Avatar Lilith
Format: 3D Model, Social Media, Theory
Duration: Ongoing
Image of Avatar Lilith rendered in Blender Cycles Engine
Through using Unity’s game engine and Microsoft’s Kinect depth sensor, a DIY motion-capture rig was made to be able to control Avatar Lilith’s body and facial movements in real-time detection. Avatar Lilith’s social media is currently under development. Follow along on instagram @avatar.lilith.
I was able to further develop Avatar Lilith and Aether Institute under Laboratory Residency, Spokane in Fall of 2020. Below are livestreams, updates, discourse, and information about Avatar Lilith recorded over the course of the residency.
See below for full YouTube Playlist:
Roles:
3D Modeling, Animation, Character Design, Texturing, Storyboarding, Creative Concepting, Writing, 3D Development, Interactivity
Tools used:
Unity, OSC, C#, Javascript, Microsoft Kinect, Blender, Zbrush, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Sketching, Procreate
VRBA - Intuit
Format: 3D Animation
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds
Stills taken from VRBA - Intuit 3D Animated Music Video
Audiovisual collaboration with Pittsburgh artist & producer VRBA to create a full length music video for her single “Intuit” off the album Willow Scythe. This video was released with Fact Magazine on April 16, 2021 via TT Label.
“Pittsburgh producer VRBA has joined forces with 3D artist and designer Adrienne Cassel for the visual accompaniment to ‘intuit’, a track taken from the producer’s debut label release, Willow Scythe. “Distinguished by an unparalleled sense of space, VRBA’s production moves fearlessly across sonic thresholds,” writes London label TT. “The album moves quickly between warped choruses and obscured sonic hazes punctuated with spongy drums.” On ‘intuit’, a cold and cavernous sonic world plays host to creeping bass, crunchy, tactile sound design and skittering alien percussion, immediately enveloping and overwhelming the listener.
Adrienne Cassel runs with this theme, plunging a glitched-out avatar into an infinite vacuum to be bathed in waves of live electricity, imbuing the being with transformative power and bringing about strange, body-altering mutations. Illustrating the tension between the corporeal and the intangible that permeates VRBA’s productions, Cassel illuminates the audio landscape into which we are plunged, weaving an abstract narrative of energy exchange and transmutation. As the album’s title suggests, both artists seek to create something sharp and focused from intricate and fragile source material.“
- Fact Magazine
Read here for Fact Magazine’s complete writeup.
Full video below:
Roles:
3D Modeling, Animation, Character Design, Environment Design, Texturing, Storyboarding, Creative Concepting
Tools used:
Blender, Zbrush, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Sketching
Spotify Canvas
Format: 3D Animation
Duration: 8 second loop
Spotify Canvas commissioned by Pittsburgh Artist & Activist, Brittney Chantele for her track “Like I Don’t Love You” released in February 2021.
This eight-second loop was designed to be congruent with Brittney’s current logo and design aesthetic, which can be seen on her instagram and website.
See it in action on Spotify here.
Roles:
3D Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Design
Tools used:
Blender, Premiere, Sketching
Aether Institute
Format: Website, Social Media, Concept & Theory
Duration: 2020 - present
Aether Institute is a place for research, exploration, and discourse focused on the intersection of body and embodiment in a post net world. Manifested in the form of Avatars confronting the relationship between physicality and virtual space, Aether is a center to dismantle hegemonic structures of technology.
Read here.
Roles:
Conceived, developed, designed, 3D modeled, and prototyped Aether Institute
Tools used:
Blender, Zbrush, Mind Mapping, Photoshop, Web Design (CSS & HTML)
The Queer Theory Library
Format: Website & 3D Animation
Duration: Ongoing
Screen recording of The Queer Theory Library’s Homepage
Web Design and Brand Identity commission for The Queer Theory Library. The goal of this website was to encourage the feelings of archival and dated imagery of notes, record-keeping and book formats while maintaining an ode to futuristic and speculative ideology. The final format of the website includes a two-sided book mockup with a Table of Contents and a draggable Feature Page, and sticky-note captions for informative links.
“The Queer Theory Library is a library and archive focused on creating a collective space for discussion, experimentation, creation, and knowledge. Providing access to academic texts and activating them with curated cultural programming, The Queer Theory Library invites an engaged, imaginative experience and greater community dialogue. The Queer Theory Library also functions as an actively growing archive for local artists, writers, and residents to submit their work, writings, and ephemera.”
See the full website here.
Screenshots of The Queer Theory Library’s website
Roles:
3D Modeling, Animation, Web Design, Brand Identity
Tools used:
CSS & HTML, CMS, Blender, Procreate, Premiere