Jacob Kafka, animator
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"Based on a True Story" Spring 2012 A 6 minute short, my senior thesis film at NYU. It's about a little girl who tries to dig to the moon. Rough animated in Flash, inked/colored in Photoshop, composited in After Effects, 3D elements animated in Blender and rotoscoped in Photoshop. NYU First Run Film Festival 2nd prize Wasserman award Woodstock Film Festival official selection Animation Block Party official selection GIRAF Animation Festival official selection |
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Giraffe-stronaut Fall 2010 Short film made for Intermediate Animation class at NYU. Animated in Photoshop and After Effects, 3D elements animated in Blender. Woodstock Film Festival official selection National Board of Review student grant awardee |
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Animation exercises - Action Analysis I Animation exercises - Action Analysis II Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Animation exercises for Action Analysis classes at NYU. Some pencil/paper, some Flash. |
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Abridged Spring 2009 Final project for Intro to Animation class at NYU. Animated in Flash. |
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Stephen Colbert vs. Rancor August 2006 My entry in Stephen Colbert's Green Screen Challenge. It was shown on The Colbert Report and got over 1,500,000 views on YouTube. The rancor model is from SciFi3d. Animated in Blender. |
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Incongruitastic June 2006 - October 2007 An animated webseries about four security guards who protect an array of dangerous and unpredictable lightswitches from nefarious folks who would try to harness their power. Five one-minute episodes. Animated in Blender. |
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Beagle March 2005 A Peanuts/Star Wars crossover fanfilm. Animated in Blender. |