Animation

Recent Screenings

2009-06-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

"RAIN REFLECTION"

Melbourne International Animation Festival
International Program #5

Australian International Animation Festival
International Program #3

Division: Senses – Experimental Animation Screening
Anthology Film Archives
August 22

Curta Kinoforum - Festival International de Curtas-Metragens Sao Paulo
August 22

"MOON TANGO"

Festival Tangomagia
Amsterdam
December 28-30, 2009

Madrid Independent Film Festival
Tango Cinefilia
September 11 - 17, 2009

London Space, Race, & Rhythm Festival
Tango Cinefilia
September, 2009

Jewish Cultural Center
Tango Cinefilia
Moscow, Russia
August 20, 2009

Rosso Tango Art Festival
Tango Cinefilia
Cinefilia Tanguera
July 9 - 12, 2009

Echo Park Film Center
Animation Nite
November 16, 2007

"TWILIGHT"

Tales From Hollywoodland
Eyelevel Gallery
Halifax, Nova Scotia
August 27th, 2009

Echo Park Film Center Animation Nite
April 16th

Tele-Memory Scape

2009-04-13T02:46:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of images from the animation installation I recently showed in "Animated Spaces", a Vision & Voices Group show at USC.

Thesis in Progress

2009-03-31T23:58:00.000-07:00

To see what I've been up to lately, check out some stop-motion pics on my thesis blog, "Reality Clock"...

New Demo Reel - November 2008

2008-11-04T01:34:00.000-08:00

Wonderland in the Wall

2008-10-23T17:14:00.000-07:00

Here's my first stereoscopic project from May 2008. Break out your red-blue anaglyph glasses and watch it in high quality!* It was designed in HD resolution for a larger projection screen (and works much better that way), but still is sorta okay as a web video.

*Double click on video to open it on Youtube. "High-quality" option is at the bottom of the player

Interactive Group Project

2008-10-23T00:12:00.000-07:00

Here are some screenshots from the 2 week crash course head-mounted display project I worked on. My main contribution was to the visual style, textures, model & basic kaleidoscopic design. Others programmed and tied it all together into a cohesive presentation. The character clones out, intensifying possible interpretations of the environment.

Shift

2008-10-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

We finished "Quake" and changed the name to "Shift"

Quake Work-In-Progress.

2008-07-25T17:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to our experimental animation collaborative project from Spring 2008. We're finishing it up this summer. Will post the final by September!

Twilight

2008-07-25T17:07:00.000-07:00

Here's the final version of my stop-motion project from Fall 2007. I added a lot of film effects and color correction.

Rain Reflection Final

2008-07-25T01:17:00.000-07:00

Rie in Stereo!

2008-04-22T21:31:00.001-07:00

Here's an early still from a stereoscopic project I am working on:

More Style Frames

2008-04-18T15:32:00.000-07:00

Style Frame - Snowy Landscape

2008-04-07T22:49:00.000-07:00

A style frame I made for the ending snowy scene of our experimental animation project.

Style Frame - Grass Chunks Melting

2008-04-07T22:47:00.001-07:00

A style frame I created for the beginning of the abstract underground part of our experimental animation project.

Style Frames - Planes Turning

2008-04-07T22:43:00.001-07:00

More style frames I created for the abstract underground part of our experimental animation project. See our group blog here:

website

2008-04-03T14:31:00.001-07:00

I'm in the process of making a website. I've got a temporary google design placeholder up for now.

See Here:
amandatasse.net

Encyclopedia Pictura

2008-03-03T23:07:00.000-08:00

These are my new favorites:
Encyclopedia Pictura

Check out these ridiculous stills!

Morning

2008-02-11T19:43:00.000-08:00

Flash Animation for a quick mix assignment

Sorry for the awful compression quality. Ugh!

Flash Drawing

2008-01-21T18:24:00.000-08:00

Drawing for Flash Animation class made from altering a few glitch paintings

reminds me of 2003...

Glitch Painting

2007-12-13T23:22:00.000-08:00

I've been saving screen shots of "glitch paintings" for years. It's been especially easy lately with the project I'm working on in After Effects CS3. I'd love to do an animation with this. It reminds me of this Japanese video artist, Takeshi Murata.

These don't do his work justice at all, but just to give a taste... I'm surprised you can't find more of it on-line. Gorgeously glitchy in person!

