December 24, 2016 (2017)

Made for an independent study with Gary Mairs. I was planning on finishing this in a photo collage type of style, but ended up not being able to finish it. The idea Gary had was that since a lot of my work is me filtering my emotions through a fictional story, I should make something autobiographical to challenge myself. This is what I tried doing. I still like it alot, I wish I had finished it. The music is by “Freeway Bitches”, a band I had for one day with Haein Michelle Heo where we sat next to a freeway and made a bunch of little songs.

A Talking Dog and a Talking Lizard Who Lives in a Hole in the Talking Dog’s Giant Head (2017)

Drew a bunch of pictures of these characters and then decided to make a film with them, but it ended up being really depressing. My friends Haejin Choi and Misuzu Shibano voiced the dog and lizard respectively.

Jonni Astral Projects (2017)

A project I was working on to teach myself Flash, a program I would give up on for years until falling in love-hate with it in 2019. The plot was basically that I was just astral projecting and then I was going to go into heaven and punch god in the face. I was making this at the same time as Goodbye Forever Party, which eventually consumed my life so much that I just gave up on this. My friend Victoria Vincent voices Garrett. For whatever reason, Victoria and I wanted this and the film Victoria was working on at the time “Fluffy’s Third Eye” to be connected, but that didn’t end up happening.

Succession (2015)

This is a trailer for a film I tried to make in high school. I was trying very hard, but ultimately it was too ambitious for me at the time and also didn’t make any sense. Dylan Kanner did the song at the beginning, which was the first time we ever worked together. We ended up using the song in “Barber Westchester” 7 years later. A bunch of my fans found the unfinished animatic and did a reanimated project for it! What an honor.