Home Alone
This is a short animation I did last Fall for Drawn Techniques class with Maureen Selwood. The task was to show a fall of a chair.
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This is a traditional animation exercise from a CalArts' advanced Character Animation class taught by Ted Ty. The character was given, and all I had to do - animate! This is from last Fall's semester,...
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Japan
Japan has been struck today by what is now thought most powerful earthquake since records began, triggering a massive tsunami. I found in me this image with one of my characters. ...caring.
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Theater of the Absurd
Inspired by Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King", an improvisational play took place and time at CalArts's video studio last week. One of the side ideas of the improvisation was to carry it at a moderate...
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Seine of Paris
From my older sketchbook, while on final stages of my two animated films this year. Deep breath.
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Animation is complete!
Two new episodes of Oah & Harlam series are complete. This is a still frame from "Of Care", one of the two shorts this year. We are working on final mix, and I am looking forward to show the films...
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Scoring "Of Stars & People"
Scored by Yoon Lee, a new episode of Oah & Harlam series titled "Of Stars & People" is complete. The project is based on poetic prose and expressed through animation and music, along with the...
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Of Stars & People
These are still frames from "Of Stars & People", one of the two new episodes from Oah & Harlam series. This episode along with "Of Care" is screened today at CalArts Open Show, 2 - 6 pm and...
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Of Care - Still
One more still frame from "Of Care". I used oil paints for all the layers in the background, which was very fun to work with, while seeing how the paints interconnect after being layered...
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Poet - The King of Fools
Just came across the visual development of a character I did at Jon Gomez' Life Drawing class in 2008 at CalArts. Pierre Gringoire - a struggling poet, playwright and a philosopher from Victor Hugo's...
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Titled after an eponymous work by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, this film is a collaborative project. A musician, Yoon Lee, used audio signals from varying instruments and tone generators to vibrate a...
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At last online! This is a new episode of Oah & Harlam series I was working on this year. At fist glance the stories about two weirdoes Oah and Harlam may appear as senseless. But when there is an...
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The Making Of. "Of Stars & People"
This is a storyboard for "Of Stars & People" in a free, unofficial style. It is one of the beginning stages before animation steppes into the process of making a short film. This is one of my most...
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Demo Reel from Ruah Edelstein on Vimeo.'Do you have a demo reel? Send me your demo reel! Demo reel, demo reel, demo reel... !' - I heard a lot of that in the last few years. I also heard from an artist...
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One more episode from the Oah & Harlam Series I made these year. Scored by Thomas Parisch in association with PearUp Media.
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Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.
And so, I took some time off. This is oil on board from California's central coast along the Pacific Coast highway, the lighthouse from 1875 and still functioning. While showing my parents around...
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Central Californian Coast.
One more painting I did from central Californian coast. This will be a series of small format oil on board paintings. Summer is so hot that never before I saw an oil painting drying in one day or less!...
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Pacific Scape.
One more seascape of the Pacific coast. These are small snippets 6''x4'' of oil on board. The small scale allows me to work fast and be spontaneous, something I would love to carry on to bigger scale...
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Pacifica, California.
Stopped by Pacifica, a small town between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay and experienced the coldest night this season. The warmer palette is only due to sunset hour. Charming place, delightful with...
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Presenting Oah & Harlam Episodes.
Last weekend I had an opportunity to present "Oah & Harlam Episodes" in San Diego at &NOW conference for authors and critics of contemporary, innovative literature. While opening I shared a...
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Thesis Film.
Living through a delicate time of pre–production for my thesis film. Having only one year on my hands for making this film I am holding myself from being overwhelmed and give my senses enough space to...
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The Hermit Poet
Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190) - a hermit and one of the most prominent poets of his day. Last night I painted this and thought of his tanka being as fresh as if it had been written yesterday. Below are...
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Snow Animation
It is magical to see ideas coming alive. My thesis film is in full production mode these days. There are snow scenes in it, and I looked for ways of animating snow from scratch with no use of any...
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Rendez-vous
Spare time from thesis film, as if such exists, and I am digi–painting...These Fairies they call the Good People...are said to be of middle nature between Man and Angel, thought to be of old; of...
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