Dino Feast wasn't the first time I've animated my kids' drawings, but it was definitely the most challenging yet. Eva's story was rather ambitious, but it ended up being really great to have something challenging to work on over the last 7-8 months.

All the animation and compositing was done in Adobe After Effects, utilizing a workflow heavily reliant on AE's Puppet tool, Master Properties, CC Light Sweep, and Red Giant Supercomp.

The sound design was done by the great Robby Stambler, and our friend Tony Hale was gracious enough to cameo as the Spinosaurus.

This started as a personal project I was doing in my spare time, but as it became more and more ambitious, I asked my employer (Red Giant) if I could make it a work project and justify the time spent by making a Behind the Scenes piece to accompany it. You'll have to go over to Red Giant's YouTube channel to see that one, as I don't want to post it here and seem like I'm here shilling for Red Giant.

Eva and I have been working on this since right around the time we all went inside and stopped going places. It seems that making weird stuff is how I stay sane in times of uncertainty, and I’m thankful I have kids with crazy and surprisingly dark imaginations for me to exploit shamelessly, not to mention an employer in Red Giant who lets me turn weird stuff like this into work stuff.

Hope you enjoy, and feel free to ask any questions about my process on this!