Since last fall, I’ve been laying the groundwork with some colleagues for an artist collective(? I’m not sure that’s the right term) for animation collaborations. A talented Portland band, Micromassé, recently released an amazing new album…a 40 minute suite of music (played together) composed around the theme of positivity in the face of adversity. It’s a great album – each song has a different feel to it, yet they all go together. I was asked to create a music video for one of the tracks, and I reached out to Bomb Diggity Arts, another amazing local group which provides a range of experiences for adults with intellectual and often physical disabilities. A group of their artists, and one of their directors, animated some sequences which I intermixed with my own animations. This is what we came up with: