I was deep into storyboarding for this project this time last year, and am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Just got this trailer cut together by my friend Chris Finch and am excited to share it!

Working within a very fun theme for this latest video: Space Road-trip! Here are some highlights from the video. I was responsible for storyboards, color, illustrations/designs, animation, and placing in sound and music.

This is so rewarding and a great project to learn and grow from. This sequence is the product of about 2 months of work, including storyboards, animatic, color boards, animation, compositing. It is a short clip from the film (also has the most going on during this sequence too). Here are some of the steps along the way that it took to get here!

Woo! These storyboards were some of my favorite to create. I had discussed ideas and had a good amount of time to cultivate elements of what I wanted this video to look like. Then during an event called “Inktober” I blasted through on a wave of inspiration to storyboard the entire video with only 1 frame being scrapped from the project. 50 storyboards for a 4 minute animation.

Here is a quick look at some of the progress from there.

First, experimenting with a few scenes to find the final cleanup style

This was a lot of work in itself! Some things I discovered: Backgrounds were going to be more important than I first assumed. Even though he is walking through a big empty mostly black space, there needs to be something in the background to give depth and grounding. So I have a few backgrounds now to work with, especially when he gets close to the glowing pod. And there will be lots of particles and smoke vfx.

Next, I moved on to completing a whole sequence. Here you can see the animatic. Followed by some individual frame renders and a background (foreground?) for an upcoming scene. Findings here: The budget for this project is very small, so I am looking to cut time and effort without cutting quality as much as possible. One thing I found was that having the animation remain on a low frame rate looked great with the final compositing and camera movement. I am going to be able to use most of the animation from the animatic as rough animation and clean up straight from there. Time saver!

Once again, here is the sequence in progress, rendered from After Effects:

Here is a highlight reel from some earth science videos I helped produce for Western Governors University. A few illustrations were used from Getty Images (lemonade stand, soccer ball, bowling ball, background for the penguin flying), but almost all of it is designed, illustrated, and animated by myself. Voice of the science guy character is me, too.

Production is moving along. Here I am exploring mood and color script. Moving on to making a vertical slice of one or more of these scenes.

I am incredibly honored to be working with a Canadian musician for a really cool project. We wanted to create a music video that fed our mutual love of Silent Hill and other creepy but beautiful fictional worlds. These storyboards came out as an organic stream of consciousness after extensive brainstorming sessions. The story is deeply meaningful to me, and I hope you enjoy as I share the creation process along the way!

First time participating in Inktober! A friend from work got a bunch of us to join him, and I’m so glad I did. Making these cute little finished works was such a joy, and reminded me that I really do love drawing and creating art. I don’t have the entire 31 drawings here, because I’m counting a few that I’ll be posting soon for a Music Video project I’m involved with. See you Inktober 2019!!

These and more can be found on my instagram: instagram.com/peterartandyoga

Jumping right into video production for Western Governors University! First big project was 7 videos for an Accounting course.

First goal of producing a video? Clarity! This is communication after all, communicating ideas and concepts too students.

Second goal? Engagement. Motivated students will pull information from any source they can get, but why not make it easy and enjoyable for all students to get this info? It’s like a treat for the mind!

Here are some of the highlights from the videos. I had great help learning the ropes with audio recording, and snagged a few great props from Getty Images. All other characters, props, and backgrounds were created for this project.

Painted in Procreate

Studying some beautiful films and compositions. I love having a reason to rewatch all the Riddick movies.

Honor Park has an epic musical in the works for its non-violence episode. As part of the storytelling, I developed a short animated sequence to go along with the beautiful song Andrew Young wrote. This is the rough concept I used to pitch my idea to Andrew.

After Andrew approved the rough concept I developed the color script for the sequence.

Because the sequence was meant to look like ancestral historical story telling, the design of the characters was geometric and flat. I translated the rough concept into a defined animatic and continued on to animate and color the sequence.

This episode is still in development, but I will update here when final compositing and sound are added! It has been an inspiring project to work on. Andrew Young is a complete powerhouse of talent!

This is a small section of the film Estefan that I helped make storyboards for.

This is the Animatic for the 2D sequence in the short student film DreamGiver, directed by Tyler Carter. A Brigham Young University Center for Animation Production.

I worked closely with Tyler Carter to help create the second main 2D sequence in DreamGiver. I think this may be version…90? 93? We had a lot of fun trying to figure out how the monster was going to die, and how the Dreamgiver would help the boy.

I used Adobe Flash to make this.
This also features the work of Aaron Ludwig. We worked together to create 3 or 4 completely different versions of this. His monster head, and monster foot are the remnants of his excellent work. Aaron also did the animation for the boy at the end of the animatic!

This is the second main 2D sequence in the short student film, DreamGiver, from Brigham Young University. Directed by Tyler Carter.

I helped make the storyboards/animatic for this section. I also made the final monster design, and animated the monster and the Dreamgiver.

These other fine artists are the other creators behind this: Aaron Ludwig, Tyler Carter, Jason Keyser, Michael Murdock, Sidney Strigham, Paige Strigham, Markham Carrol, Laura Allred, Younhee Burningham, Paul Petty, and Anthony Holden.

Here are a few more little scenes from DreamGiver. I did the layout/animatic for each of these, did the rough animation for the monster, and supervised the clean up for the monster. Clean up, efx’s, compositing, backgrounds, etc. were all done by different artists.