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The UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper featured an article about my work on my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along,’ in today’s paper, Monday, September 28th 2009. Ceri Frost, the musical artist, and Bill Barminski, of Walter Robot Studios, were also interviewed. I had the honor of having Bill Barminski on my thesis committee for ‘Dead All Along’ :)

Katie Meschke was the writer for the article and did an excellent job putting the whole thing together. Thanks Katie!

Also, thanks to Maryia Krivoruchko, the musical editor at UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper!

‘Dead All Along’ was created at the UCLA Animation Workshop at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.

‘Dead All Along’, performed by Ceri Frost, has also been featured at the following sites:

DailyMotion.com – Arts Channel
RadarMusicVideos.com – Featured Music Video
QOOB.tv – QOOB Choice

Big thank you to Caroline Bottomley of RadarMusicVideo.com.

‘Dead All Along’, my recent animated music video, is featured on Juxtapoz over at their blog: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/edward-gorey-inspired-music-video-for-dead-all-along.

I’m really happy to be on Juxtapoz as I’m a huge fan of their art and culture themed magazine and admire many of the artists they feature :)

‘Dead All Along’ is an Edward Gorey inspired animated music video performed by the talented Ceri Frost.

Big thank you to Katie Zupann and the rest of the crew at Juxtapoz.

‘Dead All Along’ my newest animated music video for Ceri Frost is featured on nofatclips.com here: http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2009/09/ceri-frost-dead-all-along.html.

nofatclips.com is an excellent blog that has a slew of inspiring music videos and shorts and is well worth visiting for inspiration and resources.

A big thank you to DeK for sharing the love <3

‘Dead All Along’ is featured as The Short of the Moment on The Short of the Week.

Big thank you to Andrew Allen and the rest of the crew at the The Short of the Week.

Yesterday I released the animated music video for the song ‘Dead All Along’ by Ceri Frost. Today ‘Dead All Along’ was featured on Vimeo’s Staff Picks channel :)

‘Dead All Along’, By Ceri Frost, Dir by Giles Timms (2:13)
Enchanted by a pixie, a child called Yorick enters a magical kingdom, but when Yorick returns he finds his world ravaged by time. Made at the Animation Workshop at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, 2009.

The animated music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style. Compositing and animation in After Effects.

You can view the video on vimeo here:

Image stills from my new music video, Dead All Along, performed by Ceri Frost.

Enchanted by a fairy, a child called Yorick briefly journeys in the fairy kingdom, but when Yorick returns to his world he discovers that everything has changed. The art direction for the film is inspired by the work of Edward Gorey and so the worlds and characters are hand-drawn in pen and ink.

Produced at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, Animation Workshop. To be released this fall, 2009 :)

A still image from the opening scene for my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’ performed by Welsh musician Ceri Frost.

Here is the revised treatment for the music video.

Logline: Enchanted by a fairy and transformed into a faun, a child called Yorick briefly journeys in the fairy kingdom, but when Yorick returns to his family he discovers that he and his family are already dead.

This is based on the myth of Tir Nan Og, an alternate or parallel universe, a place where time stands still and there is no sickness or death. The fairy kingdom is said to be a hilltop one, but invisible, or composed of magnificent underground cities. Fairy kings and queens rule there. Humans who enter the fairy realm cannot leave once the door closes behind them. Those who do leave may find that years have passed on earth during what was, for them, but minutes in the fairy kingdom.

I’m working hard on finishing this up this weekend so that it can be shown at UCLA’s PROM, the Animation Film Festival, on June 6th :)

Hand drawn and Photoshop with compositing in After Effects.

Work in progress for my next project at UCLA. These are color comps and character designs for an animated music video for “Dead All Along” performed by the amazingly talented, Ceri Frost. This is a terrific song by Ceri.

Logline: Peekle the faun, a mystical animal link to nature, realizes that he and nature are dead to mankind.

The death spoken of in the song is the death of man’s reverence for nature. At one time, man recognized that animals represented a mystical link to nature and the divine. Peekle is a spirit animal or totem animal who linked man with nature and the divine, and facilitated man’s communion with nature and the divine. Now, man no longer sees the spirit animals and has forgotten how to commune with them. Peekle is therefore dead to men, and nature and the divine are lost to us. The words and music of nature no longer inspire men.

Work in progress, hand drawn and Photoshop.

This is the title drawing for ‘Dead All Along,’ my current animated music video project at UCLA. ‘Dead All Along’ is performed by Welsh musician, Ceri Frost.

Hand drawn and colored in Photoshop.