Me in CG

Here is a 3d scan, of yours truly, done at the GDC in San Francisco last week. My friend said I look like a Grand Theft Auto character. I take that as a compliment.

BlackHeart Music Video

Romance Fantasy Blackheart Music Video by Dax from dax norman on Vimeo.
I approached making this music video as if it were a concert light show.

Why are you floating up there/ hey who ya lookin at?

Why are you floating up there/ hey who ya lookin at?
I made this painting as a birthday gift for my wife.
The title is basically a description of what I think is going on in the painting.

A word is hidden in this piece.

Rooster with Teeth

Napoleon, Skeleton

Disneyland, Summer 1984

That is me with the Mickey Mouse ears (unaware that this was not intended to be a photograph of me) HaHa, my Dad is the Coolest!

Frank Finkerton at Spike N Mike Sick and Twisted

here is a shot i took wit me Iphone.

what that frame looks like in the short:

No, we're not really matching as much as it looks, or maybe we were and I failed to notice


At the Alamo Drafthouse in my hometown of Houston. We are at the Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Animation show, which includes the "Last Temptation Of Crust!" We had a blast. It was the first time for me to see one of my creations on the big screen, and in a very fitting way, seeing spike and Mike shows at the Alamo in downtown Austin was very influential in my wanting to learn animation.
Frank was in good company, too. i think the show is in San Antonio this week, catch it if it roolls to your town.

Off Centered Film Fest Winner!

Psychedelic Dogfish Head Beer Cartoon Commercial by Dax from dax norman on Vimeo.

Off Centered Film Fest Contest Winners

Dog Dog Dog, Fishy Fish Fish
Swee-austin!

Video Artistic Purpose

these videos are how I see the world.
I live in a world where it is really hard to sit through a whole movie in one sitting. I like to see more than one image at once, a bombardment of images. Coincidentally, this is the way society does us, nowadays.

For example: In this video, not only is one part of:

1a man walking/
2 an alligator talking/
3 a smoker stalking

it is all three of these at the same time! In this way, these are very much micro stories which (loosely) connect to each other, but perhaps mostly in my own mind.

Nobody else can make what is in my own mind for me to see, so that is why I do it myself, whether it be paintings, animation, or anything else I feel like doing.
-Dax

My Family