Jumpstart Recovery

I partnered with Authors Projects to animate this story of Suzy and her dog Newton who experience a small earthquake, and are helped by Jumpstart Recovery. Yuki Yamada completed the designs, and I animated the piece.

Yuki's work lended itself to several sections of traditional animation. I enjoyed working with his designs and finding creative solutions to his PSD rooted workflow.

A few sections didn't fully make the cut to keep up the pacing of the edit. Working in Flash for more complex character moves made certain actions of Suzy's more efficient.

Throughout the project I would use a hybrid approach for different things - the complex moves of Suzy landing in the room, picking up her dog and spinning around necessitated a traditional approach, while the latter half of the final shot was more t