Benjamin R. Parks
  Animator / Instructor

Portfolio Resume About Home

       
Group Projects      
An animated short from my group project class. I was Writer, Director, and Art Director. For this project, I was inspired by the old Looney Tunes cartoons where a simple problem leads to a cascade of disaster. This was created over 10 weeks with 5 students.

Deconstruction
This is a student made group project for a real client. I was Director and Art Director. The creators of the Alphabetown children's book series, Ryan and Nicole Mayer, wanted a pilot for a children's television show. The characters in the book were 2-dimensional drawings that needed to be converted into a 3D version. As it was a 10 week class, we were only able to create an opening and closing scene. This was a team of 4 students.

Alphabetown
   
Student Shorts      
Commercial for Living Arts College's Animation & Game Design Department. This was a group project consisting of 5 students over 10 weeks. I was Director and Creative Director on this piece. The goal was to create an animated commercial for a client integrating both live action and composited 3D elements. I wanted to show the process of going through the animation department to graduation.

Process to Game
Commercial
PSA/Commercial for non-profit group, Erika's Lighthouse. I was Director and Art Director on this student group project. My goal for this was to make something that had heart but had a purpose. I was inspired by the Story Corps animations. The group consisted of 4 students over a 10 week period.

Erika's Lighthouse
 
Commercial for Living Arts College's Animation & Game Design Department. This was a group project consisting of 3 students over 10 weeks. I was Director on this piece. The goal was to create an animated commercial for a client.

Drawing Table
Commercial
This is a student short film by Amanda Sabatelli from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Doggy Door
 
This is a student short film by Maya Rose from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Lucky
 
This is a student short film by Isaac Evans from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Don't Mess With a
Mime's Money
This is a student short film by Hunter Williams from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Mind the Gap
 
This is a student short film by OBrian Carless from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Tricks and Treats
 
This is a student short film by Challen Mitchell from my Character Animation II class. I helped students develop their story ideas through the entire production cycle, from storyboard through finished product.

Nightmare from
Dream Scape
     
Personal      
This is my thesis animated short film, Pygmalion & Galatea, completed for my Masters program at School of Visual Arts in 2007.

Pygmalion & Galatea
 
A clip of motion capture I did while freelancing at Curious Pictures in New York City. I was part of the wrap up team for Harmonix' Rock Band 2 video game. It used Vicon's IQ system and MotionBuilder.

Rock Band 2
Motion Capture
A freelance animation done for the FartsyClaus.com website opener. I was responsible for all animation and compositing it all together. Animation was done in Maya and compositing was done in After Effects. website

Fartsy Claus
 
 
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