Welcome to my creative playground,
a space for side quests.
It’s a collection of ideas that don’t quite fit in boxes: experiments in 3D, motion, visual storytelling, and other creative tangents that let me explore art beyond the brief.
Animation.mp4
Silly_Little_Life.pdf
Motion_Graphics.mov
Illustration.png
Creative_Writing.txt
Sketches.jpg
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Motion Design
I'm still pretty new to motion graphics, so most of what’s here are little type explorations and tests, focusing mainly on kinetic typography.
They’re not entirely polished, but they’ve been a fun way to get more comfortable with timing, rhythm, and using After Effects and Premiere Pro.
This Silly Little Life
A magazine project where I recapped my May in spreads. It’s playful, a little random, and a lot more personal than most of my work. I like the idea of building this section out over time as an ongoing record - tiny pieces of “life documentation” mixed in with design. Here's a few spreads!
Animation
Ranging from short tests to longer pieces, where I play around with timing, character, and sound.
These were modelled, textured, and rendered, in Blender
A short made in Blender, animated to music. It follows an old little robot, running away from a drone. This project taught me a lot in terms of technical skills like rigging and lighting, as well as understanding character, timing, and storytelling through movement.
An earlier animation experiment, a music video concept I made for a song written by my sister. What was supposed to be a series of storyboards, quickly turned into an entire animated music video.
Product Animations
Creative Writing
This section is where I collect little pieces of writing. There’s a short dystopian concept I wrote for a Blender artwork, with the challenge of a 1000 character limit, and a small poem about romanticising life.
I’m also working on worldbuilding for a fantasy novel I'd love to write one day - still early days, but I’m really enjoying it and looking forward to illustrating parts of it as it grows.
I'm too pretty for a lukewarm life
Half lit rooms, and hesitant days,
Tip-toeing around joy like it might break,
Swallowing fire just to play it safe.
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I was built for the blazes,
For deep-bellied laughter and wild hair,
For dancing barefoot through the maybes,
And laughing like the world's already mine.
Let them sip the ordinary slow,
I'll be here,
Spilling over with the too much,
Loving loud,
And choosing more.
As Sarah Connely and Don Myers descended onto the Earth's surface, the bleak landscape stretched before them, an eerie testimony to the planet's abandonment.
<beep> "Officer Myers, Log 14, Project: Aftermath. Officer Connely and I have arrived on the surface."
Sarah: "Don, turn on your flashlight. There's something here." She tapped her foot on the sand beneath them and the resonance suggested there was a hollowness beneath them.
<beep> "Officer Myers, Log 15, Project: Aftermath. There seems to be a remaining structure." They descend down a ladder leading into the bunker.
Don: "This...this is bizarre. Looks like a teenager's hangout."
Sarah: "Yeah, like they decided to leave a piece of themselves behind. Amidst all this, it's oddly reassuring, don't you think? She placed her hand gently on the glass.
Don: "It's like a last stand. I guess some kid decided they couldn't let go."
<beep> "Officer Myers, Log 16, Project: Aftermath. Hope remains the earthlings' legacy."
Sketches
These are some of my older pencil drawings, practices in realism. Even though they’re from earlier stages of my art journey, I still like having them here - they’re a reminder of how much observation and practice shapes everything else I make.
Illustration
A mix of projects that let me play with art in different ways. One is a set of Persephone inspired playing cards I designed for a class project, where I experimented with form reduction and storytelling through minimal design. The other is a collection of illustrated coffee cups from different cafés around my city.
