This is the Nike commercial MoreFrames would’ve made if Nike had paid MoreFrames to make a commercial for them. And they still might. Go buy some shoes in the meantime, just to be safe.
2008
I worked on this short over a period of 6 months at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan (www.kyotoanimation.co.jp). I started from the script and covered all of the traditional animation process; from story boarding and layouts to key framing and in-betweening to coloring and backgrounds to…
The masks we put on everyday manages to change our appearance but not how we feel about ourselves. Masquerade is questioning this situation within the realms of a more literal approach.
An animated music video to accompany the Misty’s Big Adventure song of the same name. Crumpled up guy becomes everything the song tells him to be, whether he likes it or not.
This is a series of experimental animations based on making a “double image animation.” My goal was to create more than one story going at the same time using the same shapes. (one is hidden, one is more obvious) This is one of my earliest attempts to merge the ideas I create with paintings into…
Abstract Animation created for the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival (www.puntoyrayafestival.com)
“Argyle Kabuki” was a collaboration with composer Dave Merson Hess (davemh.com)
Honors:
“Argyle Kabuki” Animated Short:
Punto y Raya Festival, Spain, 2009. Selected for the “Best of Punto y Raya 2010” World Tour…
Look out for this animation to be playing in 20 countries, and 100 cities around the world in May 2010, as part of the Art by Chance festival. http://www.artbychance.org/
“Prelude to a Symphony” (in Sweeatch) is an experimental double image animation, based upon a painting I did. -Dax Norman
As you…
The Last Temptation of Crust, starring Frank Finkerton, was my senior Thesis at Ringling College of Art and Design.
Original score by composer Neil Anderson Himmelspach (spachmusic.com)
Honors:
Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Animation Festival, USA, 2009
Melbourne International Animation Festival…
“Porn on the Cob, Tale of the Carnal Kernals”
From artist Dax Norman, with original score by Dave Merson Hess, cums this riveting tale of the search for sex. Wilmington sees sex everywhere, but will he ever get some? Join us on this adventure of one man who is truly haunted, by horniness.
Coloring…
Here is a further refinement of the Double image animation idea. Music is “We Own the Sky,” by M83.
Honors:
56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
29 April – 4 May 2010
“People Suit”
This story is about Ed Gein, who fancied himself in a people suit.
help with backgrounds: Brent Lewis.
music by Clyde and Clem’s Whiskey Business, from Austin, Texas. (clydeandclem.com)
The Furry Revolt is a stop-motion animated short. The sweet looking Lou Lou Mae has a habit of torturing small animals until the decide to get their revenge. Created by Jessica Bayliss.
This is little experiment in combining live action with animation. A little thing takes me by surprise. Created by Jessica Bayliss. (music by Jon Brion – used for educational purposes only)
Two heads together, but only one brain,
yet Larry and Rachel were not quite the same.
Separate individuals, few things they shared,
but divided in the middle was how they were paired.
In the desolate American gated suburb of Artichoke Meadows, a misanthropic middle-aged critic and an annoying ten year old boy, two neighbors, decide to stay home from work for a day of R & R. Hilarity, and the awareness of a universe in which everyone is alone, ensues. Can Angus Grant and Teehan Delko…