Jalloo Festival, 1st Place 3D Animation

Flap! wins the best 3D animation award in the 2016 Jalloo Animation and Game festival in New Brunswick, Canada.

http://jalloo.net/Jalloo16/default.html

 

Reedy River Film Festival

Clemson animation projects, Flap! and Save Our Bees, were screened at the Reedy River Film Festival in Greenville, SC.  Flap! won the Best Animation award.

Rail Road Bill Project

Here’s a sneak peak into my latest animation short animation film, Rail Road Bill.

The song is a traditional song which I arranged, performed guitar, vocals, and back up.  Richard P. Elliott did the lead guitar and Greg Barfield did the back up vocals, jug, spoon and other stuff.

Save Our Bees

 

Russian Premiere at the Eco Cup in late Feb

http://www.ecocup.ru/en

 

Bee’s will be having its European premiere at the Green Film Fest in Belgrade!

http://www.greenfest.rs/

Bee’s screening in NYC at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, for the Animation Block Party Festival!

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Friday, 2pm July 31th at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Save Our Bees had its premiere at the Blue Plum Animation Festival at East Tennessee State…

This is clip from an animation that will be part of the save the bee campaign.  I plan on developing a series of shorts, games and other media to help promote the value and preservation of such an important critter in our ecosystem.  I hope to inspire and help educate our next generation in helping to create a healthy and vibrant world that can sustain all forms of life.

Lake Ouentirok (Simcoe) Hamilton Film Festival, Nov 7th 2015

 

 

Hamilton International Film Festival will be screening my film Saturday Nov 7th!

My film had it’s international premiere at the Haida Gwaii Film Festival this March at the Haida Queen Charlotte Skidegate Island located in the British Columbia Archipelago.  I am quite honored to have a film world premiere at a First Nations screening.  I lived in the Pacific Northwest for some time and have a strong connection to the environment.  So I am very pleased to have had the film screened in such a wonderful place.  I hope to return at one point and partake in this great festival.

In addition to the B.C. screening, the Toronto Short Film Festival screened the film March 20th at the Carleton Theatre next the Maple Leaf Gardens in Downtown Toronto…

 

Lake Ouentironk, Huron Wyandot for ‘Beautiful Waters’, or Lake Simcoe as it is know today, is a large fresh water lake north of Toronto, Ontario.  This film explores the lake in it’s natural habitat before Samuel de Champlain visited the area over 400 years ago.  Lake Ouentrionk is an animated landscape that incorporates traditional water color painting to create a vibrant and moving picture to capture the various seasons as well as the fluid changes of water, land and sky of this wonderful area.

Save Our Bees in the class room

The film was part of an art class project based on the important role bees play in our ecosystem.

Happy Holidays

This is an animated video I did as part of CNN’s 12 days of Christmas.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.  For some reason, animation and holidays go together pretty naturally.  Maybe because there are not too many partridges in pear trees in the real world.  My colleague Bruno DeGazio did the music and we both sang (very badly) in his recording studio.

River Run Screening Saturday 10am

http://2014.riverrunfilm.com/films/saturday-morning-cartoons-big-bang-boom

Obama and Putin, one on one

Kickin’ Mule

Kickin’ Mule will have its East Coast Premiere at the River Run International Film Festival…

This is a premiere film festival in the southeastern US and I am excited to be part of the festival since it is a perfect venue for my film as it is based conceptually in this region.

Kickin’ Mule had its premiere at the St. Louis International Film Festival at the Tivoli Theatre in November.

This is a shot from an animation film that celebrates the old time music of Frank Lee and Adam Tanner.  I was inspired by cutout silhouette animation and the quilt tradition of the Appalachian region.  Frank and Adam have several other traditional fiddle and banjo tunes that I would like to further explore with other animation methods, traditional and modern.

Lake Simcoe Pines

This is a new film project based on my landscape sketching I have been doing around Lake Simcoe…

I will doing a series of these and weave them into a montage…

Demo Reel retrospective

A highlight of my independent work…

Here are some of the highlights:

• MTV’s Cartoon Sushi
• CNN 12 Days of Christmas
• $100,000 South Carolina Film Grant
• 2 films in the 1999 CalArts Producers Show
• Spike and Mike
• Tech TV
• IFC
• PBS

Time lapse sketching

This is from my ipad sketch series where I go out and draw on location.  Sketchbook Pro is an app for the ipad where now you can record the process which is something I find very useful in teaching others and also in documenting my technique.  As a film maker and landscape artist I find that I bridge two distinct skills but I hope to navigate through both as I truly enjoy both.

Lion King Interactive Storybook

These are a few clips of animation that I did way back in 1996 for Disney Interactive and their Interactive CD-ROM title “the Lion King”.

Obama’s Fiscal Cliff