We've had a long-running joke at my house that our pug, Theo, "shoots lasers" when he yawns and is a chaotic evil creature from the lower planes of existence.
I wanted to create an animation that tells a story about Theo and answers the age old question of "what do dogs dream about?"
DRAEMS was an Animation collaboration for Design Week Portland 2017
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This fire was created using shape layers and multiple instances of the CC Particle Systems II effect.
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