Shout from the Mountain Top

This year I helped Weber State University with a Holiday E-Card that is emailed to University employees, students and members of the local community. The University chose to create a 2D animation of their mascot Waldo sending a music greeting to the campus from the a nearby mountain top. Hillary Wallace, Rachel Badali and Ben Zack came up with the story. Ryan Snarr illustrated the characters and sets and I did the animation and editing.

Here is the animation plus a few images.

The animation features Waldo the Wildcat. Waldo is the Weber State University mascot that was created by Dean Hurst. He is seen skating on a pond and later climbing the mountains east of campus with a giant bag.

Ryan Snarr created a few extra characters in the animation like these ducks that listen to Waldo’s music.

Ryan illustrated this snow shoe scene. It was cut to trim down the length of the video.