The Story of the First Christmas

This post is a little late but I wanted to get this blog up to speed! I have since finished my Thanksgiving/Christmas animation which is titled The Story of the First Christmas. I designed and animated all the joy, spirit, tears, and violence you see here. Hope you all had a great holiday and a happy new year!



The Story of the First Christmas from Chris Roman on Vimeo.

Project: Thanks

Well, Halloween is officially over. We even had an extra Halloweekend this year to celebrate which was pretty cool. And although I'm sad to see October go, we have some more holidays to focus on. The first of which, and one that is often shunned, is the fabulous Thanksgiving (and TomHanksgiving). It's a nice ending to the Autumn season. Unfortunately for Thanksgiving, Christmas likes to charge in and start putting up decorations and airing its commercials everywhere.

I had a lot of fun doing the Famous Monsters animation for Halloween, so I thought I would try to do something a little more challenging for Thanksgiving. I decided to base the idea off a drawing I did last year. Here's the initial character designs I did super quick tonight since we got an extra hour!

I think you can see where I'm going with this.

AAU Spring Show

This is a super late post but I thought I'd update anyways. In May I entered one of my shots into AAU's Spring Show and it ended up winning 2nd Place in the Character Animation category. They required a poster design so I thought I would post it here, as well as the actual poster hanging up at school.

FAMOUS MONSTERS Animation

FAMOUS MONSTERS from Chris Roman on Vimeo.

Happy Halloween!! Here's the complete Famous Monsters animation. If you've been following you probably saw my various Famous Monster illustrations. About halfway through them I decided to rig and animate them in After Effects. I posted a couple cycles, after which I decided it would be cool to put them all together in one scene. So basically everything kind of snowballed into this and I think it turned out pretty cool!

I created everything in this project from scratch except for the music (Alexandre Desplat) and the font (GoGoZombie).

Who knows, maybe I'll do one for Thanksgiving too!

Mummy Cycle

Mummy Cycle from Chris Roman on Vimeo.

Another Famous Monster animation! 

Nosferatu Cycle!

Nosferatu Cycle from Chris Roman on Vimeo.

I'm working on a project that incorporates all the Famous Monsters I made so far. Here's a quick animation test I did with the Nosferatu character. I'll be doing one of these for each character and then assembling them all together. Hopefully it works!

Famous Monsters Part V: The Mummy!