All of the animations posted here are either in Flash or QuickTime, which can be viewable in your browser by downloading free plug-ins from Macromedia and Apple.
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Point/Counterpoint: This 30-second Flash clip was originally created as a QuickTime file for a contest that was sponsored by MoveOn.org only to have it rejected outright before it was even put up for a vote by the general public. (Click here and scroll down to the January 3 entry to read all the details of that rejection.) Here's your chance to decide for yourself whether it should have been rejected or not.
(File Creation Date: November 29, 2003; Screen Size: 400 x 291; File Size: 116 KB) |
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Guitar Love: The Musical: This Flash clip evolved from a music-themed project that I was working on for a Digital Imaging class that I was taking at the time. I originally envisioned it as a still .jpeg picture of a guitar couple playing each other's strings. (I was inspired to create guitar people from watching an old Walt Disney cartoon short called Music Land.) My instructor, who knew that I had learned Flash in a previous class, encouraged me to try making it into a short Flash animation, so I did. Then my instructor encouraged me to submit it to the college's 2002 Fall Student Art Show (along with another animation I had done the previous semester, The Dancing Monkeys). So I did and this piece won third place in the Best Animation and Multimedia category.
(File Creation Date: October 9, 2002; Screen Size: 413 x 300; File Size: 228 KB) |
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Hogan for Governor: I'm only placing this Flash clip online to prove that I am quite capable of doing professional Flash clips for other people and organizations. Con Hogan was running for governor in Vermont as an independent in 2002 and this Flash clip is basically a political commercial that's completely devoid of negative attacks on the opposition (which was probably a rarity that year). Doing this clip was a challenge because Hogan's campaign wanted a Flash clip yet did not want this to be cartoony (even though Flash is primarily a cartoon animation package). In addition, this clip had to be created in Flash yet be capable of being converted into a format that would allow this same commercial to be viewed on television stations throughout Vermont. Well, this clip proved that I succeeded on the technical level. It's too bad that Con Hogan lost the election, though.
One interesting fact about Con Hogan is that he has his own bluegrass band on the side, whose music you hear in the background of this clip. |
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The Dancing Monkeys: This animation class project is a humorous adaptation of an Aesop's Fable. This clip was a big hit with my class. A few months later it was entered and accepted into the 2002 Fall Student Art Show in my school. (File Creation Date: May 30, 2002; Screen Size: 550 x 400; File Size: 1.1 MB) View online now or download to hard disk first. |
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Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach: Here is an animation class project that followed The Running Girl and The Punk Singer. The object is to take a famous work of art and animate it in Flash. So I took Salvador Dali's surreal Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach and turned it into a wacky animation that's reminiscent of the animation segments placed between the comedy skits on Monty Python's Flying Circus. (File Creation Date: May 19, 2002; Screen Size: 384 x 300; File Size: 216 KB) View online now or download to hard disk first. |
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The Punk Singer: This is an animation that I did for the same class as The Running Girl. My assignment was to take an excerpt from a song and animate someone singing it. The character must not resemble the original artist who did the recording. I had to do the initial animation in Flash using only a blue background and export it out in QuickTime. Then I had to take that file and import it into Adobe Premiere where I added a background then export it out again as an improved QuickTime file. So I basically animated a woman singing a few lines from the old X-Ray Specs punk song Oh Bondage, Up Yours! (File Creation Date: April 24, 2002, Screen Size: 400 x 267; File Size: 5.6 MB) View online now or download to hard disk first. |
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The Running Girl: This experimental piece is a combination of two shorter Flash animations I did for a community college class. One animation showed a red ball bouncing against a sidewalk in the middle of a city while the other animation showed a girl running through the woods (and passing a few bees along the way). When the school was seeking submissions for the 2002 Spring Student Art Show, one of the teachers who was also organizing the show felt that none of the animations I had completed to date were long enough so I took her suggestion and combined two different animations into one using Public Image Limited's Socialist song as a soundtrack. It was accepted into the show. (File Creation Date: April 15, 2002; Screen Size: 550 x 400; File Size: 760 KB) View online now or download to hard disk first. |