Pinup Yours

Zena Koo and I made this video for animation class using After Effects. The characters are taken from vintage pinups that we found at the New York Public Library’s image archives, and the music is Patsy Cline’s “The Wayward Wind.”…

Unattended Sandwich

Protect your sandwiches! This is my first short film for Comm Lab Animation, using stop motion. Michael Gambale and I made all of the pompom creatures and shot it in a day using Dragon Stop Motion software and a Canon…

A Brief Summary of Comm Lab Web

It occurs to me that I never got around to posting anything about my Comm Lab Web class, mostly because everything was on the web already. Here is a brief summary for documentation purposes: Recipe: http://itp.nyu.edu/~ka1019/Comm_Lab_Web/recipe.html Our first assignment was…

Thaumatrope

In our first animation class, we discussed the principles and history of animation. One way we explored this was by making our own thaumatropes. As Wikipedia points out, the word “thaumatrope” is a compound of the Greek roots for “wonder”…