Animations

Ori is a young Black Bird, lost in the woods and its starting to get dark. He doesn't know his way yet without his mother but he lost sight of her.
Ori wonders the woods hearing strange noises but doesn't know where to hide. Soon, he gives up on finding his mother, and sadly waits in a pile of leaves wondering what he should do next.

This short film was my first attempt at animation beyond a basic flip book level animation test. I knew i wanted to shoot the film in a 3D set but didn't want Ori's character to be lost by making him into a 3 dimensional object comparatively to my drawings of him. So I worked around that dilemma by drawing and cutting out each frame of Ori's movements and keeping him 2D. I used hand made woolen pompoms for the grass which allowed me to wedge Ori between them to keep him standing.
The whole film was shot in a single day with no cuts or editing bar the sound design. It's still one of my favourite project outcomes to this day.

Shadow Knight was a commissioned project by musician Reinen in 2020. Reinen had seen my shadow puppet of the story of the Bakunawa and wanted something similar to fit her music video.

After some talking about the song and what atmosphere was wanted I got to work!

Using a light board, tissue paper and card I animated the meeting and bonding of woman and cat as reflected in Reinens song. It's a phsychadelic trip of a music video to say the least with loads of different visual elements and effects.

You can see my shadow puppet animation scattered throughout the music video

TV Head is a traditional animation I made for a university projects surrounding trauma and grief.
I based it on my experience with the loss of my father and the both emotional and physical turmoil of the following years, anger, sadness, pain both residual and self inflicted, seizures, panic attacks and so on. While it was a very short project it was very emotionally draining.

I made the backgrounds by washing watercolors on multiple pages then photocopying them multiple times so the background would have a boiling effect.
The drawings themselves are just with black marker, and when the screen shatters i used a paper cut out to save time and materials .

I would have liked to play around with sounds in this project to make the video even more disorientating and overwhelming to the viewer but due to time constraints I wasn't able to.

Moon Eater was the animation I created for my first year final major project. It's based on the story of the Bakunawa in Filipino Mythology. A dragon who swallowed the moons. I tried to combine influences of Asian shadow puppetry, old silent movies and classic fairytale writing.

This animation was originally pitched to be only one minute but it ended up being over 5 due to things like wanting to keep as close to the original stories as I could and wanting to make sure the viewer truly gets invested in the full plot and all the characters and wanting to know how it ends.

While there were some technical difficulties throughout and there are many things I'd love to change and fix now I was and still am proud of how much work I put into the project and animation as a whole.