3D MODELING
My final render after completing Blender Guru's 2025 Donut Tutorial.
The poster for my short film Home Videos. The scene was modeled in Blender and depicts a child sitting in the cold glow of a CRT TV on a roll-out media cart, surrounded by a vast nothingness.
Subsurface
In college, I was assigned the task of creating non-photorealistic artwork that conveyed human connection. One night, while rewatching Fight Club (1999), its opening credits—where the camera flies through a neural network—sparked the core idea. I decided nothing represents human connection more literally than the network of neurons and synapses that enables us to feel, think, and engage with others.
Ironically, despite the prompt, the process of making the piece was deeply solitary—hours alone at my desk. I started thinking of neural networks as invisible liminal spaces within us: always present, unseen, and strangely lonely despite being essential to connection. Synapses are “in-between” places that exist only to link other spaces. The animation becomes a cyclical journey through this system—unaware of the viewer, functioning endlessly like a machine—even as it gradually deteriorates, disconnects, and dies.
Through shifting color palettes and sound, I aimed to reflect the emotions of excitement, calm, anger, sadness, fear, love, and nostalgia. By blending the spiritual experience of emotion with the biological mechanics that transmit it, I aimed to create tension between body and soul.
I created this intro animation in Blender (graphics designed in Illustrator) for a segment on the American High Podcast called "American High Superlatives." In this segment, the guest is given a superlative. For each installment, the guest’s image is added to the right-hand page of the intro.
A short animation featuring a stack of donuts. Following Blender Guru's 2023 Donut Tutorial, this was my first Blender project.