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What’s new with me? Have a look at my Instagram. I'm on Vimeo too.

I don’t want to Braga, but #WhateverTree just won Best Animation AND Best Short Film at the Braga Science Film Fest! What an honour. I’m so happy the scientific roots of my social-media-tree film are connecting with audiences in Portuga
Wow! Thank you everyone who came out to #nuitblanche ! Amazing turnout, feedback, and conversations. If you missed it, the #flipbook remains at @bayside.village until 6 pm on Saturday, Oct 12th. (Via Velo space, 15 Merchant’s Wharf beside Sherb
All night flipbook and special projection of “humans build the biggest nests” at Nuit Blanche Toronto, Oct 5th, 2024!!!! Join me at the Via Velo space, 15 Merchant’s Wharf, right beside Sherbourne Common at the Lakeshore. I’
Join me at #nuitblanche2024 ! I’m presenting my giant flipbook “Humans Build The Biggest Nests” (with bonus film projection) at the Via Velo space, 15 Merchant’s wharf, Toronto. Oct 5-6, from 7 pm-7 am! The installation will
After a year of festival screenings, “Inbetweening Beings” is online! Link in bio. This 4-minute film is a collage of my MFA work at @ocaduniversity , combining installation, projection, outdoor stop-motion, and ecological animation. Mor
Growing a Nose πŸŒ»πŸ‘ƒ This is just to say that a nose has grown on our sunflower stalk. 🎡 “your nose is gonna grow” by Johnny Crawford, 1962. #drawnoutside #nose #growinganose #sunflower #helianthus
markmaking γ€°οΈγ€°οΈγ€°οΈβž°βž°βž°βžΏβžΏβžΏβ–ͺ️β–ͺ️β–ͺοΈπŸŸ°πŸŸ°πŸŸ°πŸ’±πŸ’±πŸ’±β›“οΈβ›“οΈβ›“οΈπŸ«§πŸ«§πŸ«§πŸŒͺ️πŸŒͺ️πŸŒͺοΈπŸŒ«οΈπŸŒ«οΈπŸŒ«οΈπŸ•ΈοΈπŸ•ΈοΈπŸ•ΈοΈ Planning a new experimental animation course. How does mark making inform movement? I hope lines, patterns, shapes, and colour can inspire some new 2D animated characte
“Humans Build The Biggest Nests” will premiere at the Ottawa international Animation Festival, Sept. 25-29! Looking forward to seeing all the other Canadian panorama shorts, and everything else at #oiaf this year πŸ‘€πŸŽžοΈ The film is based
My final Korean animation adventure: touring Akom productions and the Nelson Shin Animation Art Museum! My kids and I love The Simpsons. I emailed Akom, the Seoul studio that has been producing the show since it began, and was lucky enough to see th
Some Korean relatives, after “Underdrawing of a Buddhist Painting”, National Museum of Korea. These are some of my Korean relatives who have welcomed our family this month. After a 40-person luncheon, I wanted to capture their generosity
A summary of some recent animation research in Seoul: 1-4: visiting KIAFA, the Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association, I met the wonderfully warm team led by Byung-A Han. They operate the Seoul Indie-Anifest festival, distribute films,
Some characters of Korea: 1. Magpies, pines, technology 2. Nat’l cemetery cuties 3. Lotte raccoon 4. Haechi 5. Sokcho squid 6. King Gwangmok, Seoraksan 7. The Scream (of sand), Busan 8. Centipede, Gyeongju 9. Stone students 10. Izekaya face
What a wonderful visit to the Korea Animation High School! Thank you so much to the energetic teachers and students for having me. You clapped after my films. You asked great questions. You made a huge sign! (Which I took home with me 😁) At KAS, g
Today I spoke about my work at @hongik_university in Seoul. Thanks for having me in your class @jeong_dahee__ ! I was inspired by the conversation, the campus green spaces, and some visual and AI artwork in the university galleries (see credits). P
Studying urban pine trees in Seoul πŸŒ²πŸ™οΈ #pinetrees #pinuskoreansis #seoullo7017
Welcome new Canada geese πŸ£πŸ“Έβš½οΈ 1. Here is a clip from my new film “Humans Build The Biggest Nests” about nuisance animals 2. Geese and admirers at the Humber river #HBTBN is coming fall 2024 with a thrilling score by @braaaaaaaam , sup
Thank you for having us, WAHC! @peter.morin.morin and I spoke about our animated video for “Labour Pains”, a group show at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton. Curated by Emma Steen. On until July 27, 2024. Go see it! Thank
So the giant wall at #ontarioplace has been covered with generic images of ontario parks. This offensive #greenwashing ignores what will happen here: taxpayer dollars will fund a private mega-spa, cutting hundreds of mature trees and destroying publ

I’m delighted to present a retrospective talk at the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival in Baltimore, Oct. 5-8, 2023. Below is a (roughly chronological) collection of my favourite work from 2000 - 2022, assembled for my talk.

Click link above for some festival news - warning: not updated very often!

Click link above for some festival news - warning: not updated very often!