The Dance

This is a short film I made learning how to create concepts. We couldn't use sound and I thought it would be a great idea where sound would be the focus almost like it was necessary but yet the piece works without it. Starring my sister Kellee' Fuller who is now in New York City to become a Broadway star!

Argle Bargle's Fantastical Circus!

So this piece transformed into something I couldn't have imagined.

I wanted it to have like a coloring book look to it. I was pressed for time due to procrastination so a lot of it was very stiff and had a lot of editing issues. But I liked the idea. So when we had to do a final piece I created a story for it and added the main character Mindy Bargle. This was the original sketch I had for her.

She started out as a country bumpkin in a 1930's-1940's circus. Finally old enough to participate in her fathers circus she tries to put on a show, but due to the Depression the circus didn't have enough money. I really liked the story but the style could be fixed. I didn't want that coloring book look anymore. So I started thinking about the sort of retro futuristic style like the Jetsons and began looking up some references. I also looked at some old circus posters from that time and began to study the color scheme. 

I took that style and the muted and limited color palette of the posters to make this new concept drawing of Mindy, which was a success.

Afterwords I began redesigning all the characters in the same style. 

Lion tamer and Lion

Clown siblings Martha and Marcus

Elephants (Rory, Rosie, and Jack) and the acrobats became the Elephant Showgirls (Elle. Stelle, and Beth)

And the Ringmaster Mr. Argle Bargle and his daughter Mindy. Finally I completed my concept, did a storyboard, and kicked out an animation to be proud of.

Pepe le Mime and Ellie the Elephant

The first time using After Effects as an animation tool

Paint Sample Stop Motion

A stop motion piece I created

Music is Theme for Harold var 2 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Ball Bouncing Exercise

Practice focusing on timing and spacing by bouncing a ball. Drawn by hand an edited and refined in Toom Boom Animation Pro. 

Character Designs

This was our first character design exercise today. Our teacher drew an adjective, a verb, and a noun and we got to draw in Photoshop whatever came to our wonderful and inventive imaginations in a little over ten minutes.

Happily Sweating Moon

Enthusiastic Screaming Hell