Stop-Motion Character

2007-12-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

Here's a still from the stop-motion project I'm currently working on. I'll post some animation soon!

Owl Horror

2007-12-04T18:09:00.000-08:00

Here's a little character animation I did for my Intro to 3D XSI class. Silly silly...

Echo Park Film Center Screening

2007-11-21T10:00:00.000-08:00

I screened "Moon Tango" at Echo Park Film Center last Friday. It was a fun show!

Moon Tango -- updated

2007-11-11T00:51:00.000-08:00

I made some fixes and changes to this one this past week.

XSI Phonograph Animation

2007-11-09T20:09:00.000-08:00

Here's a 3D phonograph I modeled, textured, and animated in XSI for a project this semester.

Martin Klimas Photography

2007-10-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

Beautiful motion!

Image Sequence Exercise

2007-09-26T15:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a short image sequence exercise I recently did for a class. It's a way of brainstorming quick projects as we get prepared to do a more involved piece. I'd like to move in the direction of creating interactive panoramic vistas that include a sense of mapping, uncovering, inspecting, interior vs. exterior, and of course, woodland animals.

Del.icio.us!

2007-09-19T00:54:00.001-07:00

Add me to your network.

my del.icio.us site

I'm finally updating this with the awesomest links.

Swoon Swoon

2007-09-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

I heart this.

pingmag

Klaus Haapaniemi

sigh.

swoon

2007-09-06T23:35:00.000-07:00

These made my day.

Poster Inspiration

2007-09-04T00:53:00.000-07:00

Poster Design!

Art Nouveau

'60s

Paint Inspirations

2007-09-04T00:45:00.000-07:00

Paint!

Yuko Murata

Shazia Sikander

Ryoko Aoki

Dean Cornwell

Jessica Stockholder

Moon Tango

2007-05-06T16:33:00.000-07:00

Between waking and dreaming, sheep & wolves tango to the phases of the moon...
Hand drawn & collage. Animated & composited in After Effects. Expanded Animation class.

VFX UFO

2007-05-06T15:47:00.000-07:00

Rainbow Bubbles!!!
Here is the UFO I modeled & animated in Maya for Eric Hansen's Intro to Visual Effects class. It was composited in Shake.

Figure Drawings

2007-04-15T11:32:00.000-07:00

Here are some drawings I found from Cornelius Cole III's drawing class last semester at USC. I miss Corny!

Adobe visits USC Dada

2007-03-29T11:18:00.000-07:00

Check it out....

Adobe Link

Click on the "Master Collection" and you'll see a link to a video of the Animation program. Keren is talking about the Catalina Island program involving USC and the Wrigley Institute. Oh, and if you make it to the end, there's a brief shot of me working on the paint-on-glass project.

;)

Animatic

2007-02-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

Production 1
temp sound is from Camera Obscura and Os Mutantes
tagline: A despondent man disovers a sense of wonder through a magical encounter with a raindrop.

Basic over-all paint-on-glass look

Flipbooks

2007-02-11T21:08:00.000-08:00

These flipbooks were made during my second week at USC

Rainbow Spirals

2007-02-11T20:06:00.000-08:00

I just came across this one from last summer

A Cat and KCAL 9

2007-02-08T23:18:00.000-08:00

I spent all day today rescuing my cat, Tommy, from a 4 story telephone pole he'd been up on for 3 days. The ladder is the height of the roof.

KCAL VIDEO LINK

I had to go on the news and threaten to climb the pole myself in order to get the city to come out and help! Life is strange.

Prod 1 Character Design

2007-02-04T22:52:00.000-08:00

new production 1 idea
character design examples:
First inspirations (chubby, red-headed Bill Gates, as my brother commented)

Its simplified version:

Another random one of many character designs...

Getting closer to the final version. Marker on glass with light oil-paint:

Prod 1 Backgrounds

2007-02-04T22:39:00.000-08:00

paint-on-glass brainstorming

Brainstorming, First Prod 1 Ideas

2007-02-04T22:28:00.000-08:00

Beginning to create landscape imagery led to the image of myself meditating and reflecting on the river rock event in Sedona. While meditating, the scene becomes surreal as water pours from under the cushion. As I look into the water, my face is reflected. This transitions into a dreamy memory of the river rocks. Later, my reflection morphs into the image of my father reflected in the window as I'm meditating again. I eventually canned this overall concept for being too complicated for a one minute piece. Here is some of the beginning of the scene:

Production 0

2007-02-04T22:06:00.000-08:00

An excerpt from Production 0, a 5 week project we did during our 1st semester at USC, Fall 2006:

Here's where I fell in love with the paint-on-glass technique, a la the wonderful Caroline Leaf. I decided to use this technique for Production 1, our 2nd semester animated project. It's a perfect tie-in with my love for painting.

