Halloween Gallery: Nightmare Bug-Boy!

   

 A little Halloween special using paper cut-outs in a 3D environment. A bunch of ghosts are terrified by a possessed trick-or-treater who chases them through a graveyard. This was my final for "Animation Workshop" (a class that focused more on traditional animation techniques rather than pure CG) this semester and I thought I'd do a fun little combination of paper cut-out animation in a semi-3D digital environment.

All the animation is real paper cut-outs, but they were scanned into the computer and combined with digital backgrounds in 3D space in Blender. My professor really liked the combination. Enjoy this year's Halloween Special!

Box-Bot Boogie: Animated Special Preview Video

 

 

Hey, I know it's been a long time since I updated anyone on the animated Box-Bot Boogie special that I promised years ago. Well, that's about to change! I'm pleased to announce that I'm finally working on the special as my BFA final project at Temple. This behind-the-scenes video above was presented at the "Soft-Where" exhibit at the Diamond Film Festival at the Temple University Performing Arts Center.

By the end of the next semester, I hope to have the whole special finished and ready to present! Frederick and Zoki are back!

Animation Workshop Tid-bits.

 One of the cooler classes I have is "Animation Workshop" where we get to make short animations in all sorts of media. I have three exercises here to show you. The "Self Portrait" was traditionally animated on real paper. The "Raindrop on Leaf" was digitally drawn in Photoshop. And the "Lion Dance" was rotoscoped in Krita from a short video I took of a Lunar New Year event. Enjoy!