You Complete Me

Never thought this day would come, but my thesis is FINISHED. I am presenting it to my advisors this Friday back at UCLA, and then *crossing fingers* I will officially receive my Masters. (I walked in graduation over a year ago - pregnant with Olive - but never received my actual diploma because I hadn't turned in my final film.)

This labor of love was inspired by my difficult munchkin, whom my hubby and I love and adore, but struggled dearly to appease during her first months in this world. All characters and props were fabricated from the Amazon cardboard boxes her baby gear arrived in. Pieces were then scanned and manipulated in After Effects and Final Cut. (I had initially hoped to shoot them in stop-motion under a down-shooter camera, but ended up having to learn After Effects when I realized the project would be more feasible if made that way.)

While the short is minimally-animated, spastically-timed, and probably leaves you thinking, "Wahhh? That's it?!?" I am still proud to have, simply, finished. It wasn't easy making time in my packed child-rearing day to grind this out. And it wasn't easy uploading this film online for the whole world to see. (Feeling kinda' naked.)

I hope you like it.

P.S. Thank you, Alexis and Jeff, for making this possible. I could not have pulled this off without you two!!!

Gradumacation

Dear all, yesterday, I gradumacated from UCLA with my MFA from the School of Theater Film and Television. It took me a while, but I made it. Yay me :)

At Last

2010's UCLA Festival of Animation aka "Prom" has officially come to a close. And I'm so very happy to say that the blood, sweat and tears truly paid off :)

More about the incredibly memorable day to come...

Photo: SOME of the talented animators of UCLA. An adorable bunch. And yes, they really are as fun as they look in photo! (I'm in the bottom shot with one of my workshop besties, Alexis...muah-haha.)

Festival of Animation 2010

Imma be rocking like this... WHAT?!

Festival of Animation 2010. June 5th. Two showings. @ UCLA. For a ridiculously good time, RSVP (for free) HERE. More info to come...

Paper art by Julia Guther.

Haikunimation

Watch highly irreverant animation created by Nick and Kevin for "Falling Lizard 2010" HERE. Topic of the year: FAIL. The boys animated one of my haikus. Perhaps you can guess which one it is?

Inspired

My favorite 2nd year film shown last year was that of classmate Sijia Luo. Her film, "Kidnap" was created in Flash. Strange and adorable. Watch it here :)