Here's all the animation that I did while attending CalArts.  Click on the images to be taken to the films.

My school films are in various unfinished stages.  I could barely afford to go to this school, and because I had to work and go to school at the same time I wasn't able to give the films my total devotion.   I keep hoping I'll have the time to finish them, but the years just keep slipping by, and it's an incredible time committment. So who knows.

"The Still Life"

"Still Life" is a two minute film.  Probably because it was my first film in school, this film is the most complete; although there are still two or three scenes that are not animated, simply held drawings.

See the 3d animation section for that.

I was working and going to school, so I didn't have any time to do a film.  But, I do have two short things that I put in the year-end show.  The first one is some storyboards that my husband did, and I animated them.  The second one is a bit of an in-joke.

During the school year we were working on a tough assignment.  A Disney character doing a line of dialogue from "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."  After struggling with it for a week or two, I made the decision to start over from scratch.  But before I threw out the previous version I decided to do a fun little pencil test.  So I put that together with something I had animated for Vortex Media Arts, and submitted that for my yearly final.  I didn't flunk, but I am a bit disappointed that I had to work while going to school.

The horse and rider animation is for a Madeline game that I can't remember the name of.

"Say It with Flowers"

This is my senior, fourth year film.  This was an extremely difficult year for me...I could not afford to attend two semesters, so I had to earn all of the remaining credits for my degree in a single semester.  I had to cram a year's worth (32 units) of 'critical studies' work in one semester to make enough credits to get a real degree, and not some 'certificate'.

I also had a real problem deciding on a story for the required thesis film.  All the way up until early March I was trying to get motivated and animate a story called "The Fox and the Wolf", but it was awkward and lame.

Finally, in early April I went for a pleasant spring hike, and I came up with this quick idea.  It was cute, happy, entertaining, and best of all...SHORT!  Within a week I had layouts, storyboarded the 20 scenes and was animating like a fiend, but of course, to try and animate a 2 minute film in a month isn't being realistic.  What you see is hardly anything more than the most basic of staging poses on storyboards set to a quickly cobbled-together bit of  music.