Christmas Around the World Interstitial

This was one of 9 interstitials I created for the Christmas play "Christmas Around the World" at the Vineyard Christian Church of Evanston.  Had a blast, especially creating the blinking lights.  (Making it snow was fun, too!)

Merry Christmas 2007

I came up with this out of helping a friend with a family newsletter-video where he wanted a drawing his daughter drew to sing. I drew this little guy as a test to see what it would take then decided to use him as my Christmas greeting. A good exercise in lip-syncing.

FishTale

I finished out my academic career with this piece. I'm proud of what I accomplished here as it's a combination of character animation and special effects, namely the water distortion, water caustics, the light through the window, bubbles, and especially the cat's shadow.

I made extensive use of of After Effects to create the effects and put the various pieces together.

Hope you enjoy it.

This was a short animation I did for an animation production class back in the day: