Portfolio

Stop motion animation is short about a retired mime who finds works as a motion capture performer in a low-budget production. Puppet design and music by Philip Martin and story and animation by Christine Veras. Pilot animation produced in Summer 2022.

In partnership with Project Still I Rise, Inc. I organized a collaborative experimental animation activity with 30 young men from 6thto 9th grade. Each student colored four different frames of two rotoscope sequences as a collaborative way to create animation.

Animation based on the testimony of Holocaust Survivor Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and founding director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.  The story and its message suggested a notably tactile technique and style. We chose to animate using photocopies, paper cutouts, and charcoal drawings. 

The Silhouette Zoetrope is featured as part of the Kopfwelten / Mindscapes permanent exhibition at the Swiss Science Center Technorama, in Winterthur, Switzerland. 

Two versions of the device are featured: butterflies and birds.

This one-night-only performance of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra (RSO) was conducted by Maestro Clay Couturiaux. Nine Visual Music pieces edited by my team, especially for the occasion, used visuals from Donna Cox and her team from the AVL NCSA.

 The Silhouette Zoetrope won 3rd Prize in the Best Illusion of the Year in 2016.  This international contest is organized by the Neural Correlate Society, a community of perception scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and artists studying the underpinnings of illusory perception. 

The World of the Senses Exhibition opened in March 2018. It features the Silhouette Zoetrope, my patented animated illusion device, as part of the Children's Museum in the Deutsches-Hygiene Museum Dresden's permanent collection.

The Silhouette Zoetrope is now part of the permanent collection of the Lingelbach Barn, also known as the Lingelbachs Scheune, a private museum of optical Illusions created by Prof. Dr. Bernd Lingelbach, in Leinroden, Germany.

Since my first visit to the Technorama in February 2018, I went back during the Summer to develop two brand new prototypes of the Silhouette Zoetrope. It was an honor to work with their team, test the prototypes, and see the final pieces in their collection.

The bird is flying on which direction? Left or right? The Silhouette Zoetrope seems to have confused the scientific community at the 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)
 at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, Germany, in August 2017.

Group Exhibition "Constellation: A Survey of ADM Animation 2016"

June 26 to October 30, 2016, ADM Gallery, Singapore.

Featuring the Silhouette Zoetrope: Birds, large version with crank.

Group Exhibition "50 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Brazil and Singapore" from June to July 2017, featuring the work AcquaLumen (Stills) at the Brazilian Embassy Gallery, Singapore. The work is now part of the permanent collection of the Brazilian Embassy in Singapore.

Group Exhibition part of the Boundary Crossings 2015 program, an Institute in Animated Arts, created and organized by Rose Bond. Show titled "Space and Identity: No Road Map" at the Pacific Northwest College of Arts (PNCA)  Portland, Oregon, USA.

Acqua Lumen (2015) is a Visual Music piece that explores patterns and motifs created by the light reflections in water. These close-ups of water are an attempt to catch interesting visual abstractions hidden in it and try to find correspondences between these graphic forms and Philip Glass’ music Mad Rush, performed by Aleck Karis.

Transformation of the Acqua Lumen Visual Music piece into a flipbook (2015) to investigate the possibilities and limitations of different mediums.

How did the timing of the piece change? How to add sound to the flipbook format? These questions led to the creation of the Flipbook Sound Project.

Experimental animation class exercise challenge to complete a cutout animation, with music and credits. Title based on the Brazilian expression "Ado, Ado, cada um no seu quadrado." Using music excerpts from John Williams "The Terminal."

Flying of a dove. Photographic documentation captured by Muybridge in 1887 and here displayed on a laser cut strip remnant re-animated in sequence. 

Playful experiments combining past and present technologies to recreate moving images

Project proposal for interactive installation, based on the Silhouette Zoetrope, for public spaces.

A variation of the merry-go-round, called merry-go-loop, playing with the cyclical nature of animation. Collaboration with Singaporean artist Jolly Lee.