This page will detail some of my personal interests. For my academic projects, please see my Projects page.
Art and Illustration
I’m passionate about digital illustration. I’ve been drawing digitally for about nine years now, and I still have so much to learn. It’s a fun exercise to try out a bunch of different styles, from detailed portraits to geometric designs. I love, detail, simplicity, and everything in between.
I primarily use Adobe Photoshop, but I occasionally use Adobe Illustrator.
Animation
I also love to see my art come to life! I primarily use Adobe After Effects for this. Even though the whole process is incredibly time consuming, it’s incredibly satisfying to see the final product.
Here are two fun and silly animated music videos I’ve created:
Game and Visual Novel Development
I am fascinated by video games as a medium. Games are so unique in how interactive they are with the user, so they must account for how the player will behave. The player has so much influence on their experience.
Personally, I value plot over complex gameplay (maybe because I’m quite terrible at gameplay). To me, the best games simply take the player through an unforgettable story.
Because of this, I am particularly interested in the visual novel genre. Visual novels, or VNs, are a type of interactive fiction (think of a cross between a game and the script of a play). I’ve been developing my own projects in the Ren’Py engine, creating most of my own assets (such as sprites, backgrounds, scripts, and UI elements). VN development has been a great opportunity for me to explore coding and creativity. Although I’ve currently only officially published one product, I still have several in the works.
Please feel free to follow my itch.io account for updates on my works!