Storyboarding and
2D Animation
Works in Progress
Memento Mori is made entirely in free or one-time-purchase software, namely Blender 4.2 and DaVinci Resolve 19.
The animatic for Werewolf Boyfriend was made in ToonBoom StoryBoard Pro, and the final product will be animated in Blender 5.0.
HEIST (2022) - Animatic / Final
Heist was animated entirely in ToonBoom Harmony, with storyboarding done in ToonBoom StoryBoard Pro. Supplemental visual effects are done in Adobe AfterEffects and final editing was done in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Development Documents for Heist
Other Animation
Inspired by the Gorillaz music videos for Humility and DARE, during a Visual Effects class at UCF I animated my character Domino Dog on a backing plate of my balcony during a storm. I used this opportunity to test a ToonBoom Harmony-to-Adobe AfterEffects pipeline. Here is the development of this idea:
In the same Visual Effects class, we were tasked with rotoscoping a piece of footage we created ourselves. Inspired by the animation style Sony Pictures Animation used for Hobie Brown in Across the Spider-Verse, this animation (created in PhotoShop) explored a variety of styles for each frame.
Older Work
Oh, Catastrophe was made entirely in ToonBoom StoryBoard Pro.
The 48-hour challenge animatic, puppet animation test, and Monty Python style emulation were made entirely in ToonBoom Harmony.
Note: Contains audio from Oh, Catastrophe by Crown the Empire. Axel Bennett claims no ownership of this song or its content and makes no profit from this video. All advertisement shown before, during, or after in the form of mid-roll ads is auto-placed by the video host client YouTube and all proceeds split between YouTube and Rise Records.
Development documents can be found here.
Note: Contains audio from an episode of Dr. Katz Professional Therapist. Axel Bennett claims no ownership of this audio or its content and makes no profit from this video. All advertisement shown before, during, or after in the form of mid-roll ads is auto-placed by the video host client YouTube.
Stop-Motion
The Lab was made in DragonFrame with additional editing done in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Motion Graphics
Opposite Words was made entirely in ToonBoom Harmony.
Vidguru Commercial is an amalgam of Adobe AfterEffects motion graphics and editing, ToonBoom Harmony animation, and PhotoShop animation.
This video features work from other students as well as my own. My roles were some graphics animations using ToonBoom Harmony and AfterEffects as well as compositing the final product in AfterEffects.