MURO Beside the scenes
Director Writer Producer
JAVIER BARBOZA
Puppet Fabricator
Sequoyah Madison
Joan Hui Ko
Set Fabricator
Warren Rush
Props Fabricator
Warren Rush
Jake Vasquez
Lead Animators
Aaron Holmes
Joan Hui Ko
Animator
Jack Nop
2D Animation
Ambrosio Garcia Jr
Visual Effect Composting
Reggie LaMar Ford
Allison Power
Additional, VFX Director, Animator, Set fab, Character Designer , Storyboards, Background Layout, prop designer
Javier Barboza
Storyboards & Animatics
Nose Hair, Animatic End segment
Directed by Lou Morton
After playing a smelly game with his friends young Nate discovers that he has an unusual condition.
Learn more about the senses of smell and taste in this educational children's short, produced with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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El Elotero, Corn Boy. 2012, USC 3rd year film. Annenberg scholar grant.
The Elotero tells the story of an illegal immigrant from Mexico named
Juan, age 14 and the odd jobs he and others like him must do in the
hopes of a better life. One day on his vending route, his classmate
and school crush, Carmen recognizes him. The lower class status,
undocumented immigrant stereotype and stigma associated with the
elotero profession are all central elements to the film. The subject
of cultures and subcultures within minority groups, specifically
between American and foreign-born people of the same ethnicity
underlies tension between Carmen and Juan
Calls from Home https://www.callsfromhomefilm.com/
Calls from Home . In an intimate portrait of rural prison expansion, CALLS FROM HOME, documents WMMT-FM’s longstanding radio show that sends messages over the public airwaves to reach those incarcerated in Central Appalachia.
Directed by Sylvia Ryerson, a former DJ for the radio show, the film shares the stories of the family and friends who call in, and those who listen in from prison, portraying the many forms of distance that rural prison building creates—and the ceaseless search to end this system of mass incarceration and family separation.
Javier Barboza was director/producer of animation, which premiered at Yale university. Where the director Sylvia is currently a PhD candidate in journalism. Film is currently making the festival runs.
Jihad Rehab documentary film about Guantanamo Bay Prisoners. I was involved in the early stages of story boards & visual development in 2018. Immediately I saw this film was problematic how the people/ prisoners Interviewed of middle eastern descent where portrayed locked up in Git’Mo Bay Prison. No trial, No evidence. I worked on it cuz the big homie recommended me for this doc. Cool concept but misleading approach from the director. I was not part of the film at all…It premiered at different film festivals with a lot of backlash with Middle Eastern communities. This is the storyboards that I worked on for a few months
BRONZE, BRASS, JAZZ is a surreal documentary journey of a place and time that lasted for roughly three years in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles in the 1940's when the Japanese were incarcerated during WWII.
Its name was Bronzeville and among the many thousands of African-Americans who lived, worked, and owned businesses there, were places known as Breakfast Clubs; late night diners and bars that was home to a booming jazz scene...where a band's first set began at 1am and breakfast was served for those just getting off work in the early morning. In this 3-minute VR animation, a phantasm of Charlie Parker roams these same Bronzeville streets as he has before, replaying the same gig at Finale Club (230 1/2 East First Street) every night for all eternity, while history continues to repeat itself like a dream.
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Lyd in Exile. A Sci-Fi documentary film. Where Palestine and Israel coexist together. I was part of the first animation team for a stop motion animation. This is the animatic. It had a segment of an alternate world depicted in stop motion animation, budgeted issues.