Your Rose Garden
Commissioned Work.
'Your Rose Garden' is a musical short film produced by Alexis Harte, a film in memorial of a garden full of roses. I am in charge of creating a short animated motion sequence for this film to visualize a surreal journey through different kinds of roses.
Your Rose Garden is a musical short film project celebrating the storied Berkeley Rose Garden, built by the WPA in the 1930s and a living, vital community space to this day.
Link to more about the musical: https://www.yourrosegarden.com/
Animated in After Effects and Blender.
Styleframes Design
When I was developing the style, I was largely inspired by the artist Aaron Douglas, who created numerous WPA murals. The triple circles was designed to thread throughout the film as a reference to his use of shades and gradiants. To achieve this 2D painterly silhouette look while maintaining the feeling of moving through the 3D space, I stylized the 3D models and rendered with a combination of 3D and 2D environments.