*Medium: Jigsaw Puzzle*
Jigsaw Puzzle
(16 seconds)This project is still incomplete. In the end it was supposed to finish the puzzle completely. I chose this puzzle because, for one whole month, I used to put it together everyday. I knew how to assemble it well, but I lost interest almost after I started doing it.
Description: The boarder of the jigsaw puzzle is assembled.
Cartwheel
(8 seconds)This was my first Play-doh project. I decided to try this medium because it was the closest to claymation.
Description: A guy does a cartwheel, but his head falls off.Close Call
(7 seconds)Description: A man is standing minding his own business when a rock falls from above.
Sucked In
(4 seconds)Description: A man approches a seemlessly harmless red rock.
Old Man's Face
(6 seconds)I make a brief appearance in this one. Yep, that's my hand.
Description: An old man yaks on about nothing, then starts to fall apart.Munched
(12 seconds)The first appearance of my 'Jaws' monster.
Description: A little guy is in for a big surprise.Birth & Death
(8 seconds)When the guy falls onto the rock, that wasn't planned, but it fit nicely into the final product.
Description: A man emerges from a rock, then returns back into itInvasion of the Body Snatchers
(5 seconds)While coming up with this idea, I decided to go the way the the movie did.
Description: A man, unable to sleep, is duplicated and his original melts away.Da Bomb
(7 seconds)By breaking off sections of the play-doh, bit by bit, it made the fuse look like it was burning away
Description: The fuse for a bomb slowly burns away, until...Creation of Man
(9 seconds)Another one of my favorites, watch as the 'creature' consumes the guy, how it drools while doing so...
Description: A man slowly crawls out from a rock, after which the rock comes to life and reclaims him.The Dancing Monster
(12 seconds)That's my hand you see place the Play-doh on the platform & dance with it afterwards
Description: After placing a ball of play-doh down, it comes to life and it's creator does a little dance with it.The Happy Monster
(2 seconds)This is one of my least destructive ones.
Description: A monster pops to life from a ball, but smiles instead of attacking.The Monster Living In Your Head
(16 seconds)This was one of my early favorites, except the ending didn't go so smoothly. Originally, I had the little creature leave the head first, then come running back and plant a bomb in the mouth. Only, you don't see the monster approach the head, it's just suddenly there and the head explodes. So I just cut the entire part of the guy seeing the creature run off screen and back and just had the head explode while the creature's leaving.
Description: A man is harassed by a monster living inside his head.The Juggler
(37 seconds)The longer the short, the more of a favorite it was. This one is cool to me, because of the simplicity it took to animate it. All I had to do for the longest time was just move the balls around in the right order. As for the ending, I just didn't know how to end this any other way other than violently like all my other pieces before this.
Description: A man juggles 3 balls before his untimely death.Falling Apart Facially
(10 seconds)For a while, the theme kinda was making heads with play-doh and then doing something with them.
Description: A face slowly starts to fall apart, until the head just explodes.The End
(4 seconds)This is actually one of my first projects, but because it ends with the words 'The End' I saved this one for last.
Description: A man is decapitated with a spear.*Medium: Play-Doh & Fisher Price Toys*
Monster Attack!
(40 seconds)Another favorite. What I like most about this one is how the 'babies' emerge from the 'body' of the attacking creature.
Description: During a peaceful day, a monster comes and attacks a main street of a small community.Rock & Girl
(5 seconds)I used a Fisher Price figure in this project.
Description: A girl, who is wondering around, is consumed by a red rock.Wheelchair Escapades
(5 seconds)One could assume this is a sequel to the 'Rock & Girl' short.
Description: A girl in a wheelchair takes on a wall.*Medium: Fisher Price Toys*
Modern Day
(1 minute, 21 seconds)This is the longest short I ever made. It took me over 8 hours to make it, and it's only 1 minute and 20 seconds long The best thing I like about this video is all the things that are going on at once. As I was creating, I was brainstorming what I could do next that would be cool. If you watch some of my other videos, you'll see recurring characters (the taxi guy and his cowboy hat totin' friend).
