Awkward little guys (and a duck)

I made this video for a Flash class I took fall semester. My teacher took all our characters and put them all together into one video. Here are my little guys. I made two funny little purple guys who have an awkward moment while a duck wearing a wig walks past. I like it because it’s silly and cute but also kind of real because everybody has those awkward moments all the time, or at least I know I do.

Type animation

Our last assignment for Typography was to make an animation featuring type. We were supposed to use Photoshop, not Flash, which made the assignment a bit more difficult because I’m much more familiar with Flash and I think it’s just an easier program to use for animation (because that’s what it’s made for…). Once I started doing it, it wasn’t so bad, though. The basic principles of animation are the same no matter what program you’re using.

I decided to make a holiday-themed animation. Here it is:

Triangles

I took a Flash class last semester. This was the first assignment, we were just supposed to make a simple Flash animation. I wanted it to have a weird sort of rhythm to the way the objects move in it. The .swf of it loops, but I couldn’t upload it that way.

Letter collage

This was a project we did in Typography class. We created a collage of letters, then selected a small section of that to recreate in Illustrator and add color. We were supposed to have three different versions of it. Here are mine:

Owl surgery

Today I bought a really cute owl stuffed animal/pillow but when I was ripping off the tag I accidentally ripped open some of his seams! Now, I’m not very good at sewing but I had a needle and some thread left over from an art project, and I figured whatever I did would look better than a big hole with stuffing coming out.

Here’s the patient:

And here he is all stitched up:

Maybe not the best sewing job in the world, but it does the job (and looks kinda cute too, I think).