This animation showreel is a small showcase of my 2D animation capabilities. My animations have won various awards and have been featured on local television stations in the Houston area. Some of the animations shown were made for commercial purposes, others for personal projects. Both were added to display a wider range of animation styles that I can do for clientele.

Symphonic Tower Defense is a solid flash game created by Jon Sandness and myself. Using both Flash and Photoshop, I animated all the effects and designed the layout of the game. It's a tower-defense that revolves around the music playing at the time. We started off planning to use one ridiculously long song, but over time we realized that single short levels were way more fun. Each tower type gets a boost from a particular instrument of the song. The menus were inspired by music games like Dance Dance Revolution and the actual gameplay area uses a lot of musical elements. Some of our most enthusiastic evangelists are musicians who really appreciated [...]

This project was about recreating a movie title sequence. The song, "Opera of the Frogs" by e-d was one that I had DYING to animate for almost eight years. This was my strongest opportunity. I watched Coraline just once and took notes of important characters and plot elements that I could abstract. I wanted to emphasize Coraline's tomboy personality. I make her run instead of walk and animate her hopping in puddles. She's a curious one who explores, ignoring danger along the way. The font was probably the most difficult final decision to make.

With the purpose of proposing an alternative to paper usage in schools, firstly I needed to emphasize the drastic effect it has on the environment in its current standing. This was done as a graphic design project, but also as a pitch to the Aggie Green Fund for a potential grant. The project was broken into three parts, each initiated by the phrase "Did You Know?" Part one is about highlighting the problem, so it has a red and yellow colorscheme. Part two details the destruction occurring to nature, so the green colors work well here. Part three talks about why nature needs to be preserved, so a comforting blue and pink [...]

Derpasaurus Rex was a simple idea. An obliviously overenthusiastic dinosaur that means well, but crushes all in its path. Working with Noah Scammon for writing and voice acting, I spent some time figuring out what style I wanted to work with. We wanted the dinosaur to be an outcast, so he's shaded and fully colored which contrasts with the world's simple and sloppy coloring. Essentially, we started writing a basic scenario like going to the doctors and then tossed in a hyperactive talking dinosaur and thought, "What could possibly go wrong?"It's a silly short animation created purely for our own entertainment.