Gabriel Aronson

Reel Breakdown

This is my final round submission to a competition held by the History Channel and Aniboom competition. My prize-winning entry, which allowed me the spot in the finals can be seen below:

This piece is a commission by BBC comedy for the second series of That Mitchell and Webb Look. The audio is from Mitchell and Webb’s radio show That Mitchell and Webb Sound which I transformed into an animated sketch, contributing visual gags of my own.

Credits

Inspired by the oft gruesome origins of nursery rhymes, I wrote my own rhyme based on a more contemporary scandal. I was inspired by pre-cinema animation and storytelling techniques that were used to portray both children’s stories and riskier fair. The catchy music is by Max Perryment.

This piece experiments with conveying characters through simple forms.

This ad was produced for Virgin Comics to promote for Nicolas Cage’s Voodoo Child at comic-book conventions.

This response to a kinetic typography brief imagines Sarah Palin’s thought process as a broken projector, combining imagery of Real America with the sensationalism of civil defense films and atomic-era sci-fi kitsch.

I created the scrabble-board inspired titles and end credits for this short film by Sam Bailey.

This ad appeared on Times Square's Astrovision Screen.

During my time in London I worked on several of David Wilson's projects at Blink Productions including his Music Video Award-winning promo for Moray McLaren's "We Got Time". Initially I assisted in coloring the record labels, and doing some After Effects compositing. However, after pre-production, David cast me as the wolfman that appears in the second part of the video! The lower half of my face is now immortalized in a music video! Check it out!

The second project I worked on for David involved producing the animatic for this stop-motion video. In addition I helped out on set, making changes to the storyboard as needed, helping out with the stop-motion animation and assisting the art director.