Reel Breakdown

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Everything from 0:00-0:25 in my reel is 100% designed, animated, and composited by me. The first 4 shots in the reel are various abstract animation exercises that I've done over the years. Some sections of these animations show up later in the reel as well. I’ll skip over them in the breakdown since we’re seeing them in full here.

The character work seen at 0:13-0:20 is all visual development for a larger personal project I've been working on in my spare time. You can see more visuals from that project here.

This shot here at 0:25 is for Spotify: Anchor Podcasts. Designed by both me and Yuki Yamada during my time at Oddfellows, and animated/composited by me. The microphone seen in this shot was actually my own microphone at the time. We decided during animation that we wanted the microphone to have a bit more "depth" but we didn't have the bandwidth for a 3D render. I realized my own mic looked similar enough so I shot it from a few different angles and we ended up with a nice rotation.

Here is a link to the full project - Spotify - Anchor Podcast Subsriptions

This shot at 0:28 is for Adobe Foundations - Color. Designed by Yuki Yamada, and animated/composited by me at Oddfellows.

Here is a link to the full project - https://oddfellows.tv/adobe-color/

This shot at 0:35 is for Savage x Fenty Vol. 4: Oasis at Oddfellows.

Designed and illustrated by Joyce Liu.

Cel animation by Bishoy Gendi.

Color, lighting, and animation/compositing by me.

My job was to bring the shot to life by adding color and lighting. I created the subtle glow and sparkle on the water drops, and I also animated the golden waves coming up from the bottom of the frame, as well as the camera move.

Here is a link to the full project - https://oddfellows.tv/savagexfenty/

This shot here at 0:38 is again for Spotify: Anchor Podcasts. Designed by Yuki Yamada, and animated/composited by me at Oddfellows.

Here is a link to the full project - Spotify - Anchor Podcast Subsriptions

This shot at 0:42 is for Adobe Foundations - Color. Designed by Fede Reano, and animated/composited by me at Oddfellows.

Here is a link to the full project - https://oddfellows.tv/adobe-color/

This shot at 0:45 is another personal abstract animation exercise designed and animated by me.

This shot at 0:47 is for Adobe Foundations - Layout. Designed by Yuki Yamada, and animated/composited by me at Oddfellows. I’ve also included a gif here for the other half of this shot that I couldn’t fit into the reel. It’s one of my favorite projects.

Here is a link to the full project - https://oddfellows.tv/adobe-layout/

This shot at 0:49 is for Adobe Live.

Designed and illustrated by Amy Sun.

Bird and flower animation by Katherine Pryor.

Animation and compositing by me.

This project was a lot of fun to collaborate on. Since I was animating all of the shapes on 1s in after effects, and our cel artist was animating the bird on 2s, I thought it would be nice to add an opacity change on every other frame for the wings, to really add that humming bird speed to the animation. So I asked my cel artist if she could give me a separate pass for the wings. The result is subtle but so nice!

Here is a link to this project out in the wild - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNu8nFoV_Ig

This shot at 0:52 is for a canceled client project. This project was still in the visual development stages when it was canceled, but everything was designed, animated, and composited by me.

You can view more visuals from this project here.

The character work seen at 0:55 is again visual development for a larger personal project I've been working on in my spare time. You can see more visuals from that project here.

These shots at 0:58 are for Savage x Fenty Vol. 4: Oasis at Oddfellows.

Designed and illustrated by Joyce Liu and Caroline Choi.

Cel animation by Bishoy Gendi, David Borrull, and Lewis Barr.

Color, lighting, and animation/compositing by me.

My job was to bring these shots to life by adding color and lighting. I also animated the orb that shoots into the sky with the light trail behind it, and all the camera moves.

Here is a link to the full project - https://oddfellows.tv/savagexfenty/

This shots at 1:03 is for TedXSydney at Oddfellows.

Designed and illustrated by Nicole Stafford.

Cel animation by Nicole Stafford.

Color, lighting, effects animation, and compositing by me.

My job was to bring this shot to life by adding in colors, gradients, lighting, and a ton of blur. This project was a ton of fun from a problem-solving perspective. It was a small team, with me and my designer/cel artist Nicole being the only 2 artists on the project for a good portion of it. We ended up developing a system that used a combination of color, luma, and alpha data to inform saturation, hue, brightness, and amount of blur. All of the final colors, shadows, blurs, and lighting effects seen in the final product were done by me in after effects, with the cel artist providing separate passes broken up by color to adhere to the compositing system I set up.

Full project here, with Oddfellows' portion starting at 1:16 - https://vimeo.com/499161123

The remainder of the reel is made up of one more personal work (the potted plant) and one more shot from both TedXSydney and Savage x Fenty Vol. 4: Oasis. The work I did and other credits in these last 2 shots is the same as previously laid out above.

Thanks for reading!