Music Video Inspiration

My initial inspiration was one of the student theses I saw upon first applying to CADA, called "Ringo" by Shehar Levavi, in which a creature sang a Louis Armstrong song to itself in the mirror. The idea of animating a character all the way through to lip sync was exciting and from that point on I've wanted to animate dialogue.
Both my undergraduate thesis, "At the Eleventh Hour" and an earlier project I produced at CADA, "The Temptation of the Elephant" incorporate music throughout and the animation and music are coordinated to relate to one another. So the idea of creating a thesis as a music video was a very intriguing one, however, music rights are hard to come by. When I discovered that the older brother of my two of my co-workers, Justin Catalino, was a musician who had produced a CD ("Welcome to Vacationland"), it seemed like a perfect opportunity to promote his work while creating a professional thesis for my portfolio. After getting Justin's excited approval, I listened to the CD mulitple times and finally settled on "When the Sky is Falling" as the song with the most possibility and that meshed well with my musical tastes.