Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Doorpost Film Festival

My film, ESCAPE, was accepted into the Doorpost Film Festival!!!

If selected as one of the top ten, the Doorpost gives $30k to each director to produce another short film before the middle of August this year. So get voting!!!

You must register to vote. It takes less than 60 seconds. -> http://www.thedoorpost.com/register/

You can check out a higher resolution version here: http://www.thedoorpost.com/freedom/film/Escape

or this smaller one below:


Monday, March 23, 2009

SUMMER/WINTER WORK PT.2

More summer/winter '08 work below...


These 30 second commercial spots were created to promote the Discovery Channel's new show - How Stuff Works. HSW originally began as a website, it was then bought by Discovery, and now it's a show!

Here are two of the four spots I animated:

LASIK:



MACHINE GUN:




ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY
http://www.animationblock.com/

The Animation Block Party is a huge animation festival in Brooklyn, NY. This spot was played before the screening of the festival's different films. Dave Schlafman was approached to produce this spot and he asked me if I wanted to work on it. He gave me all the characters and I took care of the rest. I love short projects like these...

*Apple's text speak was used for some of the voices





I was approached by a friend to create a short promotional video for his long time buddy's company: Give Something Back. This is a project that made me feel great to work on. GSB is a business supply company, like Staples, except that they began with an unusual business model: they give all of their after tax profits to charity, just like Newman's Own. How cool is that? I'm always inspired to hear about businesses that are concerned with more than just the bottom line. Check out the video and find out how they operate.

Jen Blicharz created the fantastic office and warehouse workers and Dan Flynn did the cool little paper animation you see at the beginning and end. I had a ton of fun on this project...