The archive

On air

An elf girl feels her first wings unfold. Ava Ledon, a rigger at SCAD, built the elf character rig and handed it over; I tested it, sent back what broke, and animated on the version we settled on. The acting lives in the face and shoulders, moving from confusion to a held breath to open delight inside five seconds. Animated in Autodesk Maya, with the final pass rendered through Higgsfield, an AI renderer that took the grey viewport into moonlight and translucent wing membrane. The clips below run the shot from blocking to final.

On air

A hand-drawn short made at SCAD Atlanta, directed by Kory Griggs and produced by Lucas Pennell. It runs 3:46, and the title is the only warning anyone gets.

On air

A dive through a coral reef, built as a real-time environment in Unreal Engine. Rock shelves, branching corals, sponges, and anemones are scattered across the sea floor, lit by caustics falling from the surface, and the camera drifts through the reef at a diver's pace so the scale of the place reads.

This is my first personal storyboard project which has concept arts developed upon the story. For the completion of this project, I created the main character design, posture drawings, a series of designs for side characters, storyboard, and two colored concept illustrations.

On air

Animated clips for an augmented-reality experience at Handan Museum, tied to the historic souvenirs sold there. Lian Po was one of the Zhao state's generals, and the work puts him back in front of visitors standing in his own city.

On air

Ten weeks of design for AIG's Innovation Hub in Atlanta. Over two hundred concepts went in, ten came out finished, and the city's own landmarks ended up on the building's wayfinding and its feature walls.

Character and costume design for a three-person pirate crew, drawn so each one reads as her own person while the group still looks like one crew. Clarisse is the crew's former noble, fled from a corrupt church aboard The Fallen Vanguard with two rogue nuns. Her sheet carries the turnaround, the head studies, and two costumes: the Outfit of Departure and the Chinoiserie Gown.

Prefabricated Dreams is a satirical pixel-style game critiquing shortcut culture and the sleep economy. Players raise Mono, a cute alien-like pet that thrives on store-bought dream supplements—but shortcuts come at a cost. Push too far, and Mono may turn dangerous, revealing the darker secrets of a society that masks control beneath its friendly façade.

On air

A Lowe's-sponsored SCADpro animation, and the walkthrough of the store environment it was built on.

Three portraits of three different people, with the light and the clothes doing as much of the characterisation as the face does.

On air

Wheel of Life, is an animated illustration masterpiece featuring two unique tarot card designs influenced by Asian mythology and Buddhism.

On air

This project aims to produce a storyboard animatic for the Frozen Parody, 'Will You Help Me Hide a Body?' sourced from YouTube/@theavenger888.

Work made on paper rather than on screen: still lifes in charcoal and pastel, a cow skull laid among peonies, and a street drawn out in one-point perspective.

Pages where one shape gets pushed until it turns into something else. A spread takes the spreading shape of leaf venation and runs it out into a lamp, a plant container, a hairstyle and the cut of a dress; another is an exercise in building volume out of nothing but overlapping lines.