Music credit: "Free to Use 8" by Monplaisir
LET'S GET TO IT! (2023)
Moldable plastic, embroidery floss, polyester and alpaca yarn, air-dry clay, acrylic paint, alcohol ink, glass beads, thread, felt
Responsible for all aspects
Software used: Dragonframe
YIKES! (2023)
Oven-bake clay, granite texture spray paint, fleece
Responsible for all aspects
Software used: Dragonframe
Breaking! (2022)
Moldable plastic, embroidery floss, polyester and alpaca yarn, air-dry clay, acrylic paint, alcohol ink, glass beads, thread, felt
Responsible for all aspects
Software used: Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro
This piece depicts a moment of overwhelm and subsequent self-soothing. Handiwork has always been a source of joy and comfort for me, so it felt right for the puppet featured in this short to find solace and protection in the work of her own tiny clay hands. I like the idea of warm crochet keeping the cold stressors of the world at bay, even for a moment.
This house isn't gonna clean itself! (2021)
Cardboard, acrylic paint, air-dry clay, oven-bake clay, wire, watercolors, watercolor paper, drawing ink, glass beads, felt, thread, hot glue, various fabrics
Responsible for all aspects
Software used: Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro
Homemakers, parents, cleaners, and tradespeople alike labor to make life hospitable for us all, yet in our capitalist-consumerist society, in-home contributions are often dismissed, especially when the worker in question is a woman. The medium of the film reflects its message; stop motion is an incredibly labor-intensive, time-consuming process, and by manually building and animating the props, I serve as a proxy for the invisible cleaner in the scene. In post-processing, too, where I remove all traces of the rigs and supports that make my scene possible, I reproduce the censoring of a society determined to overlook and undervalue the labor that makes our society function.
Into the VizzyVerse: Flatwork (2022)
Celluloid sheets, acrylic paint, Sharpie
Responsible for character design and compositing. Contributed to animation along with Julia White.
Collaborators: Tessa de la Fuente (Vizzie painting) and Julia White (animation, background design, sound design)
Software used: Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro
This piece was created for my university's year-end departmental showreel. Working on a small group of three within a production team of fifteen, I produced a 2D cel-animated transition scene to introduce the "Flatwork" category of student projects. All the shorts portrayed a character entering a portal and retrieving a "Vizzie," the award given to exemplary student work in the department of Visualization.
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