"Box of Tricks" was my graduation film at university, and followed the imaginative adventures of a young boy named Daniel. The project was entirely hand-drawn, then cleaned up, scanned into computer, and animated and coloured in Macromedia Flash. The backgrounds were made using Adobe Photoshop. Please click on the boxes below to view some stills from the cartoon:

"Box Of Tricks" was originally conceived as a 10 minute animated short, but a 3 minute scene was made to fulfill the university project brief. Here is some previously unseen conceptial artwork from the still planned 10 minute version:

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