Here's a look at the latest progress in my animated short, The Nature of Craenids. Most of the work that remains involves cleaning up and coloring the animation. This is the version of the film that was recently shown for my senior review at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Here's an update on the lip-sync shot of the fashion designer from my short film. Remaining work is basically final line, color, and maybe another subtle movement at the end. Scroll down to see more of the work in progress from The Nature of Craenids!

Also: YouTube seems to have stretched it a bit, and the audio is just a tiny bit off. These are formatting issues and will not be a problem in the final composite of the film.

I've been working on the shots involving stars and planets for my film. I started to get carried away with making a photo-realistic planet for the opening homeworld shot, so I had to stop myself. The end result is a fairly realistic planet... that is cel-shaded.
*shrug* I may or may not keep it like this.

Many thanks to the Stratton Foundation for their selection of The Nature of Craenids as one of the winners of their scholarship prize!

Here is a look at the work in progress on this film. Some important changes that are taking place:
1) This is not the final music, and perhaps not the final narration, either.
2) Backgrounds are being colored and I expect to have all of them more or less finished in the next two weeks.
3) The shots you see that have little or no animation are either being drawn right now, or are going to be made using computer software in the next week or so.

Also, some slight improvements have been made to the site. For one thing, I am no longer hosting the videos on this server; it is easier and more reliable to use YouTube. Additionally, the illustrations and concept art sections have been combined into the Portfolio section. Now I just have to figure out what to put in the Sketches section...

This is an update on my traditionally animated film-in-progress, "The Nature of Craenids." The film is currently nearing completion of animation keyframes. I hope to get some finished backgrounds over Christmas break, so that the next five months can be spent in-betweening and cleaning up.

Here is a glance at what I'd like the style of the film to resemble:


Also, I fixed the Animation section a bit, and also added my Resume to the Contact section. Stay in touch for more updates!

Well it's been a week since Ottawa and I'm back to schedule. I met a lot of interesting people there and I hope to contact them this week. Also I'm working on an animated mock TV series intro that will probably go into the Animation section when it's done.

I have successfully gotten all areas of this site working properly. Feel free to browse! In the meantime, you should know that the "Sketches" section is currently filled with illustrations like the one below. I do have a collection of sketches and gesture drawings that I will upload later, which means I will probably have to make a new section for the illustrations.



In other news, I am making progress in my short film, The Nature of Craenids, with plans to release it next spring. More updates on that to come!

As for now... I'm off to the Ottawa International Animation Festival!

I'll be heading to the Ottawa International Animation Festival soon. Last year was my first time and it was a blast. This year will be even better!