Donut Run

(2001) - I was hired to make an animation about a guy and his undeterrable quest to satisfy his craving for a donut. I drew the character and all of the storyboards, planned the entire sequence of events, and animated it and applied a basic soundtrack in Macromedia Flash.

The character style was simple enough, but the client wanted the linework to feel like brushwork which presented a very big production challenge. It was easy enough to apply a brushwork style to the drawings done in Adobe Illustrator, but importing them into Flash required the linework to be "expanded", meaning each line consisted of hundreds of vector points, and each drawing in the thousands. Back in 2001 at least, Flash was very unhappy with that many vector points. So for each and every piece of artwork, I went through an arduous process of decreasing the vector points while maintaining the basic brushstroke look. It worked out in the end, since due to the nature of being animated, the linework is constantly in motion, so the lesser detail of the brushstroke is not so bad.
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