EMOTION
This series explores core emotions through looping animated paintings. I approached each one like a vignette, distilling a moment of feeling into color, rhythm, and gesture.
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Inspired by video game sprite animation, I painted each background traditionally, then created character “sprites” on separate layers to animate digitally.
The result is something between a painting and a living memory: painterly textures that stutter and breathe, revealing emotion not through words or sound, but through movement, posture, and space.
To animate each emotion, I started by painting all elements traditionally with acrylic—capturing mood through brushstroke, texture, and light. I then scanned the figures and backgrounds separately and used Photoshop to digitally construct each frame of the animation.
Rather than animating expressive action, I animated stillness—moments just before or just after something changes. In doing so, each loop becomes a quiet portrait of what that emotion feels like, not just what it looks like.
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SQUANBERT.COM
©2025
EMOTION
This series explores core emotions through looping animated paintings. I approached each one like a vignette, distilling a moment of feeling into color, rhythm, and gesture.
Know More
Inspired by video game sprite animation, I painted each background traditionally, then created character “sprites” on separate layers to animate digitally.
The result is something between a painting and a living memory: painterly textures that stutter and breathe, revealing emotion not through words or sound, but through movement, posture, and space.
To animate each emotion, I started by painting all elements traditionally with acrylic—capturing mood through brushstroke, texture, and light. I then scanned the figures and backgrounds separately and used Photoshop to digitally construct each frame of the animation.
Rather than animating expressive action, I animated stillness—moments just before or just after something changes. In doing so, each loop becomes a quiet portrait of what that emotion feels like, not just what it looks like.
More Works
SQUANBERT.COM
©2025
EMOTION
This series explores core emotions through looping animated paintings. I approached each one like a vignette, distilling a moment of feeling into color, rhythm, and gesture.
Know More
Inspired by video game sprite animation, I painted each background traditionally, then created character “sprites” on separate layers to animate digitally.
The result is something between a painting and a living memory: painterly textures that stutter and breathe, revealing emotion not through words or sound, but through movement, posture, and space.
To animate each emotion, I started by painting all elements traditionally with acrylic—capturing mood through brushstroke, texture, and light. I then scanned the figures and backgrounds separately and used Photoshop to digitally construct each frame of the animation.
Rather than animating expressive action, I animated stillness—moments just before or just after something changes. In doing so, each loop becomes a quiet portrait of what that emotion feels like, not just what it looks like.
More Works
©2025