"AVATAR FACTORY"
"Avatar Factory", 2024, Blender and Unity 3D
"Avatar Factory" is a digital game created for the San Jose State University 2024 Digital Media Art BFA Senior Showcase Group Exhibition. This work aims to discuss and explore feelings of belonging and identity. These worries are affected by a number of different factors like whether or not it is personal or societal. The important question is “how do you feel about yourself and how would you create yourself in a digital space?” Creating an avatar to represent you and your personality is meaningful. Would you make an avatar that looked exactly like you, or would you make someone entirely different?
"MY AVATAR"
"My Avatar", 2022, Blender and Adobe 3D Substance Painter
"My Avatar" is an original character design 3D model that was built, sculpted, and painted using Blender and Adobe's 3D Substance Painter. This piece touches on the topic about holding onto childhood and the things that heal the inner child within you. One thing that I tend to still gravitate towards are the little trinkets and toys that contain the sole purpose of accompanying you. Family and friends ridicule me for collecting these as "you are too old to be buying them" yet they bring me an abundance of joy. Should you have to sacrifice your happiness at the mere judgment of another?
"LITTLE LIGHTS"
"Little Lights", 2021, p5.js
"Little Lights" is an interactive javascript activity that shows different moving components as the user holds down the left mouse click and drags it across the screen. This piece is for everyone to play no matter the demographic. Play around with it yourself on the right hand side; see the different changes in colors and shapes from all different sides of the square!
"My Everything Bagel"
"My Everything Bagel", 2021, p5.js
"My Everything Bagel" is an interactive javascript 3D environment that incorporate auto rotating 3D objects as the user holds down the left mouse click and drags it across the screen. This piece demonstrates the presense of people in an online environment. As online users everything choose an avatar to represent them or an online persona, I coded this activty to represent myself. Drawing inspiration from Academy Award Winning film "Everything Everywhere All At Once", Play around with it yourself on the right hand side.
"PHLAPPY TURTLE"
"Phlappy Turtle", 2023, Unity
"Phlappy Turtle" is a short 2D platformer game that challenges the players skills and figuring a way to win. Navigating in the dark with limited vision, it is all up to strategy. In making this game, I learned many aspects like game development, team management, and practice time management. With a project like this, I was able to work towards set milestones while adapting to changes along the way. This process taught me patience and open mindedness as I navigated this new program.
"LOST IN SPACE" TRAILER
"Lost in Space", 2021, Procreate and After Effects, 30 secs.
"Lost in Space" is a motion graphic that tells the story behind a lost robot on a routine maintenance run. Starting out as a hand drawn digital painting, enhancing it in after effects was the goal. I wanted this piece to show as an animation and hopefully become a full animation. With this thirty second trailer, I want to build onto the story for my robot as I further refine my editing and videography skills.
CADRE MENTORSHIP FALL20' SHOWCASE
"Fragile Dreams", 2020, HTML and CSS