Here’s my final project for Will Vinton’s Stop-Motion Animation class at Portland’s NW Film center.
We were given several audio files to choose from, which we then used to build a story around. I chose this quote from the Godfather, which I supplemented with some extra dialogue (can you nerds out there tell me what it’s from?).

Hello visitors,

I’m sorry for the lack of updates (far more than you are, I’m sure) but I am currently traveling in SE Asia with my wife, Courtney. I would love to post recent projects (working with Studio.Pebble (see below), Bloodtoe, at Bent Image Lab and other small projects) but with moving out of our place and getting ready to go… well, hopefully soon then. We’ll see how the internet situation works out.

-R

Update: You can see a work-in-progress version at Aaron Wong’s (DP, Cinematographer) Vimeo.

Currently I am working with Studio.Pebble as an animator and visual-effects artist on a stop-motion commercial for local clothing company Oh-Buggy. Here’s a shot of the puppet and set…

The WIP version will be screening at the Baghdad: 03/03/2011 at 09:00 PM.

Here’s my second submission to the NOTLD:R Project. The DVDs of the finished project will be shipping soon. See my other piece here.

I had always been interested in challenging myself to make a 3D figure move around in a 2D space (somewhat) believably, and I hope I achieved that in this short piece.

The making of it utilized model-making, green-screen/compositing, and the creation of 2D backgrounds.

An animated music video made in 2004-5 for the musical group Health & Beauty.

Here is the original scene from the film Night of the Living Dead compared to my version.

Full info on the Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated Project here: www.notldr.com