Show Reel 2020
Made from a selection of jobs & personal work, primarily using Adobe After Effects.
Animation & Music: Dana Schechter
View selected full examples below - many more projects on my Vimeo Channel
"Emperor of All Maladies", PBS/Schweble Studios
(Animation, Design, Compositing)
A three-part, six-hour TV series that "Examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion."
Original animated/illustrated content was drawn, filmed, and combined with particle systems. Dir. Barack Goodman, Executive producer Ken Burns. Aired March 2015.
(Animation, Compositing, Design, Photo Manipulation, Typography)
Feature Documentary, 2013
Visual counterpart to Samantha Powers' narration about Soghomon Tehlirian and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey in 1921. Watchers of The Sky won the Sundance 2013 Special Jury Prize for Animation.
Dir. Edet Belzberg, 2013
Garden Song, Personal Work
Created solely for fun and testing, using paper scraps, photography, archival botanical illustrations, and textures found/photographed on the streets and subways of NYC.
"Seeds of Time - Cary Bio", Isotope Films, NYC
(Design, Animation, Compositing)
Feature documentary. Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change. This section details the early life of Cary Fowler using photographs and documents from Fowler's personal archives.
Dir. Sandy McLeod, 2013.
Fanta - Pitch from Dana Schechter on Vimeo.
Animation of client artwork.UPS "Gladiator" from Dana Schechter on Vimeo.
Digital compositing of 3D animation in After Effects.The Watsons - ACE Study from Dana Schechter on Vimeo.
Type design & animation.Women Who Rock - Opening titles from Dana Schechter on Vimeo.
Design, Animation, Compositing. Many more projects on my Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/channels/danaschechter