Paper Jam is an animated short centered around a play on words (paper jam = paper for the printer, jam for the music, get it?) The characters are designed after CMYK - printer ink. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black are all jamming at a party with other ink when Yellow trips over the speaker cable and throws off the music, causing a screeching sound mocking the whirs of a printer as the printer itself spits out a paper with the short's title.

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This animation short was based on a hand-drawn animation project of the same design. The original illustrations detailed the character designs and chunks of the storyboard that were expanded in the computer animation. The computer animation added character fluidness and color that didn't come across in the hand drawn version. 

 

Programs: Photoshop, Character Animator, AfterEffects, iMovie

Media: Digital media