A Sighting
A girl tasks herself with documenting the mysterious squirrel she finds in the woods.Animated with Toon Boom Harmony, composited with Adobe After Effects, with backgrounds painted with Clip Studio Paint.Duration: 3 minutes, 33 seconds
A Song from the Stars
A lonely fox travels the stars with his lute and his spaceship-forest, searching for the song of his lost love.Created with Toon Boom Harmony.Colour and Additional Art by Ashling Martin, music by Nat Wesley.Duration: 7 minutes, 1 second
Head Bowed,
Knees Damp,
Young Mangrove in the Mud
An interpretation of a hybrid music & musique concrete piece created by Roman, itself an interpretation of a visual score also created by Roman.Created generatively with Derivative Touch Designer, assets created traditionally by hand-carving stamps, touched-up for the film with Clip Studio Paint.Duration: 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Voices of the Ocean
An imagining of an underwater city.Created with Blender.Duration: 1 minute
Something Under the Bed
Roman's sister recounts her experience with an entity in our childhood home.Created with Flip Note Studio 3D for the Nintendo 3DS through a combination of hand-drawn animation and realtime video captured on-device.Duration: 31 seconds
Ticket to Dive
A woman catches a train to an unexpected place.Animated traditionally with pen and paper, digitised with Toon Boom Harmony, composited and post-produced with Adobe After Effects.Duration: 1 minute, 38 seconds
Roman is an animator, artist, writer, and sound designer working in Eora Sydney, who studied at the VCA in Melbourne.Their work often contrasts digital and traditional aesthetics, and they experiment with generative music, acousmatics, and abstract visuals.Their narrative work focuses on the diversity of relationships between person and place.