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BLOOMING YUCCA


An animated music video that follows a roadtrip through the yucca filled desert under the Texan sun for psychedelic folk singer-songwriter Sara Noelle’s single, 2022.

Direction, Illustration and Animation

TWIN BED

Animated video and design for artist Soh Darling’s duo track EP Where To: “Where To” and “Stargazer” explores the point of view of the singer’s inner realm through intimate spaces where secret reveries remain, 2021.

Design, Illustration and Animation




POINTLESS

Animated music video inspired by 1980s-90s TV and animation culture for rapper CJ Trillo’s indie album “Volume 1: Nostalgia”, 2014.
Direction, Design and Animation

Official Selections
2015 Interfilm Berlin, Int’l Film Festival, The Roter Salon + Babylon 3, Berlin, Germany
2015 HAFFTube 2015, Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2015 USC School of Cinematic Arts Adobe First Frame, the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles







PAPAYA

An animated music video combining gritty sunbaked ink with soap textures which reflects skin whitening products promoted by the Philippine beauty industry; a combustion of colorism and the control on women’s bodies for Kelady, Solstice EP, 2022.


Direction, Design and Animation

Official Selection
2024 7th Annual USC Asian Pacific Film Fest, Los Angeles
2023 Nominee Bakunawa Film, Art, & Music Fest, Manila, Bakolod, Naga, PH
2023 9th Pambujan International Film Festival, PH
2022 Finalist Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark
2022 Nominee International Music Video Underground, Paris France

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THE TRUE AND TOXIC VIEW

Translating french horn, keys and voice through abstract forms, light and dark, the animated music video reveals an alternative perspective. For San Francisco based musicians Late Aster’s debut EP True and Toxic, 2021.
Direction, Design and Animation




AIN’T OVER

Inspired by beauty found in chaos, the animated music video reflects this notion with its hand dyed Shibori indigo canvas combined with fluid illustrations. The project presents a dream-like world of persistence and hope for neo-soul band Idesia’s single “Ain’t Over”, 2017.
Co-direction, Design and Animation

Official Selections
2018 Vid and Sound, Bime, Spain
2018 Portland Unknown Film Fest, OR
2018  Cinemi Cinema Int’l Film Fest, Tuscany, Italy
2018 Napoli Film Fest, Naples, Italy
2018 Chilemonos Int’l Animation Festival, Santiago, Chile
2017 Animac Int’l Film Festival of Animation, Catalonia, Spain
2017 Amarcord Arthouse Video and TV Awards, Chicago, IL
2017 Locomocion Animation Festival, Mexico City, MX
2017 New Chitose Aiport Int’l Animation Festival, Hokkaido, Japan
2017 visionXsound, Int’l Experimental Video Festival, TANK Gallery, Vienna, AT
2017 ORF Lange Nacht der Museen, Neulengbach, Austria
2017 AnimaSyros 10, Int’l Animation Film Festival, Syros, Greece


COLOR OF LIGHT ON THE WATER

An animated music video on an explorative trip through a pensive reflection of water for singer-songwriter Sara Noelle’s single, 2022.
Direction, Illustration and Animation


THE GARDEN

Animated music video for singer-songwriter Abby Litman which transports viewers to an earth-toned world following a listless woman in a garden of unraveling dense weeds and overgrown paths of self-discovery, 2019.

Direction, Story, Design and Animation 

DEEP ROOTS

An animated lyric video for singer-songwriter Louise Kelly’s environmental children’s educational program on prairie ecosystem preservation depicting the livelihood of wildlife, 2022.


Direction, Illustration, and Animation.








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