey Blitz’s new documentary, Lucky. Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010. I was fortunate to work again as an animator and illustrator with Bill Barminski from Walter Robot on this production and it was also great working with Jeffrey Blitz. I found Jeffrey to be a very intelligent and challenging director. The sequences were animated in After Effects, with the illustrations drawn and colored/textured in photoshop.

The reviews of Lucky have been positive and it seems people also liked the animated sequences, as this review from Scott Weinberg testifies “with nifty animated interstitials full of interesting jackpot stats.” You can read Scott’s full review here:

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/01/27/sundance-review-lucky/

I’m excited to see the full film. Please leave a comment if you’ve seen the film and let me know what you thought, thanks.

Manifestations is screening at the Anchorage International Film Festival.

Thanks ever so much to Teresa Scott :)

Manifestations is screening agian this coming weekend at the 18th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival. Here are the details for the second screening.

Where: Tivoli Theatre, Animated Shorts Program 1
When: Sunday, Nov. 22, 9:30 p.m.
Link: http://www.cinemastlouis.org/2009/short_programs.html#sp10

Manifestations was created within the UCLA Animation Workshop at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Music by Ceri Frost

Manifestations is screening twice at the 18th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival. Here are the details for the first screening.

Where: Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Animated Shorts Program 1
When: Saturday, Nov. 14, 5 p.m
Link: http://www.cinemastlouis.org/2009/short_programs.html#sp10

Manifestations was created within the UCLA Animation Workshop at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Manifestations, my animated short film, is an official selection of the Rockport Film Festival. The RFF looks like an awesome fest – would love to visit Texas for this one (have never been to Texas). Below is the screening information.

When: Sat, Nov 7th at 7:30pm
Where: Main Street Arts, 902 E Main, Rockport, Texas 78382
Film Link: Manifestations, Rockport Film Festival, 2009

Big thanks to John Aasp and the rest of the Rockport Film Festival crew :)

Manifestations was made at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television

I’m really excited that Manifestations is screening at The Revenge of the Freakishly Short Animation Festival. The trailer is brilliant and it looks like an awesome fest. The fest includes such amazing films as David O’Reilly’s, ‘Please Say Something’ and Jake Armstrong’s, ‘The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!’ I would love to go to this.

Where: Akron Art Museum, Ohio
When: Thursday, Oct. 29th at 7pm and Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2:00pm
Site: http://www.akronfilm.com/

Thanks ever so much to Steve Felix :)

Manifestations was made at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television