Topic: Animator of the Week: Jorden Davis (May 25, 2015)
Jorden Davis (JonnDthunDer), 17, is a brickfilmer who currently resides in Alaska. He estimates he's collected more than 100,000 LEGO pieces, and at the age of 12 he began putting them to use making animations. While at a brother's soccer game he grabbed his mother's camera and decided to make an animation with some LEGO he'd brought. Brickfilming at a soccer game is a rare start, but it was the only beginning for Jorden:
"The Batmobile ran over Two-Face and that was the end. After clicking through the pictures rapidly and getting the illusion of motion, that little taste of animation had me hooked and I’ve been animating ever since."
The film he holds as his best work so far is Perpetual Twilight, which was created for a contest on the BiM forums, 'Contrast.' The film won that competition, and went on to win a Film Challenge through Sneak on the Lot and was played on national television as part of the program Liberty Treehouse. It also won DSLRguide's 5000 subscribers special. He plans to expand on the film with a novel adapted from its story.
Davis is interested in expanding into other areas of brickfilming in the future:
"I always enjoy doing voice acting or giving feedback on a script, as time allows. Recently I’ve begun composing my own music for my films, and would love to try and work with others should someone need a beginning composer. That’s really the beauty of places like Bricks In Motion. It allows the members to get feedback or help with films and idea, and is an environment where like-minded members can come together to work on a film and create a work of art that may have started as an idea in a bored child’s head."
He's also dual-enrolled in high school and university courses, and enjoys swimming competitively and playing with his two cats.
Have you ever made a brickfilm at a live sporting event? Are you looking for a composer? Let's find out together in this discussion topic.