Moe's on a brochure!

Last week USC held a ceremony dedicated the newly named Jeffery Katzenburg center for animation. Mr. Katzenburg, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Speilburg were all present and each gave a little speech. Much to my surprise Moe made an appearance too. He was all over the banners and brochures. I just plain lucked out here, I happened to be in the cubes when the guy was collecting artwork for the banners. It was still cool to see Moe amongst all the awesome USC work though!

Moe is in a fest!

Moe will be making his festival debut in the Long Day Short Film Fest June 21 in Alameda, CA!

Moe's Trailer

The official trailer for Moe's Musical Morning, my first year MFA film.

Rhythms and Visions

This footage was shot at the Rhythms and Visions event at USC in April. The animation was projected opposite to the main event, the musical and video collective D-FUSE. Some of their images can be see reflected on the wall. The Animation was on loop throughout the entire night.

Moe's Musical Morning

Lip Synch Exercise

Here is my final project for stop motion class, a lip synch exercise. I wanted to try out using replacement mouths (for Egg) and a Flapping 'Muppet-style' mouth (for Bird).

Miss the Misery

Miss the Misery finally made it's online debut last week. I was fortunate enough to volunteer on this Foo Fighters video back in March. The animation director was Musa Brooker, stop motion extraordinaire. I only volunteered for a day, but I did get to operate the camera for the camera move at 2:59! (Which involved being instructed to turn a dial at minute increments). Still, Foo Fighters were childhood heros of mine, Big Me was the first song I ever learned on guitar, and this was a really awesome experience!

Video was directed by Pete Levin