Animation Showreel

Bright and cheery text reading Tivis Mercer Timing Director

I recently had the pleasure of assembling Tivis’ professional animation work into a flashy showreel to present her skills and hopefully secure her further gigs! The last demo reel I put together was my own (a good decade ago, shh)…

Silentjuice

Black and white image of Lydia reading Handbook for the Recently Deceased in Beetlejuice (1988)

Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a silent film. Silvery B&W helps Lydia's Goth bonafides; the bureaucratic underworld looks Kafkaesque in a subtle shade of blue-green.

Rhapsody in Blu Year 2

My collection of films on Blu-ray as of March 2021. The number did grow from last time, but not exponentially– sometimes you purge before you binge buy. More watermarked indications of those distributors that put out the good stuff can…

the art of David Lynch – HD Remaster

A good 12 years ago (heretofore known as 1 Boyhood in temporal terms), my compatriots at Bennett Media published their video tribute to a man (and I’m talking about the Twin Peaks dude, here) whose singular work had already formed…