Animations by Brian H. Hoard

Please enjoy these animation samples. I encourage you to post your comments, share them with your friends, and hopefully allow me to do something for you.

The Amazing Elwood

This is a short piece I animated in collaboration with Elwood Smith. We are always trying to find something to work together on, so this was an exercise for us to do something simple and just have fun with it. "The Amazing Elwood" is a story about a man who believes even the smallest things that he has done in life are amazing things. Even something as simple as bouncing a little red ball.

Mondo Luigi, Scene 1 "Baby Luigi"

One of the first times Elwood and I worked together was on the Mondo Luigi animated short. We actually have about 10 of these we hope to complete. An exercise in taking Elwood's original artwork, story, and music, and bringing it into the world of 3D Animation. Mondo Luigi is told by Claudio Marzollo, who reminisces of a time long ago, and the events of his old feline friend, Luigi.

Mondo Luigi, Scene 5 "Jungle Cat"

When Wendell, the small mouse, plays his music in the jungle beneath the trees, he fears not. Because he has a friend in the trees, a friend so fierce that even the rhinoceros trembles.

The Amazing Elwood - Behind the Scenes

Animator, Brian Hoard shows all in the making of The Amazing Elwood.