My animated short, "The Gecko with a Reed" won its first award, "Best Animation" in the International Film Festival Manhattan of Autumn 2021. I am grateful that it was deemed impressive enough to be featured and awarded. Congrats to Fang Hsin Kai for their film "The Hole", as well as to all other participants in this film festival!

"The Gecko with a Reed" has been selected for three festivals as of now, and this is the first award from them.

My character reel is now available to view on the Home page. This features character animation from late 2019 to mid 2021. The software featured is Toon Boom Harmony Essentials for animation, Krita for background art and character design, and HitFilm Express for compositing, motion graphics and editing.

This is the sketch animation of a dragon.

These are keyframes to a dragon animation that I am working on.

This is an animation of a modern day tiger chasing after a bus. The frame-by-frame animation was made in Toon Boom Harmony.

A lone gecko passes through the rain forest with a snake on its trail.

This is an original story that was designed, storyboarded, animated, composited, audio-mixed and edited by me. The characters, objects and backgrounds were designed in Krita; the animation was made with Toon Boom Harmony; the video was composited and edited in HitFilm Express; and the audio was mixed in Audacity and Cakewalk.

This took me two years to make-- from the initial sketch storyboard that was done in late October of 2018-- while balancing freelancing, temporary and part-time jobs.  The idea for this short came from me considering the stories associated with the characters on one of my Facebook banners. After publishing "Convenience, " I thought to focus on smaller stories. This short managed to be a bit longer anyways.  The process was much smoother, though, since I laid out the important moments in the storyboard.

I would be nice if I can further develop The Gecko with a Reed into a game, but I will see what opportunities lie ahead.

The storyboard for the upcoming animation featuring a gecko and a snake is now on the Storyboards page. The animatic for the storyboard is also on its page.

These are construction drawings of a snake character for an upcoming animation of mine.

These are some poses of a gecko character for an upcoming animation of mine.

Here is an animation for the final output of the superhuman male drawing I made. The final image can be found on the Gallery page.

Here is the digital inking of the male superhuman drawing I made.

Here is a sketch of a male superhuman. I would like to return to this drawing to build up a scene.

Here is a small character animation clip featuring four ninjas.

I have taken a break from the second of the five animated shorts that I wanted to complete before the beginning or end of Spring of this year. While production may resume shortly, I doubt it will be finished before Spring arrives. Given the fact that the other three shorts are not conceptually concrete, it is not likely that I will have five shorts done by this Spring, let alone this Fall. It was nice to have the ambition for this goal, but it's even nicer to have a reasonable rate to work on these videos.

This is a teaser-style animation that could represent a game or graphic novel. This initiated from trying to visualize the scorn of society during the time of Jesus in the first century.