Illustration
![The "Little" Mermaid](assets/images/gallery01/1e03e030_original.jpg?v=33b9e46f "The "Little" Mermaid")
Films
Animation Tests
Official Selection
Monster Party is a first year student film made for
Concordia University’s Film Animation program.
The film is intended to be a kind-spirited reflection on feeling like an oddball and trying to fit in with peers. The VHS aesthetic is a callback to classic monster films, as well as to the nostalgia of old home movies.
This was an opportunity to experiment with mixed media and blending multiple animation styles. The goal was to get a feel for what animation as a medium could do while trying to adapt my style into each of them.
Each character represents a different style including classic 2D, rotoscope, under camera stop motion, paper cut-outs, live-action animation, and CGI with all the backgrounds being miniature sets and paintings.
Coming soon!
Best Adaptation 2025H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Official Selection
Fantasia Film Festival - 2025
Happenstance Horror Fest - 2025
Blood in the Snow Film Festival - 2025
Made as a second year student film over the course of 15 weeks.
I was 11 years old when I picked up my first collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories. One in particular, The Outsider, resonated with me as a child struggling with isolation and bullying. As I got older and began to understand myself as queer and neurodivergent, the story stayed with me and still holds a special place in my heart.
It is a straightforward tale to anyone familiar with the original, but this time with a more hopeful ending. It’s not wholly original; The short story also ends with the main character finding and befriending other ghouls, but that part is never adapted.
There is something very tragic to me that Lovecraft could write a story about an outsider finding community with other marginalized people, but it is still considered to be a sad story because they are unable to join “normal” society.
And so here is my reimagining; Through the horror of knowing you don’t belong, there is still a radical joy to be found among other outsiders.
Coming soon!
Official Selection:
Fantasia Film Festival - 2025
AltFF Alternative Film Festival - Spring 2025
Abiogenesis within machinery. New life begins and strives - before being cut short.
Staccato came about from a university project where we were tasked with creating a film from an asset library of short loops and audio clips each student contributed to.
It was a satisfying experiment in blending unrelated visual loops and sounds effects into an aesthetically unified piece.
Purson of Interest is my 2020 animation featuring a hard boiled detective chasing after a very important target...
The sound was redone in 2024 as part of a sound mixing course.
Made in Adobe Animate and finished in Premiere Pro
Animation tests
Robot walk cycle
Under Camera animation experimenting with waxed yarn as a medium.
Foray into stop motion animation...
"Monty" is a wireframe armature coated in foam and latex, and decorated with clay and 3D printed bones.
Two fairy lights run through the body to simulate the eyes and can be turned on and off for a "blinking" effect.
Shot in Dragonframe
I have a strong passion for both illustration and physical crafting and this guy was a school project experimenting with merging the two.
All stop motion animated and composited onto a photo background using
Photoshop and Clip Studio EX
The main body is polymer clay but the arms and hands are moulded out of modeling clay for poseability.
about
Arin Burnett is a Montreal based illustrator and animator with a particular love for fantasy and horror art.A graduate of Dawson College’s Illustration program and current student of Concordia University's Film Animation program, their art career was inspired early on by a love of comics and graphic novels, and their work is guided by that same bold, narrative-driven style.
(they also love to knit)
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Curriculum Vitae
Accordi@Disaccordi International Short Film Festival - 2024
Seamless tile pattern made for a variety of clothing and household products.
Selection of commissioned poster designs for Montreal bar and restaurant, Sir Winston Churchill Pub.
I worked for eight months on in-house design projects for the business.These are a few samples.
Product redesign project. Terry's Chocolate Orange (summer theme)
Selected gifs from MerMay 2023
Animated in Clip Studio EX
Collage project. Photographed elements mixed with digital painting.
Bouncing ball study done in Adobe Animate.
‧ Illustration ‧ Animation ‧ Comics ‧
Tribute to Jack Stauber, whose work is a huge inspiration to me.
Base portrait is an acrylic painting with stop motion clay photographed directly on top.
Finished in Clip Studio EX
Poster design for L'Affichiste.
Mika: Tiny Love Tiny Tour was meant to play in Montréal the summer of 2020.
‧ Illustration ‧ Animation ‧ Design ‧