Music: SAMBA TEMPERADO 2015 by You & Explosion Band
Credits for each project below 👇
Gunner School class of Fall 2025
(plus an online student who joined us for the final showcase)
What's Gunner School?
Short answer: a 3-month educational program for animators who are new grads or starting their career. 8 in-person students are assigned to a studio in Detroit and given 1-week, 2-week, and group project briefs to complete.
Long answer: visit www.gunner.school
My Experience
I was paired with 1 other student at Lunar North. There, we received daily support and weekly feedback from the incredibly talented artists, PLUS free soup on Mondays :D.
I also spent my Fridays and weekends (yes, some of us chose to work on weekends—not because we had to, but because we wanted to. The joys of being young and full of energy) at Boxfort.
Brief #1: Less is More
1 week: animate a set of 3 icons for UI/UX
*animated in Cavalry
Brief #2: What a Feeling
2 weeks: Design and animate characters based on an emotion
*animated in Cavalry
Brief #3: Logo Animations
1 week: Create motion that feels good and captures a brand
Brief #4: Flip the Script
2 weeks (group): create a short animation with voiceover
My role: animated the bottom bread face, the jar's face, the jar spin, and voiced the jar
My role: bottom bread face animation, jar face animation, jar spin animation, jar voice
Kate Bonello: Illustrated designs, top bread voice, hand animation, music + sfx
Shuxiang Huang: face designs, remaining animation
Brief #5: Photomation
1 week: create an animation using photos
Brief #6: Sports Graphics
2 weeks: animate stadium graphics for a sports team
Brief #7: Storytime
3 weeks (group): create a short animation telling a story
My role: Animated everything before the fade at 0:19
Designs by Maria Colin-Chavez
Audio + remaining animation (done in Blender) by Liliana Cantillo
Bonus: Animation Jam
2 Days (group): create a 30s animation about "community"
My role: Computer character design + animation, animation for all boxes + text bubbles, SFX
Tamara Davis: Main background design (0:00–0:24), panda character design + animation (0:06), music
Megan Rizzo: Park background design (0:24–end), dog character (0:08) design + animation
Dylan Curtis: Alien characters (0:04) design + animation
Montanna Palazzola: Blob character (0:10) design + animation
If you have any questions or would like to see more work from any of these projects, don't hesitate to reach out!
