SHOWREEL

"KNOCKDOWN!"

An animation inspired by the 90s 2D fighter games such as King of Fighters and Darkstalkers. I was interested in blurring the line between 2D and 3D.
Below are the initial storyboards which were condensed in the final animation.

"THE BUTTERFLY BANDIT"

This is a 3D layout that I created in Blender which allowed for a more streamlined workflow during production. It was used as a base to animate on top of and as a reference for all the backgrounds to look cohesive.

This was of a group assignment from my first year of university and was in development for 3 months. The stage I most enjoyed was developing the story, as we played around with different ideas as a group.

Through the development of this project, I learnt a lot about preproduction for character animation, involving making turnarounds, x-sheets and mouth shape charts.

"ANGEL & ALIEN"

In this assignment, we were tasked with creating a motion plan for our character, interrogating how their personality would affect their performance. This then informed how I used the 12 principles of animation.

A personal project inspired by the multiplane cameras of old Disney movies, in which I used video editing to imitate parallax.

I worked with a professor of biomedical science to develop initial ideas for a illustrated book teaching children about bacteria. It was a fun challenge to make complex concepts more digestable.

An animation inspired by the techniques popular during early animation history, such as stop motion and the zoetrope, which also functions as a visual device that communicates the character’s inability to escape.

"GRADUATION"

"BIRD OF LOVE (AND LUST)"

Another work inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "and it was Lust the vulture, not Love, the Bird of Paradise that flopped, foully and disgustingly, upon his shoulders."
Here, I visualise Woolf's surrealist writing using watercolour, and depicting the transformation as a seamless and dynamic flow from one state to another.