This project was created as part of my residence at Gunner School.
Outside Vibes
Create a mood board with reference from outside the Motion Design / Animation world. Then you’ll create a short animation or series of animated illustrations inspired by the mood board that you built.
- Ocean Fairbanks (Designer-Animator)
- Amy Sundin-Unger (Program Director)
- Vans (Showcased Brand)
- Cyberlove Garden (Printmaking Space)
Footage Credit
Vans Skateboarding Presents: Lizzie Armanto’s “Onward”
Summer 2025, I bought an enterprise grade laser printer primarily for zine-making endeavors. The printer weighs +300lbs and her name is Bertha. She’s stored at my artist collective, Cyberlove Garden, alongside other members’ printers.
When I received this brief from Gunner School, I knew I wanted to take inspriation from, skateboarding, my primary form of exercise, and use Bertha to create an animation.
Unexpectedly, the idea to make it a spec ad for Vans came from finding the red checkerboard pattern printed on a Risograph in the scrap pile at Cyberlove.
Over two weeks, I invited analog media into my process through collage. I had to rescan my pages 3 times to settle on a DPI that would give me enough resolution.
The result is a project that truly embodies the ethos of skate culture, and explores the possibilities of my printmaking equipment.