I am collaborating with a group of talented artists to produce animation for commissioned work in the advertising, publishing, manufacturing, and educational industries. Under the moniker of RAGanimation, we offer full service animation with original writing, design, music, and sound capabilities. It is a fun thing to be involved in. The problem solving process is similar to illustration starting with sketches, refining through comments and critiques and continuing through tweaking the final product.

 The storyboards here are from our first promotion. Our first concept stuck with us: Animation Magic. It was then a matter of back and forth “How’s this?” until we all agreed on a specific story. At that time, my writer Robin Brecker finalized the script. I drew the characters and settings directly in FLASH. The characters are designed to make the animation motions as easy as possible (per strict instructions of my animator Alex Budofsky!). Stephen Coates develops the music soundtrack with the script and it is then handed off to the animator. Jason Votner finishes off with sound effects. Our geographical spread is from London to Seattle. God bless the web for effective collaborating!