Hot Press Internship
Harvest
Cheesy Road
Fresh Farm
Pretty Potion
Sugar Sprint
Cottage
Environment
Matte Painting
Data Portrait
Magic Penguin
Love Animation
Reliquary Box
Hot Press Graphic Design Internship, July 5 - December 15, 2024
Assisted in magazine layout and formatting in InDesign, adhering to company style guide and branding ✦ Designed editorial collages and promotional materials in Photoshop and Indesign for print and digital ✦ Created motion graphics and video content for social media content using After Effects and Capcut
Harvest, August 2023
*open in Itch.io to run properly
Hand drew all game assets and UI elements ✦ Designed and built game in Unity ✦ Implemented controls and functionality through C# scripts ✦ Made custom handwritten font for text objects ✦ Generated game's soundtrack with Soundful ✦ Created hand drawn frame-by-frame animations
Harvest, October 2023
Created color concepts ✦ Storyboarded cutscene ✦ Finalized character colors ✦ Hand drew all cutscene illustrations
Cheesy Road, June 2023
Worked in a team to develop a game from concept to final release ✦ Modeled main character and side characters ✦ Applied animations to enemy characters for FSM implementation ✦ Scripted obstacle functionality in C# ✦ Implemented all UI functionality including home screen, tutorials, and settings
Pretty Potion, April 2023
Modeled set and props in Maya ✦ Designed character and storyboarded scene ✦ Textured character in Substance Painter ✦ Modeled, rigged, and animated character in Maya ✦ Edited shots together and added sound effects in After Effects
Cottage, April 2023
Created concept sketches for building ✦ Modeled building in Maya ✦ Painted textures (using community assets) in Substance Painter
Environment, March 2023
Created terrain in Maya ✦ Created dirt texture in Substance Designer ✦ Textured terrain in Substance Painter ✦ Laid out foliage (provided assets) onto terrain and added environmental effects in Maya
Matte Painting, January 2023
Created sketch for fantasy environment ✦ Created composition from images in Photoshop ✦ Rendered final piece in Photoshop
Data Visualization, September 2023
Tracked personal device usage over the course of a week ✦ Conceptualized and digitally painted visual representation for my data ✦ Created frame-by-frame animation to represent data over time
A Better Way to Talk About Love, October 2022
Worked in a team of three to create a visual accompaniment for a TedTalk audio ✦ Storyboarded the beginning sequence scene ✦ Created an animatic for the scene I was assigned to animate ✦ Animated my scene in Clip Studio Paint staying consistent with the group's chosen art style
Talent Show, December 2022
Designed character and storyboarded animation sequence ✦ Modeled and rigged penguin character and props in Maya (stage provided) ✦ Animated scene in Maya ✦ Compiled rendered sequence and added sound effects in After Effects
Fresh Farm, February 2023
🏆 HackBeanpot 2023 'Best Dunes of the Sahara' Award (Best UI)
Designed website to help farmers sell imperfect products to reduce food waste ✦ Designed website UI using Tailwind CSS ✦ Worked with backend developers to ensure frontend backend compatibility ✦ Created frame by frame animation for logo asset (stock images provided)
Reliquary Box, March 2022
Designed and prototyped box design in Tinkercad ✦ Hand drew flower and foliage designs for lid and sides of box ✦ Drew out topographic game map layers in Procreate ✦ Converted drawings into vector tracings in Illustrator ✦ Laser cut pieces and assembled final iteration
