I made a Burd.

There's a bird nest above the porch where I live, and every morning these fat little round birds come down & hop around on the sidewalk looking for stuff. I like 'em. They make me chuckle. So I animated one.

This video's not funny, really. But it's short, so watch it.

P.S. Did I get carried away with the hatching on the mask around the edges? Probably. I was experimenting. Thoughts?

Morphing DNA and Babies n' Stuff Animation

This is a short animation I made a couple weeks ago. It was part of a video projected on the wall at an event at the museum. There was a video and a soundscape that went with each one of the exhibits there. This one was for "the wonder of life" (or something like that).

Now this lil' diddy may not seem terribly impressive to some, but I'll have you know that I made the entire thing in like 15 hours (concept to finished animation). So, y'know....I'm okay with how it turned out. And most importantly, I enjoyed doing it, even though I was totally sleep deprived and my vertebrae suffered dearly from computer hunchback.

P.S. -Again, I advise you to watch this on YouTube. I'm just gonna pop out back and have a blood-curdling scream now, 'scuse me.

Updated Reel

I'm having some trouble with my posts (as you can probably tell). They keep

showing up all weird and cut off and right in the middle of the page.

Hopefully I'll figure out how to fix it, but in the mean time if you feel like

watching this ingenious piece of film making mastery, I advise you to watch

it on YouTube. please.

garbage patch infographic

Improved version--

this one got a Student Best of Show Addy in February.

New & Improved Garbage Patch from Liz Zimmerman on Vimeo.

Animation I made in after effects. there are a few issues with the photoshop drawings that didn't really show up till after it was rendered,

which I'll hopefully have time to fix up at some point. I'd like to put some kind of music or something in there, too.

It's too weird hearing just my own voice.

You can kind of tell while watching this that I started figuring more stuff out as I was working on some of the

compositions. I learned A LOT while doing this project- mainly 'cause I worked on it pretty much all day every

day for like 2 weeks. Every time I watch it I see more ways I'd like to improve it. This program is really fun to work with!

Thesis Animation Stuff

background #1 and character sketch for my thesis animation project. comments! feedback! gimme!

My Animation Reel

My Delightfully Creepy Diner Animation

Concept sketches and stills from the first animation I made. It's a fake TV commercial for a greasy diner called "Crackity Jones" (named after the Pixies song). I drew everything by hand & then scanned it into Photoshop where I added the color, then I animated it using Flash. This was also my first time recording dialogue, so the narrator's voice is a bit hard to hear. I'm hoping to re-record it in the fall, & then I'll put the actual video on here for your watchin' pleasure.