Blender Films

Inspired by Zbigniew Rybczynski’s short film Tango from 1981, this work features many looping videos placed inside a 3D environment depicting the experience of a troubled student. As sad, happy, and mundane events play all around each other in a loop, perceived barriers around emotions come crashing down, calling into question ideas of depression and loneliness. Music by Jackson C. Frank

An effort to recreate early pieces of animation that involved primitive translations to the tune of classical music. Desmos was used to capture frames of various functions from [-10,10]. These frames were then traced individually in Blender to simulate rotoscoped animation that did not rely on interpolation. Each shape was given an emission shader, which combined with Cycles at a low sample rate, created a nice film grain effect.

Glitch and Abstract Art

A glitch in the WIndow's XP Version of Solitaire allows for the cloning of cards and can have some unintended consequences!

The result of a composite of the edges from many different commercials layered over one another.

Some videos from around the UChicago campus that I took that have been compressed a multitude of times. These videos have been compressed so much that all eleven minutes fit into about 19 MB! I tried to get a variety of shots in terms of movement and movement speed to best show off how compression algorithms smooth out movement given a minuscule amount of information. The result seems to be lots and lots of data moshing. Music by Sun Araw.

Using nothing more than a $60 camera that constantly froze, crumpled tinfoil, and deodorant, I created a piece that appears to explore an unknown void marked by an endless descent into the separation of light from dark. That, or it looks like someone slowly moved a camera across the ground with an overpowering filter applied. You be the judge. Music by The Green Kingdom.