Green #1 in D Minor

A Green Guy. A Yellow Girl. Blue Wah-wahs. A story with no dialogue, just music, dance, watercolor, crayon, and a lot of paper. Visit www.jakefriedman.net

Animation inspired by the Hubleys, Frederic Back, Bruno Bozzetto, Bill Melendez, John Canemaker, and cool bits I'd seen on Sesame Street throughout the years.

Done as my senior thesis film at NYU animation in 2004. It's really about the two sides of a psyche battling over what it really, truly wants. Does it want what the Blue Guys have in their group, or what the Yellow Girl has all by herself? It's a story of the same struggle that popped up along my journey time and time again, and I think I was only able to rectify it after I was quit an internship from a top kids' show produced in New York.

This film has won some awards across the country and has been screened internationally, by I really appreciate it most when people say "Yeah, man, I get that."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• cartoon
• green
• minor
• jake
• friedman
• dance
• watercolor
• crayon
• musical

[dustingrella]

love the music for the little girl, so fresh and alive!!! If I had a soundtrack for my life I would want it to be that music.

[dustingrella]

this is awesome!!!!



[RabinWorldwide]

I looked up Hubleys to find a film that inspired me to do animation (which all my life became video compositing). I am teaching keyframing in Final Cut today and somehow found your film. It was so cute, I had to see it to the end. Hope you are still doing animation of some form.

Denise video4dvd

[b00i00d]

brilliant ! ! ! and lerner's score is awesome!

[izuna13013]

very nice! i bet that took a while

[FederalTongue]

the way the yellow girl dances reminds me of mowgli from the jungle book

[salamiqueen]

Okay, I finally watched them all, Jake. And my, I had no idea how good they were going to be. See you on Thursday.....

-S

[rose120]

its amaizing great job.

[Jhepperl]

WEll done, Jake! I like the freeze-frame at the end.

[EnPassion]

Really cute, I like it. I guess I'm the 1st one who rated it on IMDb.:)

Keep up with good work. Good luck!