The Film Strip
One of the great things about Intro to Animation Spring 2011 was how my animator mentor, Scott Hall, always encouraged us to expand our...
Once Upon A Time
This was a multi-plane camera sequence I originally made for the Animation Workshop 2014 film, “Phillo and Willow”. Three backgrounds...


Those Were The Days
This was our last day together as a group in Animation Workshop 2014. I loved every minute of that class and I enjoyed working with...
California Dreamin
"California Dreamin", based on my favorite song by The Mamas & the Papas, was to have been my next animated short film following "All Art...


Bedtime
This is the scene with Granny sleeping in bed just before she gets up to sleepwalk in the room. Liz Rodriguez and I set up the scene with...
An Artist's Line
If there was one fault that Toon Boom Studio has it would have to be with its selection of pens. Since the software is a vector program...
What Could Have Been
In the 1980’s the Japanese animation powerhouse TMS (Tokyo Movie Shinsha) had started work on an ambitious feature film that would...
Did I Kill the Dodo Bird?
This is a slightly different version of the Dodo Bird’s fall from the one that was ultimately used in the final version. In the...


To Grandmother's House We Go
I worked on "The Sandman" project back in Animation Workshop Spring 2013 with Liz Rodriquez, who created the storyline for the film. She...


Ralph and the Mysterious Stranger
As deep as the ideas explored in “The Illusion of Life” were, there were also very surreal ideas brainstormed during the conceptual phase...