Box-Bot Boogie animated #1: Clowns Frowns and the Worst Burger in Town!

It's finally here! The Box-Bot Boogie animated special I promised years ago is finally available on my Newgrounds and YouTube channels and right here on this website!

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After presenting it as my thesis film for Temple University's Film and Media Arts program (Yes, I graduated!) and it's screening at the diamond screen film festival, I'm proud to present what I hope will be the first of several Box-Bot Boogie animated episodes.

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Wyrd Sisters (New Animated Short)

 

This was my project for Videography class and was part of an omnibus film of Shakespeare homages. I decided for my segment I wanted a sci-fi retelling of the witch scene from Macbeth, trading in medieval Scotland for a futuristic alien world. I left a lot of "the bard's" dialogue in tact, but I also added original content to try to make it its own story. I hope you enjoy.

All the modeling and 3D animation was done in Blender 2.93 (except the human-like characters started out in MakeHuman).

The characters are wearing my custom toon-shaders, hand-drawn textures, and various ink-lining techniques. Many of the background textures came from textures.com.

Editing was done in Adobe Premere Pro, and the opening text crawl and 2D "prophecy" sequence were done in Smith Micro Anime Studio Pro.

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Delivery Dragon Sequence!

 

For my CG animation Final. I decided a magical fantasy where a wizard summons a dragon-rider to make a special delivery.

Happy Halloween 2020!

 Happy Halloween everyone! I know I didn't make too many "Halloween Gallery" pictures (I didn't make any really, might make one tonight), but let's face it. It's been one messed up year! Still, I managed to turn an experimental video assignment for college into a Halloween Special of sorts, and I did carve a cool pumpkin, so here they are...

Also, I'd like to extend a shout out to DerpyCon Online this weekend! Having a blast with it!

Sunflower:Cavern of Secrets (New animated short)

This was another student project. It doesn't look as nice as it did in my head (I wish my character models looked as nice from the side as they do the front), and I went over and fixed the more glaring animation errors, but there's still a few small ones. But, considering the tight deadline (I animated this in less than a week), I guess it looks okay.

I was going for a slow and sentimental feel like a Miyazaki film, or an episode of Steven Universe. Not sure if I succeeded.

This was also my way of learning to use the new Blender 2.8, which is very different than previous versions.

Made using Blender 2.8, along with Anime Studio Pro, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, and Adobe Premiere.

Adrift (animated short)

This is another student film, my final for the semester (though I may be getting a zero, for being a few days late, stay tuned). It's a little corny, but I wanted to do a full scale space adventure, and I did it.


A few issues:

I animated this in a HUGE hurry trying (and failing) to get it done in time. So, I didn't have time to do everything I could to make it look like traditional frame-by-frame animation. It really shows that these characters are made of motion-tweened segments.

My audio sucks. I need to get a decent microphone, I used the one built into my laptop. At least my "outsourced" voices sound alright.

There's some kind of annoying glitch that makes the outlines flicker white and effects like shading/masking/blurring flicker on and off (I used Anime Studio Pro). I don't know how to fix that (I think I put too much in each file, and had too many layers within layers. I should maybe give each shot it's own file instead of each scene)

Anyway, please enjoy it for what it is, and if you like it, leave a comment!