Animation

Stop Motion Animation

Conceptual Model Making

I worked on my own interpretation of Count Olaf's house from Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events as a model making project. John Dexter (who was Supervising Art Director on the movie) happened to be my teacher for the model making class. How cool is that!? It was my first time dealing with such complex, organic shapes, but the process went nicely. Everything was made from scratch since the design is so stylized. Definitely a challenge project but I think it turned out well.

Stop Motion Short: The Maestro

A big headed (figuratively and literally) fox conductor and a practical, unassuming quail assistant star in this story of an orchestration piece gone wonky. The creation of this film has been an outstanding adventure and solidified my love for this art form! Overall, this project was one of the more challenging ones I've tackled as I'm new to the stop motion world. But I had excellent instruction and guidance from Heather Collins and Stephanie James. This project allowed me to put on all "hats" of animation: fabricator, animator, DP, Grip, Gaffer, Sound Designer. I used Dragon Frame for capturing pictures and Audacity for sound composing.

The Maestro: Fabrication Process

Along the way I decided to make changes with both characters from their initial conception to what ultimately was fabricated. The basics of what I learned in class for armatures was applied (steel and aluminum substructure lashed together with thread) and to flesh out and smooth the characters I used foam and athletic tape. Characters were felted and clothes were sewed together using costume swatches I had laying around. Balloon latex for hands and even a bit of hairspray to tame down the fox's wig.

Stop Motion Animation

This is one of my earliest stop motion pieces where I practice the basics: animating and transforming on a loop using clay. I experimented with timing, dynamics and character expression. This piece is called "the curious snake."

Fabrication

I made these props when I was interning at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the company responsible for SuperMansion on Hulu. The moving flat cart was used in Season 3, episode 27 "Illiga Their Own" which is a spoof on IKEA. The pencils and pens we made as additional props for future set dressing of episodes. I learned after this experience that I LOVED making stop motion props.

2D Animation

These are character looks for the animated pilot the Killmores. I'm working with the mastermind behind the project, Danielle Hawkes, on developing these characters, taking them from the written stage and translating them visually. The world we're creating is dark, twisted, wacky and different. The best description for the animation is a mashup of Adam's Family, Beetlejuice, American Dad with a sprinkling of AdventureTime.

*Character Designs and sketches by Tatiana Kuilanoff.
*Color and Clean-up by Yuna Cheong.

Concept design sketches of main locations for the Killmores.

What's New?

Stop Motion Animation Short Film

Originally starting as a side project, I've taken a story my buddy Brian Hibbert wrote for me called "The Kite." It's about a boy and his imaginative adventures with his mischievous kite.

The portion I'm developing for my stop motion piece deals with a boy playing chess with Death at the beach.

I'll be focusing more on set development and human puppets this time around.