This page contains some of the animations I have done to develop experience with those tools.
Sea Life evolved so that most of the animated elements are pixel (i.e. paint) based rather than vector (i.e. pen) based. I really like to soft and fluid feel of this, and I am inspired to continue down this path. We shall see what comes next.
Breeze started out as a 4x6 inch post card. I was experimenting with paint versus pen (as always), and then I had more and more ideas about things I could add to an animated view. So here you have it.
Hearthwalk began, as others in this collection, as a 6x4 inch post card. I was sitting in my chair looking at a vase on the hearth and I was exploring ways of expressing what I saw. Then came the ideas for animation. Something that happens more often than not; as you will see.
For Space, I had a vision of an animation I wanted to experiment with where a vehicle (star ship in this case) weaves between rock formations. Then I had the idea of seeing how well I could simulate lightning. Those two concepts drove this project.
I wanted to have a video to celebrate my retirement, hence Retired. It came together as a mishmash of things, and one idea followed another. It took several passes improving effects: the rolling ocean, the footprints in the sand, the waves, etc.
As is the case for many others that follow, I first wanted to explore a nice 6x4 inch post card. And I've been wanting to work on my skills for drawing an assortment of flower like plants. Once I got started, the idea to add animation came, and with it came the frog, the butterfly, and the plane. So I call this First One, referring to my first animation.