Iris the factory worker

My favourite crazy woman!!

This project was by far my favourite one to work on. I built the puppet and set from scratch. It was so fun to build every chicken and paint the set. The combination scene has my own hand in it and a giant chicken I made to imitate the mini ones.

The Pomegranate

Paper cut-outs. Each limb was made individually and stitched together so it could be moved.

It was so fun taking my characters of a boy and his grandmother and transferring it to an alien space setting. The contrast with the very human audio made for good entertainment.

The animation was composited in layers, after being shot on a green-screen background.

Dance through the Night

Paint on glass: this was done by painting on perspex sheets on top of a green screen. My partner (Olivia Serrao) and I had to build our own little dark room so we could control the lighting. It was tricky to manage the reflectiveness of both the glass and the paint but we figured it out in the end!

After story-boarding, each frame was hand painted and then composited.

This project was for the BEAMS Art Festival, 2016.

A writer’s house

Set design: another hand built set! This one was a project specifically about set design. My partner (Erin Topfer) and I chose to make a house so we could play around with furniture building and multiple spaces.

It is the home of an obsessive writer who doesn’t have time to clean their house, hence the books and papers everywhere and food spilling out of pots.

It was so fun making miniature furniture, like the sink and oven. The tiles were individually cut out and stuck on, so lots of fiddling and lots of glue!