The story of a man and his young clone on a voyage into the unknown… My sci-fi 2D original animated short film “33” is now available to watch publicly on YouTube!
Written, directed, hand-animated, and voice acted by yours truly and winner of Best Animated Short at the Santa Monica International Film Festival in 2025. I wrote “33” after my son was born during COVID, where I spent a lot of time isolated with a young baby as a new father. The experience caused me to reflect a lot on the idea of generations, with a lot of introspection on myself. When I looked into my son’s eyes, I often saw my own looking back at me.
I wrote the script in Final Draft myself, then storyboarded and formed an animatic using ToonBoom Storyboard Pro.
I designed the characters myself using Procreate on iPad Pro. I was going for a kind of realist American animation vibe that somewhere in between Disney and anime. The costume design was really just “futurist gray pajamas” for the most part.