First Semester at USC

2007-02-04T21:57:00.000-08:00

Fall 2006

I love this little, furry, white, crotchety, old guy. am really inspired to do a stop-motion project next fall. I've always adored Rankin Bass, Will Vinton studios, Laika, Jan Svankmeyer, and the Brothers Quay. I hope to eventually combine traditional techniques (nothing compares to the quirkiness) with either live-action (aka Michel Gondry "Science of Sleep") or CG.

claymation was fun, though I can use some work on my lip sync! hey, it was my first try.

Getting Warmer...After Effects

2007-02-04T21:54:00.000-08:00

playing with after effects and now animation started to seem pretty interesting and i began applying to MFA programs

(notice the spirals)

One Toe into Animation

2007-02-04T21:48:00.000-08:00

2005
first pencil tests
gotta have a leaf:

and a walk cycle

and "Jesus Saves"!

a nod to my catholic upbringing

Watercolor and more painting

2007-02-04T21:40:00.000-08:00

more random paintings

"caught", watercolor
inspired by a cheesy 70's calender image

"ice cream and a kiss", oil on panel
elysian park

"echo lake", oil on panel
echo park lake

"sticky", acrylic
Spirals anyone?

Landscape Oil Painting

2007-02-04T21:37:00.000-08:00

and then I became inspired to visit touristy kodak-moment type places that had become rundown and a little abandoned, literally or figuratively - places that exist more as photos than as real. spending an afternoon with these views, sometimes turning halfway around from where I'm supposed to look. a fresh perspective. a form as overdone as a postcard. a few examples:

view from the "not a cornfield" public park/art phenomena outside of chinatown

"waiting" closed snackshop at Griffith Park

"She Talks to Rainbows - Hollywood Forever" Johnny Ramone statue at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

"without the horses it looks like jail" (I wish I could paint the horrible feeling I got from hearing a repeated off-key loop of carusol music for hours)

"Echo Lotus" biggest lotus garden at echo park lake this side of asia (this view never existed because it was covered by hundreds of people with cameras and tripods)

Oil Painting

2007-02-04T21:31:00.000-08:00

In 2005, I discovered oil painting (great new invention). I also took a couple of classes at the Barnsdall Art Center with a great kind teacher there, Aaron Donovan. I fell in love with doing completely dorky painting, returning to learning foundational techniques. Here are a few examples:

Yum

uh, sick...

"Left Behind"
inspired by internet pictures of bunnies waiting for the slaughter and surreal apocolyptic religious theories which spawned the "Left Behind" tv mini-series

Acrylic Painting

2007-02-04T21:21:00.000-08:00

In 2003, I began painting. Mostly acrylic on paper. Looking for an extension of the drawing style. Inspired by personal and collective simple symbols, repetitive techniques, mythological landscapes, and gesture.

This one was inspired by a hill that caught fire across the valley from my house in Mount Washington. It's called "Fire on the Mountain"

"concealed driving"

"reflecting pool"
Notice the spirals. My favorite symbol. I can't seem to stop doing those.

"foam playback"

"bubbles"
this one could be an animation

In the Beginning

2007-02-04T19:48:00.000-08:00

In brief:
At Maryland Institute, College of Art I mostly made video installation and sculpture. I used a lot of plastic epoxies and enjoyed transmuting materials. For example, putting resin on soft creamy silk makes it transparent and brittle. Beyond undergrad, I continued experimenting with materials and formats in 3-dimensions, and kept a studio in Eagle Rock. I moved away from toxic methods (resins, etc.). Instead, I used natural materials from the surrounding environment and home craft techniques. I made things like sand sculptures.

Throughout it all, I continued to make hundreds of quirky and spontaneous drawings.
like this

and this

this

and this

And So it begins...

2007-02-04T19:42:00.000-08:00

Let's start from now and work backwards. I've taken on the formidable task of creating, in one days time, a general blog archive of my work from the past few years. And you thought I couldn't do it... ;)

victory!