My Newest Stop Motion Demo Reel is up!

Hey there! I'm just going to plug my current reel here and break it down (very) briefly below.

Hope you enjoy! Feel free to contact me about any jobs you would like to collaborate on or perform for you.

Reel Breakdown:
Essentially, everything in my current reel are all projects that I directed, produced, edited, composited and built from the ground up. The only shots in my reel where I only did the animation, are the shots that include the 'mad scientist' from the music video I worked on "Baby It's You!"

Reverie

So I recently finished up a new animated short I call, "Reverie."

This actually started out as an acting exercise... (as most of my projects do...) and I decided to just keep animating until I got bored. Unfortunately, I had to stop animating abrupting because I recently relocated from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles.

Oh god, don't even get me started on how much my laptop, that I had to use to shoot on, kept giving me problems throughout the whole shoot. I swear, I can't get a break when it comes to technology and having to wing everything. It really build character consequently, so I'll take it.

I should probably consider building a motion graphic portfolio soon.

A video posted by Rob Sassi (@stoprobsassi) on Jul 8, 2015 at 2:07pm PDT

Above is a shot of the basement I was working in. It's a clutter! Wouldn't have been the wiser.

And lastly, just a little still from the short.

Now onto editing together a new demo reel!

Passive Aggressive (An Abstract Claymation)

So I don't normally animate in just clay... and I wanted to try doing a ball bounce...

One thing led to another and here I was just doing whatever I felt like doing at that moment... I compiled more shots and put together this short abstract, emotionally based film I call "Passive Aggressive."

Held in, when released… an idea changes through perception and generally we can build our ideas together. When we die, our ideas will still be here.

Setting up Stop Motion Studio Space

 I just recently bought a Canon EOS T2i Rebel, so I could start animating in stop motion again!

I'm slowly building up the equipment I would need to produce professional quality stop motion from home!

I decided to break in my new camera with a quick test lip sync with an older puppet I built over the summer... you might remember him! ;)

I rushed into this, but it's been awhile anyway... so I'm a tad rusty!

I'm just glad I can produce more content now! :)