Hello Debra!

Been currently working on a new film project called Hello Debra! It's also my first time being lead animator! I'm still not used to it or feel like I'm the most suitable for it but its definitely a great learning experience. Some back story to how this film came to be, Adobe had approached our school and asked us to create short films about the future of technology. Our film focuses on the future of cosmetics and vanities.

The film is still not finished, we are finishing up 2D animation while simultaneously cleaning up animation in Flash. Our goal for the final look of the film is a graphic look with very minimal use of lines. Therefore we decided to go with Flash to keep a clean look.

These are our characters and final look. The older sister is Debra and younger sister Jessica.

While the focus of the film is the technology, it's still important to have a good story in a short film so our film also revolves around the relationship of these two girls. I'm very anxious for this film to be done, I think it will come out great and I can update this post then!

This is my shot for the film! (also she has hover boots in case it's confusing why she's in the air)

Scene 7 of Hello Debra from aldo kcomt on Vimeo.

Jimmy Loves Juice!

We finished Jimmy Loves Juice! It's such a fun and silly film, I had a great time working on it. I won't be able to show the finished film but you can see some shots I worked on here. In total I got to animate four shots and well as do some turnarounds for the characters.

These are two of the shots I got to work on.


Jimmy sucks Juice from aldo kcomt on Vimeo.

It's always a great feeling seeing people react to your work, it's one of the best rewards you get from animation. I remember the guy sitting behind me during the screening said "oh my god!" during my shot.

This shot also got a big laugh from the audience. The finger was later blurred of course.


1 from aldo kcomt on Vimeo.

It was also the first time I cleaned up animation in Flash. I figured with being able to use symbols and copying and pasting that Flash would be faster than cleaning up in Photoshop but it ended up taking the same amount of time. Since the look of the film was very clean we had to be very precise in flash so it took a while to get that clean graphic look. Overall had a great time and I hope we have success in festivals soon!