Portfolio Category: Animation

  • Short Stories

    Short Stories

    In this interactive video installation, viewers had the ability to manipulate animated video content using touch sensitive surfaces that I built. The gestures made by the viewer are translated by the touch surface to reveal an underlying layer of animation that reimagines narratives given by children.   These narratives were gathered in interviews wherein I…

  • Chain Three and Join

    Chain Three and Join

    I made Chain Three and Join shortly after exhibiting the Twine Hive installation. Crocheting became an important hobby of mine, so I felt inspired to make a short animated piece about it. I used the same rotoscoping animation technique seen in Adventure Tree with the addition of color.   I named Chain Three and Join…

  • Adventure Tree

    Adventure Tree

    For my first ever animated project, I wanted to tell a story that dealt with the exploratory nature of children. The subject matter of Adventure Tree would later inform my installation work titled Short Stories.   To animate Adventure Tree, I rotoscoped footage shot with a Mini DV camcorder. Following animation, I drew backgrounds based…

  • Harmony, Inner Peace, & Tenderness

    Harmony, Inner Peace, & Tenderness

    “Harmony, Inner Peace, & Tenderness” is the second music video I made for Stephen Kalinich & Jon Tiven.   This video was especially ambitious in that it used very few repeated frames of animation. I filmed about two hours of footage which was then rotoscoped in full color. To create the background textures, I composited…

  • When I Leave My Body

    When I Leave My Body

    “When I Leave My Body” was the first single from the album Symptomology by Jon Tiven and Stephen Kalinich. The video follows the misadventures of the duo’s alter-egos. MsMusic Productions released Symptomology in August 2012 along with its companion album, Shortcuts to Infinity.   This was the third short film I animated using rotoscoping. I…