Peeled Productions
Beginning in 2020, myself, Jon DiNapoli and Harrison Ritchie-Jones began collaborating on Peeled Productions. We produce commisioned work and our own stories, exploring our shared interest in movement and visual storytelling.
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Core team
Harrison Ritchie-Jones (Choreographer, dancer, animator, director)
Jon's DiNapoli (Animator, environment artist)
Nick Roder (Composer)
Peeled is defined by our combination of 2D and 3D techniques, blending illustrative visuals with rotoscoping and 3D camera tracking.
Under the Peeled name we've produced work for independant filmmakers Dogmilk Films and researchers at University of Melbourne.
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My role in Peeled.
My contribution to Peeled projects ranges from concept art and visual development to storyboarding, shooting reference footage, compositing, 3D modeling and animation.
Peeled Productions Showreel
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Spectral Planes - 2020 (ongoing)
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An episodic journey into the mind at large.
Filmed at Mount Macedon and Darebin Parklands in Melbourne.
Rotoscoped, illustrated and composited with love over many months.
More to come (when we have time).
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My contributions include backgrounds, visual development, reference footage and compositing.
Above Water - 2022
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Humanitarian documentary short detailing the mistreatment of shipworkers abandoned at sea.
Directed by Alex Walton and produced by Dogmilk Films, we contributed animated sections illustrating the stories told by shipworkers abandoned and stranded at sea for months at a time.
Above Water on Dogmilk's Website
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My contributions to Above Water include a combination of hand painted backgrounds and textures, 3D models and animation in Blender while Jon produced the talking head segments.
Selected Works
Melbourne, Australia
Instagram: TheStrangeTourist
Email: [email protected]
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