Cel Animation

A selection of projects made with agencies and Illustrators

Agencies

Scholar

Valorant game changers 'Championship'

I animated the following sections for this fantastic anime-inspired short for the video game Valorant. I've included the rough animation I completed, all shorts were taken from rough to final. You can see the final short here.

Brand Partner
Scholar

Story By
Riot Games, Macauley Johnson, Ana Chang

Creative Director
Macauley Johnson

Animation Director
Alex Bernas

Storyboards
Mark Yates

Cel Animators
Aivy Nguyen, Alex Bernas, Ana Chang, Danni Fisher-Shin, Zach Herdman, Barbara Benas, Billy Mpetha, Bruno de Mendonca, Deco Daviola, Laura Yilmaz, Michael Relth, Olivia Blanc, Romario Clark

Art Director
Ana Chang

Partizan

Chase 'First bank'

Directed By: Colin Hesterly
Production: Partizan
Storyboards: Mark Evan Lim
Design: Marika Cowan, Julia Trouvé, Colin Hesterly
2D Animation: Melisa Farina, Billy Mpetha, Josh Parker, Taylor Peters
Compositing: Preston Gibson

A really fun advert with lots of traditional animation and complex characters, I handled the Cel animation from rough to final for the following sequences, You can see the full short here.

Gala Bingo 'If bingo calls'

Directed By: Colin Hesterly
Production: Partizan
Compositing: Colin Hesterly
2D Animation: Billy Mpetha

Working with Partizan and Colin again, these were a set of individual short animations for Gala Bingo. I handled the Cel animation from rough to final, with Colin bringing the elements together. The character designs were simpler in this spot, so the animation could be bouncy and expressive. You can see the full short here.

Very True Story

Yohana 'Brand Video' and '5 Year Vision'

Client: Yohana
Director: Adam Glickfield
Producer: Kristin Almy
Design: Marco Cheatham
Animation: Billy Mpetha, Melisa Farina

Sound Design: Jennifer Pague

For the Yohana 'Brand Video', I handled half of the shorts' total run time, working on the Cel animation from rough to final. You can see the full short here. In the '5 Year Vision I worked on the first chunk up till the meditation scene and the last chunk from the kitchen scene. These were dream projects! Getting to handle large sections of character animation and figuring out fun transitions from scene to scene. See the full shorts here.

OHA “Save Lives Oregon”

Client: Oregon Health Authority
Director: Adam Glickfield
Producer: Kristin Almy
Design/Illustration: Renaud Lavency
Storyboarding: Renaud Lavency, Daniel Cordero
Animation: Melisa Farina, Billy Mpetha
Sound Design: Jennifer Pague

This was another short for VTS where I was tasked with animating half the short, I handled the Cel animation from rough to final for the following sequence. You can see the full short here. This was another dream project for an important topic with great design and direction. See the full short here.

BLINKINK

Mcdonolads - Welcome to Camp Mcdonald's

Client: Mcdonolds
Director: Jack Brown
Design: Joy Lee

I handled the Cel animation for the rough animation for the following sequences and characters, scroll along to see the full short. The characters where detailed so this was a really fun challenge to get the movement while keeping characters on model.

YATTA

Camden Hells

Agency - Studio Juice
Storyboards - Studio Juice

Sound - Adam Legg

Illustration - Ben Marsh
Cel Animation - Billy Mpetha

Meanwhile

Agency - Meanwhile

Illustration - Ben Marsh
Cel Animation - Billy Mpetha

Illustrators

Work with individual Illustrators / agents.

Agent Pekka & Linn Fritz

I absolutely love working individually with illustrators to bring their work to life. Over the last 5 years I have worked on numerous projects for Linn Fritz and her agent, Agent Pekka on projects for websites/ brand videos and campaigns. Linn has an amazing style that is so fun to animate and works great with clean vector animation, check out some of the work below.

Cleverly

Agent - Agent Pekka