Davis Crosbee: Master of all Things Bread (2018)

Made with Sam Lane and Haein Michelle Heo.

At CalArts animation, they have a yearly 48 hour film thing where a bunch of people make films in 48 hours centered around a theme. This certain year, my friends Sam and Haein and I decided to do one together. Davis Crosbee was the final time I and Sam and Haein would partake in the 48 hour tradition, as we were all graduating. It all started from a core idea Sam had, just a bee who sold bread. It could have been very simple. But then we went to Denny’s, and everything became a blur. Who knows why we decided to put any of this stuff in there, it was a complete whirlwind. We emerged 48 hours later with Davis Crosbee: Master of All Things Bread. Haein claims making the film gave her brain damage. I am insane and want to make a sequel very badly.

Are We Not Sharks Ourselves? (2018)

A collaboration with Angela Choe and Chris Kim. I was TA’ing at CSSSA, where they were students. During open lab, I came up with an animation exercise where you spin around a paper animation disc in the middle of the floor with a few people, and take turns drawing 1 frame in a sequence one after the other. I wanted to try it out, so I asked Angela and Chris if they wanted to. We came up with the story in 15 minutes and animated everything in a few hours while sitting on the floor of the hallway. I really like it.

Family Trouble (2017)

A 48 hour film I made with Haein Michelle Heo for CalArts 48 hour films. The theme was “egg”. I had the idea for this while taking a shower. Haein wanted to do CGI for practice, so we tried our best. This was done in Maya, the faces were drawn in Photoshop and UV mapped onto the models. I would stop motion the models around in the program, click on “preview frame”, take a screenshot of it, and then compile it in Premiere. When the screening for the 48 hour films happened, I realized too late that I exported wrong, and you couldn’t see anything, I had a little bit of alcohol in my system so I just started screaming. If you remember that, no you don’t.

Uber (2017)

I was working on Goodbye Forever Party, deeply entrenched in production, and absolutely hating my life. I wanted to just finish something, so I decided to make whatever bullshit I could in a few hours just to get something done. Made this super quickly, had my friends Emily Malone and Isabel Higgins voice the characters, did as little work as possible. After I released it, one of my all-time favorite animators, Danielle Kogan, messaged me out of nowhere and asked me to include it in “Great the Show”, one of my all-time favorite things that has ever been on the internet. So now it’s one of my most popular videos! Ahhhhh!

Uber 2: Halloween (2018)

A sequel to my extremely famous and popular video “Uber”. Made it around Halloween so the story reflects that. Was deep in production on Ascensia when I made this. I’m not sure which Uber video is stupider. Voiced by my friends Jeanette Fantone and Frankie Tamaru.

Therapy (2016)

A 48 hour film I made for CalArts 48 hour films. The theme was “bunny”. I actually made this in like 3 hours instead of 48. My friends Isabel Higgins and Aster Pang did the voices.

They’re Gonna Fight (2015)

A 48 hour film made for CalArts 48 hour films, made it with my friends Victoria Vincent and Aster Pang. The theme was “Sports”. You can really tell we were very young when we made this, because it has the aura of young women doing their best. We wrote it at Denny’s and recorded all the voices in the Calarts hallway while trying not to laugh. The main thing I remember is that it was Aster’s birthday when we finished making this.

Nice Friends! Great Meal! (2015)

This was a 24 hour film I made with Sam Lane, Mathieu Libman, Bryan Lee and Wolf Woodcock for some contest I don’t remember the name of. If I recall correctly we got last place in the contest.