Project 1 / The Octa-Pot Machine

Once upon a time there was an Octa-Pot Machine. It was powered by an electric outlet. The moment it turned on, it woke up little circular birds inside the Octa-Pot. This caused the Octa-Pot to fall and release the birds into the open. The Octa-Pot realizes this and therefore acts as vacuum-sucking device that essentially sucks back the little birdies. Though, one bird tries to run away, he proves unsuccessful in the end. Poor Birds. They thought they could outrun it, but they were oh so wrong. Thoughts of an octopus and a gumball machine inspired this short story. The End.

Project 2 / Don?t Poke the Fat

The concept behind this is the deconstruction of the fictional anatomy of a fat man through a series of pokes. Each poke serves as the man losing an important layer of his body. In the end it comes down to just his stomach, and we discover the reasons that made him fat in the first place. Eventually the fat man is stripped beyond the point of bare-naked so he decides to act as a vacuum and suck back everything that was taken from him. This explores the ?rebuilding? of his body back to its original shape: fat and round.

Project 3 / Linear Chaos

Inspired by a dream of the past, this is an abstract interpretation of a minimalist execution for chaos and anxiety. The scene starts out simply with one horizontal black line. It grows as the line doubles, triples, and multiplies. The line can symbolize anything depending on personÕs interpretation. My goal was to convey this asymmetrical pattern of lines as the scene progresses. The audio is supposed to stand as a parallel supporting the progression of lines and chaos emanating from it. I intended each sound, each stroke, each thickness and each movement to essentially evoke a certain sense of anxiety and fear despite its abstract quality.

Project 4 / In Memoriam

How many people in a day take the time to read the Obituary section of the newspaper? How many people really care? This type sketch is meant to mimic the traditional typewriting style for typing and printing the obituary section that not many people really pay attention to. I wanted to add a slight dark humor/twist by distracting the audience with serious, grave, sarcastic, and slightly humorous obituaries from the past (based on real account too!), and have a final say at the end, which is something that they pay the least attention to: the obituary column writer, the forgotten one. In a more conceptual and deeper metaphoric parallel, because this is still a type project, I wanted to make the analogy of using the idea of the unnoticed yet functional obituary column writer to symbolically represent the idea of what typography means to me: invisible yet still functional that it successfully communicate its message across. In this animation, the dead obituary column writer symbolically represents how there is so much bad typography around us? ironically including the usual typography set for the obituary section of the newspaper.

Final Project / When your Gum Takes Over

This animation explores the cartoony karmic fate of a chewing gum who has come to life and died yet againÉ tragic. Such is the life of a gum monster.