BREAKING AND EXITING

“Breaking and Exiting” (2023) was my capstone project for my final year of university at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). It follows burglars Kara and Doug as they (attempt to) loot a house before the homeowner gets home. It is entirely 2D animated in Krita, and told entirely without words.

Making of “Breaking and Exiting”

My creative process and thoughts when making “Breaking and Exiting” mostly had to do with how I could tell the story without words. I chose to do it this way because it would train my animation and storytelling skills.

ABSENT

“Absent” was an animation I created at the Auckland University of Technology in 2022. It is based off audio from an interview with my mother, a high school teacher and dean, as she recounts an occasion on which she visited the home of a student who had been performing poorly and not showing up to school. The main theme of the animation is “Don’t judge people based only on what you see - you don’t know what’s really going on in their lives”. The 2D elements were created using Krita, while the 3D elements were sculpted in Maya, textured in Procreate, then re-imported into Maya and rendered there.

MY SHOWREEL

‘The Wizard Books’ Advetisement

This was an animated advertisement for The Wizard Books by Maurice Cooper. It took one month to make, coming in at 90 seconds long.

2023 internship video (Cybersmarties)

In my last year of university I did this animation for an internship (each student was required to do either and internship or an industry report) with the children’s social media website Cybersmarties. The purpose of it was to teach children how to deal with having had a falling-out with a friend - the bubbles are blank and it has no soundtrack because Cybersmarties wanted to do the localization themselves for each country that they operate in.