This was my first animation. The characters, Noof the squirrel and his best friend Norby the turtle, I created in Illustrator class when the assignment was literally to create a composition with characters, a project I was obviously very enthusiastic to be assigned. I am very grateful for that class because these characters have become dear to me and have worked their way into my future book. My passion is traditional hand-drawn animation and what I hope to work in someday. Created originally in Adobe Flash and Photoshop, I edited this project over this past Christmas to strengthen it with the addition of music and sound effects as well as a new title sequence. This will always be my favorite of my animations because at a time when I was still new in my major and losing confidence in my abilities, the completion of this film with Noof and Norby inspired me to not give up on my emphasis in Digital Media.

Original thumbnail storyboards below: