The video is a mixture of live action and animated sequences that were done in a really unorthodox way. (It took four cups of coffee and a brain cramp for me to visualize the first time around.) The biggest challenge was creating transitions between the two that would look natural within the flow of the video and would feel like the animations are part of the story.

To create the animation, each of the panels is drawn on a folded series of pages which the actor unfolds as they go along in a specifically choreographed order. Opening and closing the panels creates the illusion of motion. We brainstormed everything from post-it flipbooks to paper dolls and some of the ideas show up in the final piece. Take a look below and please share!

Extra thanks go out to Magda for hooking up the gig, miss Eunmi for late-night “Drawing 101: Perspective” lessons and letting me borrow her lightbox, Aaron for getting brain cramps with me, and Ross for being awesome to work with but mostly for replacing my erasers.

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2004/5. It’s an oldie but goodie. Vector image made with Illustrator.

2008. Limited Edition Silkscreen print. 18×24, edition of 78 with 10 copper variants.

2009. Limited Edition Silkscreen Print. 89 Regular edition, 20 each of Red and White variants.

2008. This series of posters was designed for the quarterly audio-video-motion show at the UCLA Design | Media Arts department.

2006. Full vector image created in Illustrator.

.dance. 2006 Sketch done on toned paper, color in Photoshop. Turned into my first limited edition silkscreen print in 2007. Regular edition of 67, White Dress variant of 5. Sold Out.

.sivette. 2005 Traditional lines, digital color. Character (c) Ross Campbell