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Family Threads is a short film I animated and fabricated with music composed by Katrina Rushing and narration by multiple of my own family members. I created this film for the opportunity to hear more about my family. As my Icelandic is not fluent enough to interview my family members, I sent my mother, who is the interviewer throughout the film, to Iceland for the goal of collecting as many stories as she could. In the end, she recorded anecdotes from my grandfather, great-uncle, great-aunt, and a few family friends. Together, they told stories from their childhoods in the 1940s and 1950s in Iceland. I set out to recreate these stories using stop motion and, a medium very dear to Icelanders hold dear, wool. Wool is a staple in Icelands culture and many of those family members lived and worked with sheep their whole lives. In the film, all appearances of yarn are real, authentic Icelandic yarn.
The Tale of Búkolla is a short film I animated and fabricated with music composed by James Marinas. The story of Búkolla is based on the classic Icelandic folklore and children's story which has been told for generations to Icelandic youth.
Black Death is a selection of many animations created as a collaboration between faculty and students at The University of Texas at Dallas, highlighting the courses taught by Dr. Siham Raboune, Dr. Katrina Rushing, and Dr. Christine Veras. This collaboration brings together students from Neuropharmacology, Music Theory, and Experimental Animation to create short animations on the topics of mental health aimed at young adults on our campus. This included topics such as social anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and drug abuse. Black Death focuses on alcohol use. The animation was made with a paint-on-glass animation technique using tempera paint. It consists of hundreds of paintings and was created over 6 weeks and 100 man hours. Black Death was also screened at The University of Dallas Creative Research Symposium (scroll down for more information).
The Cool To Be Kind Exhibit was an extracurricular student work group (SWG) working with visiting Fulbright professor Zeynep Akcay and Dr. Christine Veras at The University of Texas at Dallas to make short animations focusing on the theme of kindness. The goal of the 4-week work course was to create short looping animations to be seen in AR (augmented reality) at a final one-week exhibition presentation.
The Little Witch's Trip is an independent student short film that explores a variety of animation styles to showcase different artistic techniques. The short combines hand-drawn 2D animation, stop-motion with puppets, 3D modeling, and acrylic painting, each chosen for its unique ability to enhance the story. The goal of this project was to reflect my love for different forms of art and animation.
The Bird and The Fiddler Cat is a paper cut-out stop-motion animation made with paper from multiple scrapbook and magazine cut-outs. The goal of this animation was to sync animation with a piece of already exciting music The goal was that each action in the animation would fall on a beat in the music.