Highlighted projects
POV: You’re a Karamatsu Girl
3D Animation (Maya)
Made for IAT 343 (Animation) as my very first dive into 3D modelling and animation, taken at SFU in Spring 2023. I was project lead, director, and concept/storyboard artist. The primary character model was modelled, rigged, and textured by me, including all facial animations as hand-drawn 2D animations. The majority of shots in the last third of the video were animated by me. This project was a huge exercise for me as a team lead and director and pushed me to my limits of art both 2D and 3D, though primarily focused on 3D modelling/animation. Click through below to see a more in-depth detailed breakdown of the creation process.
I’m At Soup
Kinetic Typography
Made for IAT 100 (Digital Image Design) Project 3, taken at SFU in Summer 2020. All graphics and animations in this were created by myself for this project in Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, and After Effects. This project combined several of my skills into one polished project focused on motion graphic animation. Click through below to see a more in-depth detailed breakdown of the creation process.
To the Otter Who Snuck Into the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Garden and Ate All the Koi
2D animated/live-action video poem
Made for IAT 344 (Moving Images) and entered into the Vancouver Poet Laureate competition, taken at SFU in Spring 2023. I was co-director, storyboard artist, animator, visual effects, and editor. This project primarily focused on 2D animation, visual effects, and editing. Click through below to see a more in-depth detailed breakdown of the creation process.
Illustration spotlight:
The Lolita Power Fantasy
Painted in Clip Studio Paint, September 2020. Created for a class assignment.
This was meant to be a subversion of the typical male power fantasy in popular culture with a slight twist. I think there’s a very sore lack of very strong, badass heroines who are not only not-sexualized (a tired topic), and not only strong and badass, but also still comfortable with embracing her femininity. When it comes to the issue of having female heroine representation, many seem to think that femininity has to be left by the wayside when designing such a character, especially in aesthetics. The outfit in this piece is inspired by a Japanese street fashion called elegant gothic lolita. One of the iconic figures within the community, Misako Aoki, once said in an interview that “lolita is battle armor that shields me from my insecurities.” Femininity, and fashion by extension, can be so much more powerful and valuable to us than many people give it credit for. This drawing is essentially my love letter to that concept.