I went to the Museum of the Moving image in Queens the other week and I was watching all the Eadgear Muybridge photographs and I really wanted to start using them in my animations. I just got a book from the library yesterday and it was this amazing 800 page archive of thousands of his photographs. This was the first of the experiments to use his photos in the animations, so it didn’t come out perfect, but it worked. I went to visit Jeff Scher’s studio a week or so ago, so my first foray into rotoscoping after a few year hiatus is my homage to his work.

Animation Hotline is a series of relatively often animations where I use messages left on my voicemail for content. When you get a chance please leave me a message, and honestly it’s best if you leave more than one because sometimes what you think is the perfect message might simply be impossible for me to animate in one day. This project is only as good as the messages that you leave me, so if you feel so inspired, call!

vimeo.com/​channels/​animationhotline

To leave a message call…
inside US: +1 212-683-2490
international (skype): animationhotline

Please vote for Prayers for Peace for the Next Great Filmmaker Award contest. I’m one of five films that have been selected for the contest and if I win I’ll get $5000, which should be able to finance this project for a few months. It’s so easy to vote, just follow the link, plus you could win an iPad2 just for voting. How awesome is that?!

biffma.com/​nextGREAT