Gary Schwartz directed a two-day workshop to produce this short frame-by-frame animation. I joined in the class and also made the music (and Jeff Jimison voices the late Senator Thomas Palmer.

Gary Schwartz and his pupils at the Flint Institute School of Art animate this brief expression of anguish at the outset of the war in Ukraine. A large Soviet 35mm anamorphic projection lens was adapted for the project. My sound design samples The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, from a 1960s Detroit recording. Animation by Benjamin Strom, Brianna Rose Haywood and Noah Hansz.

This game show for artists can’t be lost. Seven quick episodes created concurrently with sister show Waiting For Lunch Radio Zine. This mini-podcast was also featured on “Incubator” as part of The Planet Ant Podcast Network.

Episodes feature puppet artist Lindsay McCaw, writer Amanda Nazario, musician Swivs, illustrator Bekki Doodles, voice actor Tim Rath, animator Gary Schwartz, and visual artist Vagner Whitehead. Jeff Jimison created original sound design for our MANDATORY OBSTACLE COURSE.

Iztac, the snow leopard at the Mexico City zoo, plans his escape in the midst of his trapeze act. DJ Stashu longs for a blue-collar lover. Mitch gets trapped in a time vortex, and Detroit looks forward optimistically amidst chaos. Quirky original music and animation soundtracks round out this new six-track collection.

As part of my ongoing collaboration with Academy Award nominated animator Gary Schwartz, I recently created two minutes of “walking” sound design for a student workshop he taught in Armenia. The high-school-aged students were charged with creating walk cycle animations to the changing scenes set up by the sound design.

I created the sound design for this film first, and Gary animated to it.