‘Leaving’ trailer, personal work starts at 2:00
‘Leaving’ (Upcoming – 2025)
Funded by a BAI (Brown Arts Initiative) grant, ‘Leaving’ is a short documentary about seasonal patterns in Maine as experienced by the director Davis Jackson’s grandmother, Joan, who grew up in rural Maine and now lives there with vascular dementia. Part live-action and part stop-motion-style 3D animation, this project explores how the patterns of his grandmother's life persist beyond her explicit memories in extrapersonal archives, discovered through Joan's daughters' stories of her life in the forests and beaches of Maine.
Personal work includes developing animation art direction, creating 2D frame by frame animation to be put into 3D environments.
2025-2026
Director: Davis Jackson
Cinematographer/3D Animator: Davis Jackson
2D Animator: Addie Clark
2D Character Animation – Personal Work Reel
mock-up – colored 2D animation composited over 3D background (Photoshop, After Effects)
initial rough storyboard – experimenting with 2D shots in a 3D rotating environment
Art Direction / Style Development
moodboard
style explorations
pencil animation test
marker animation tests
coloring animation tests