PREY is officially a Canadian Academy Award nominated film! We’ve been nominated 2x for Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing.
All animations by yours truly. A total of 20 animated scenes completed over 3 months. Full project here.
The Awards ceremony is next week, fingers crossed :)
Illustration of bachata dance champions Marcelo y Belen for a new latin dancing company Baile Del Sol. I think it’s the animator and dancer in me but I love illustrating figures in motion! Especially dance and sports : )
So excited to share the logo project for Sur a Norte! This Oxaca based bar-restaurant opened last month by my awesome friends Aaron & Britt 🌴🇲🇽 5 years ago I got to design the logo for their tiki bar Aloha Oaxaca, and so I was super excited to continue our collab with this new venture.
Happy Chinese New Year 2020! Year of the Rat, animated illustration for Rennie.
An animation I made yesterday to test the Apple Pencil ✍🏼🎶 My favorite is animating to music! There’s so much that can be visually translated by listening to the composition and paying attention to the movements & energy. Animating Michael Jackson dancing to Smooth Criminal was a blast 🕺🏻
Had the pleasure of giving a lecture on intro to After Effects motion graphics at the California College of the Arts (CCA). The 3-hour hands on class concentrated on animating text and graphic elements to create a music festival online promo poster.
Taught hand-drawn rotoscoping animation to Google designers at the beautiful Ridge Winery (California). The Googlers learned the techniques of traditional animation and created a frame-by-frame short inspired by Dirty Dancing (1987) final dance scene “Time of my Life”. See full post here!
Created a new hand-drawn charcoal animation of a lion mid run. I was feeling inspired by the new Lion King feature, which was so well made in my opinion. Here’s a cool article on their VR film making tactics.
UC Berkeley Extension has interviewed me for this lovely feature on teaching animation and my career journey - https://voices.berkeley.edu/iveta-karpathyova-animation
This week I presented at the Society for Animation Studies 31st Annual Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. My talk on ”Using Musical Layers as a Script for Animation Aesthetics” premiered my new visual music hand-painted animation and the production process behind it.
It was a part of the “Animation and Its Others: Expressive Reciprocities in Visual, Aural, and Verbal Imagination” panel presented alongside Ruth Lingford (Harvard U) and Nicholas Miller (Loyola U).
Being in this environment and around these passionate animation film-makers, academics, and theorists always energizes me to the fullest!
