The Singing Pickle sings "Santa Claus (I Still Believe in You)" by Alabama

Below is the longest animation endeavor I've ever accomplished! When I was 12 years old, I was messing around in front of the camera when my family was decorating the Christmas tree and I made a pickle sing one of the carols that was playing in the background. Thus began a weird tradition of "the Singing Pickle" that made an appearance each Christmas season. And today, for the first time, he makes an appearance in animated form as part of my family Christmas Eve talent show. Enjoy!

Lipsyncing Animation Practice

I've been stuck inside for the COVID-19 quarantine, so I thought I'd entertain myself by drawing the eight frames needed to lipsync any vocal sounds and rearrange them to fit songs, quotes, and just recently, a press conference at Blizzcon 2018. I've been getting a bit better every time, and it's been fun to learn some new things about phonetics and phonology in the process. It's amazing how even something like the rhythm of blinking has to be determined when animating vocals... I don't know how the big studios do it so thoroughly. Here are my projects so far:

Warcraft 3

I got some fun tips for animating and decided to put them to use with Warcraft III quotes. I thought this one turned out pretty good! It's amazing how it can take four and a half hours to animate 3 seconds.