GIFs and motion design
A selection of short-form animation, looping GIFs, and digital-meets-analog motion experiments. Many of these pieces grew out of my recent (2025) classwork in riso animation and my ongoing interest in translating drawing into movement.
Riso animation: Yin–yang
Using sunflower and cornflower riso inks, this animation revisits my 2017 drawing of two relaxed states of being: one girl absorbed in her book, the other smoking a joint on her back. Their small movements play out as the whole shape turns clockwise, with the riso texture giving the loop additional, imperfect movement.
Riso-printed contact sheets showing each frame of the animation
Riso animation: Raccoons
I took a short clip of a video I made of raccoons in Central Park, printed the frames out of the riso, and animated the scanned frames again. Finally, I used Photoshop effects to fade the colors from bright, summer green leaves to autumnal tones.
Riso animation: Kitty cone
The first project in Kelli Anderson’s Riso Animation course started with drawing one static object and photocopying it on the riso to build rough collage frames. Inspired by real-life events while cat-sitting, I chose to draw a very upset kitty with a cone. After scanning the collage sequence and adding color, I created the full hand-drawn frames and printed them through the riso to animate her dramatic moment of cone-related despair.
Motion-designed logo: a late bloomer’s desk
I created this looping logo animation for my Substack, first as a digitally drawn sequence and then as a riso-printed version. See both side by side.
digital animation
riso animation
Riso-printed contact sheets showing the full frame sequence.