Completed Projects with Storyboard Credits

I Never Picked Cotton (2019)

2021 HONORABLE MENTION, BEST ANIMATED SHORT AWARD, Cleveland International Film Festival

2020 BEST ANIMATED SHORT (STUDENT) category, NFFTY | National Film Festival for Talented Youth

2020 SEMI-FINALIST, Dumbo Film Festival, NY

2019 BEST COLLEGE FILM, Chicago Southland International Film Festival

2019 SILVER AWARD, Student Animated Documentary, Los Angeles Animation Festival

What is a Sport? (2019)

Directed, storyboarded, and animated this philosophy video.

Storyboarded Poetry

“What is so pure as grief? A wreck
set sail just to be wrecked again.
To lose what’s lost–it’s all born lost
and we just fetch it for a little while,
a dandelion span, a quarter-note.
Each day an envelope gummed shut
with honey and mud. Foolish
to think you can build a house
from suffering. Even the hinges will be
bitter. There will be no books
in that house, only transfusions.
And all the lemon and cedar
in the world won’t rid the walls
of that hospital smell.”

— Melissa Stein

[Open on a dandelion]

[Blown by a wind]

[All the puffs fly off out of frame]

[Camera tracks with one of the final puffs]

[Dandelion spins in the air]

V.O:

What is so pure as grief? — [Dandelion spins in the air] V.O: What is so pure as grief?

[Dandelion puff stem becomes the line of a new scene]

[Line grows into scene of sail boat on water]

[Line of wave overcomes the boat]

V.O:

A wreck set sail — [Line of wave overcomes the boat] V.O: A wreck set sail

[Line of wave swallows sail boat]

[New waves arrive below big wave, a small emergency tugboat arrives]

[Figure on tugboat waves to sunken ship]

[Disappointed person leans over boat as the tide behind settles]

V.O:

Just to be wrecked again — [Disappointed person leans over boat as the tide behind settles] V.O: Just to be wrecked again

[Figure salutes]

V.O:

To lose what's lost, — [Figure salutes] V.O: To lose what's lost,

[Person jumps over and camera tracks the cannonball into the water]

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{Person sinks down out of frame while bubbles rise out of frame]

V.O:

It's all born lost and we just fetch it for a little while, — {Person sinks down out of frame while bubbles rise out of frame] V.O: It's all born lost and we just fetch it for a little while,

[Bubbles continue to rise]

V.O:

A dandelion span, a quarter note — [Bubbles continue to rise] V.O: A dandelion span, a quarter note

[Bubbles lines transition into the next subject]

[Lines form into a honey stir and an envelope]

[Honey server swings back]

V.O:

Each day an envelope gummed shut
with honey — [Honey server swings back] V.O: Each day an envelope gummed shut with honey

[Honey splatters and covers the envelope]

V.O:

and mud. — [Honey splatters and covers the envelope] V.O: and mud.

[Morphing transition]

V.O:

Foolish — [Morphing transition] V.O: Foolish

[House made of honey forms]

V.O:

To think you can build a house from suffering — [House made of honey forms] V.O: To think you can build a house from suffering

[Honey swirls in a spiral]

V.O:

Even the hinges — V.O: Even the hinges

[Screw morphs out of the spiral]

V.O:

will be bitter. — [Screw morphs out of the spiral] V.O: will be bitter.

[Extreme zoom out on a screw going into a book]

V.O:

There will be — [Extreme zoom out on a screw going into a book] V.O: There will be

V.O:

no books in that house, — V.O: no books in that house,

V.O:

only transfusions — V.O: only transfusions

[Books begins to morph]

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[Book page becomes lemon]

V.O:

And all the lemon — [Book page becomes lemon] V.O: And all the lemon

[Morph]

V.O:

and cedar — [Morph] V.O: and cedar

V.O:

in the world — V.O: in the world

[Morph becomes a candle]

won't rid the walls — [Morph becomes a candle] won't rid the walls

V.O:

of that hospital smell — V.O: of that hospital smell

[Fade to white]

Storyboard Animatics

Space Child’s Mother Goose (2023)

Nested (2021)

Background Paintings

Illustrations