Animation Reel Update - rough cut

This is a rough cut of my efforts to update my animation portfolio.  I am realizing I need to get more animations and screenshots of more of the games I've worked on (after verifying what I'm allowed to post).   My latest little elephant character design is in here. Always fun to do the character sketch in addition to the animations. 

Girlie artwork of my arch-nemesis, Barbie

Recently worked on a large project for Mattel. They were revamping their website in preparation for the release of the new Barbie christmas movie,and although I have never been a fan of Barbie (to say it mildly), it was a great experience working on this. We created two games and some very pink-glam christmas scenes. It is too bad I cannot post the animated versions here because each one of these pictures had bling and sparkle animations happening all over the place!




The first game we made was the SnowGirl Glam Up dress up game. The second was Sisters Stocking Stuffer where the user catches falling items in a stocking in a race against the christmas-lights-timer. I worked on background art, game assets, user interface, level screens, instruction pop ups, etc. Here are some screenshots:

StartUp Foundation Animation

StartUp Foundation had their big launch this weekend. And another startup, What Now Exactly, created an animated explainer video for their launch - with me as the animator. It's getting some great press. Check it out:

Illustrator: Yas Imamura
Writer: Jen Zug
Animator: Linda Spain

News Funnel animated explainer videos

We're on a roll - pumping out these videos. Here is one we did for the News Funnel (low res preview size). Oh the hours I spent watching videos of dogs on YouTube. The client liked it so much that we're working on another one for them now.

Localicious animation

Animated explainer video I created for White Page's launch of their new Android app. I worked with the Lilipip team (Jen Zug - script writer / Yas Imamura - illustrator / Me - animator). This animation was made in a matter of just a few days. Fun working in a totally different style like this. And just days after finishing, this was all over the internet. They had a very quick and thorough marketing campaign!

Parallels video

Here is low res preview of another animated explainer video I made with the team at Lilipip. I did the animation and sound fx. Andrew was the fabulous illustrator / storyboard artist, and Jen Zug was the talented writer.

Animated Explainer Videos - Adobe

Adobe hired us to do a series of animated explainer videos for the release of Adobe Captivate 5.5.

It was a terribly short deadline. A couple of these animations had to be done in 2 DAYS! So some of the animation is not as fluid as I'd have liked, but I used a lot of simple tricks to keep it lively. Check it out.