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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.

Today I released my animated music video, Manifestations, featuring music by Welsh composer, Ceri Frost.

Manifestations:
“Il faut trouver l’amour”…one must find love. The courageous Mr. Chip travels in search of love.
Music by Ceri Frost, www.cerifrostmusic.com

You can view Manifestations at the following sites:

2D animation using Flash, TVPaint and After Effects. Created at the Animation Workshop at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Please rate it/vote for it if you like it, thanks!

Loop of a robot pulling. Cut-out and drawn animation created in After Effects and Flash (keyframed and tweened).

Baby graphic for cut-out animation. This is for my animated music video, Manifestations, with music by Welsh composer Ceri Frost.

Hand drawn and Photoshop.

A cut-out soldier for my animated music video, Manifestations. The soldier is jointed so that he can be animated in After Effects in a cut-out style. His helmet, gun and items on his back are all separate objects for secondary animation.

Hand drawn and Photoshop.

More Dream animation stills from scene two of my short film. This is from the latest render of my loose narrative, music video/short film that I have been working on at UCLA this quarter. The music is by the amazingly talented Welsh composer Ceri Frost.

This film is a combination of TVPaint, Flash, hand drawn, hand painted, and Photoshop elements put together in After Effects. This film is almost finished and should be complete before January :)

Some stills from a non-narrative, dream short I am working on. I have been really lucky to work with Ceri Frost, an amazing and inspiring composer.

Hand drawn and Photoshop elements animated in After Effects and Flash.

I’ve almost finished a small flash game project that I’m working on at the UCLA Animation Workshop. It’s inspired by the wonderful games of Amanita Design.

Above is the sea background that I created. It’s a combination of hand drawn and photoshop colored elements.

Below is a link to the flash file that shows the game’s sea animation and the main character along with his idle animation (click on the image :)