Circular

A mailman must deliver an unusual piece of mail.

  • Chase Nickoles
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 21, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Animation
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Director Biography - Chase Nickoles

Chase Nickoles is a 22-year-old artist, animator, and videographer with a background in graphic design, digital photography, drawing, painting, and printmaking. He recently received a BFA in animation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has an Associate of Arts & Sciences, Visual Arts Concentration from Carroll Community College. During his time at Carroll, he was the Fine Arts Club 2020 member of the year, Curators Choice Award 2020 winner, and a dual work-study animator and media aid.

In the summer of 2022, he took a motion design internship with Baltimore-based Early Light Media, and in 2019, after being the Maryland STEM 2019 Art Festival contest college winner, he had his art hung up at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Additionally, he creates performance and narrative music videos for performing artist devoN Nickoles.

He hopes to soon start a career in television and film animation.

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Director Statement

This animation was created as my After Effects final for ART447 Motion and Compositing under Brandon Waltman at UMBC. For this project, I wanted to tie in the reoccurring mail truck from the past animations of that semester's assignments into the narrative. Additionally, I thought it would be fun to bring back my old characters from when I was young as the main characters, turning the animation into a celebration of my past 10 years of animation.