Emile

A blind homeless boy loses his one coin and sets out to find it, only to discover a trail of music that leads him to something more beautiful than he could ever imagine.

I was the director and animator for my undergraduate thesis short at the University of Southern California. I hand painted all the backgrounds in watercolor and animated the film frame by frame in Adobe Photoshop. This film was inspired by my time studying abroad in Florence, Italy, where I was able to listen to the guitarist Piotr Tomaszewski render his beautiful tunes in the Piazza della Signoria.