A Short Thriller Animation A child wakes to find himself in a dark confined space. As he makes his way forward, it becomes evident that he is on a train. A shadow lurks watching and waiting for an opportune moment. This animation was a collaboration project with myself and MaryJo Snyder.
Category: 2018
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Collective Impromptu
A peak into the collective unconscious Using one ambiguous picture from the psychological assessment test, The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), college students were approached and asked to tell a story from the beginning, middle, and end describing what they saw in the photograph. This artwork was gathered almost like a psychological assessment. It lacked controlled […]
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Cinematic Immersion
A Psychoanalytic Examination This short animation accompanied by a complimenting soundtrack, gives a psychoanalytic provoking look into the accounts of cinema’s effect on voyeuristic activity. The increase in technology and theater architecture gives way to the extreme immersion of individuals in a physical and kinesthetic experience. The use of the game engine Unity as a […]
The shaky movement you perceive the beginning of the video, is captured using motion capture software. This piece functions like a moving sculpture. I attached squares and a helix, adding additional animations and then a particle system to this piece. This was created using Autodesk Maya and the video edits were done in Adobe Premiere.
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Cycling Butterfly
Autodesk Maya Cleanup Creating this animation had many small steps involved, one of the biggest was prepping the butterfly. I found a free butterfly model on turbo squid modeling website. The amount of polygon faces was very high. I ended up cleaning and then restructuring some parts of the butterfly to allow for more concise […]
Learning Autodesk Maya has been both exhilarating and challenging as an Artist. Before a year ago extruding or moving a vertices was foreign to me. Today I enjoy making small narrative stories with the skills I have learned so far. I took a a cylinder primitive and then animated it to perform an interesting rhythmic […]
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