Lupito

Introducing Lupito, a short I made for the Calarts 48 hr films. The theme was cactus.

Birth control and Beyond

Sunha and I designed, story boarded and animated this piece for Click to Play Media and The University of California San Fransisco. We kept the house stocked with a steady supply of Costco croissants and instant coffee in order to complete the project. I now know more than I ever thought I would about alternate methods of birth control.

ACID commercial

The finished spot

ACID~ a fragrance by Paul Smith from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

Still shots





Rough story boards


Character Designs



Sunha Yoon and I worked on this spec commercial earlier this year. The job was made for/ with Fortune Cookie made up of show creator Ben Wolfinsohn and esteemed commercial director Pierluca de Carlo. The direction for the look and was inspired by the film A Bout de Souffle. Sunha did backgrounds, fx and compositing while I co-wrote, designed, fx animated, storyboarded, layed out, and animated it. The project was done using pencil and paper, photoshop and after effects. Production took about a month.

animated painting

For the next mashup drawing, I decided that it'd be fun to see it animated. Its like Noah's Ark meets the civil war, meets the A team. I once again joined forces with composer, sound designer Kyle Blanton Ross http://www.kyleblantonross.com. Its kind of an excercise, kind of an experiment, kind of fun to see these different elements smashed together into one flu nighmare inducing animation.

Evolution

A quick animation study done in Corny Cole's class. In an attempt to dissect the nature of human evolutionary trends. I found that the animated medium was of value in our quest for truth ok.

LIFELINE

The cover

designed by Barney Patterson

The film

Lifeline from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

Some stills






concept drawing





the factory


the professor


the morph


very early story beats


some storyboards



This is just some of the preproduction process of "Lifeline," my fourth year film at Calarts. I could never have finished this film without the help of my amazing girlfriend Sunha Yoon. Check out the website http://lifelinefilm.blogspot.com/

Garuda

the flyer by Alexis and Mailys


the film

Garuda from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

some animation





little Indian boy research

story beats




environment studies
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some story boards by Nicolas and myself




Here is the group project that I worked on during my exchange at L'école des Gobelins. The group consisted of Nicolas ATHANE, Meryl FRANCK, Alexis LIDDELL, Maïlys VALLADE and myself. I learned a lot from my group and feel lucky to have met them. I worked on story boarding and animating the film.

Th00d for F0ught

heres a quick guy i made for petes sake: bon appetite!

prepare to die

prepare to die
envoyé par sandwichhands

A little flash excercise done while at gobelins. Please be weary of six fingered swordsmen...

the pirahana factor

A bunch of us made some 48 hr films at calarts, the word was pirahna. Its not a cookie, its a fig Newton.

The Deadline

The Deadline from Andres Salaff on Vimeo.

The Deadline is my second year film from Calarts. It is heavily inspired by the writings of Latin American surrealist writers Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. I was exposed to their works while I was studying Latin American Literature at the Ohio State University before attending Calarts. As usual the story went through many phases before reaching the one that was made, its was far trippier before and maybe a little less comprehensible, believe it or not. The final outcome ended up being a competition of sorts between the two writers as to who can finish their books.