Description: A great deal of activity on Main Street one afternoon.Typical Day
(3 seconds)This is my very first short I made on my own. I made it after school the day I found out about this feature on my camera.
Description: A typical day on main street.Pending Cartoons:
*Medium: Dry Erase Board*
A quick note on this medium: for one week, I spent an entire class period just drawing from beginning to end. There's no real plotline for any of these, they're more or less just random images that work off one another. Therefore, there are no descriptions.
Also, some of these are not my work, those are noted below.Alarm Clock
(17 seconds)
Cassie
(14 seconds)
The Flower
(14 seconds)
Biting The Worm
(26 seconds)
Whatzzup!?
(24 seconds)The Rocket
(2 seconds)This one was an experiment, I wanted to see how to create motion by simply changing lines around an object. And I was gonna have him crash into the mountain more, but the bell rang and I had to end it. The last couple seconds are actually computer rendered with the last frame repeating.
Fishing
(3 seconds)This one is not mine, it was animated by my friend Alicia
Basketball STOMP!
(5 seconds)This one is not mine, it was animated by my friend Nick
*Medium: Miscellaneous*
The mediums are listed with each title.A Man Blinking
(Crayon / paper)
(9 seconds)This was just an experiment, as I noticed a lot of animation simply didn't draw each frame new over and over again, they sometimes used old 'cells' to save on the production (I guess). This one is just 4 sheets of paper used over and over again to make this 9 second short.
The Boy
(construction paper)
(5 seconds)An attempt to do what Matt Stone and Trey Parker did when they first made South Park. I premade a limited set of faces and used them in this short.
The Crawling Man
(clay)
(9 seconds)This was an unfinished art project, when my camera started to show signs of wear. It became undependable, shutting off and not turning on again for some time. I never got to finish this project, but it was gonna have that guy, from different angles, slowly start to transform into something else...
A Dan Cat
(marker and paper)
(5 seconds)The explanation behind what a 'Dan Cat' is is kinda simple. Dan got an 'A' on an art assignment for drawing the exact same picture, which made a lot of students upset who spent hours making really detailed pictures and got the same grade. This was my tribute to 'The Dan Cat'.
Dashiki African Safari
(marker and paper)
(3 seconds)I didn't do this one, my classmates did. Not sure who, exactly. Could've been Mitch, Nick, Dustin, and Jeff. They were shooting the opening credits for our English project, but I scrapped it and redid it because the lion runs in front of the title before you could read the final product. I do like how they made the lion jump at the camera.
Dashiki African Safari (Final)
(marker and paper)
(3 seconds)The opening title as I made it.
The Figures
(pipecleaners, etc.)
(6 seconds)I had big plans for these guys. I was gonna form a whole show around them, and they were gonna be the central characters. But, it never fleshed out, they were too difficult to move around or maintain. In the end, I wish they had worked out more. Oh well.
Felt Creature
(felt)
(10 seconds)I experimented with some felt to see how well this would work, but it proved to be kinda hard to move around. The piece was originally planned to be longer, but it never came to be shortly after it was started.
Incomplete Brick Film
(lego)
(6 seconds)I never finished this one, it's what's considered a 'Brick Film', which there are hundreds on the internet.
Stay tuned for my collection of favorite Brick Films....Love
(magnets)
(19 seconds)I liked this short. It was another experiment with a different medium which I didn't like it too well. And I was hardcore messing with the lighting. But this is one of the few ones I did that ended on a lighter note. No one dies, there's just love.
The Wireman
(wire and duct tape)
(18 seconds)This was an experimental piece I did in art class. I wanted to try animating a series of wires wrapped in duct tape. However, the process proved to be harder to do once it was started. The main flaw, looking back, was that both feet were planted on the board.
Lion Attacks Monkey
(stuffed animals)
(11 seconds)This one was not done by me, it was done by my friend's Mitch and Dustin
Nick Attacks Lion
(stuffed animals)
(8 seconds)This one was not done by me, it was done by my friends Mitch and Nick (Nick is the one who bites the lion)