Fighter Kites (2024) | CU Denver Digital Animation Center Senior Thesis

Fighter Kites is a film about a young girl, Ahki, whose favorite pastime is kite fighting with her brother. The colorful kites that once freely owned the sky are now replaced by shadows of a flying beast. She must find a way to divert this being and reclaim the sky to protect her beloved village from the shadows that fly overhead. The mystical creature, however, is more than just an illusion and more than just a beast. This story is inspired by the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Animation Demo Reel | Film/Television | May 2024

3D Animation | Maya

2D Animation | Toon Boom Harmony

A Day in the Life of CAT

Stop Motion Animation | Stop Motion Studio

Paper Plane

Stop Motion Animation | Stop Motion Studio

Coin Bounce

Stop Motion Animation | Stop Motion Studio

Walk Turn Exercise

3D Animation | Maya

Nightmare - Untimed Storyboards [WIP]

Drawn in Photoshop, Edited in Storyboarder

Four angles of a Roc based on a Turkey Vulture. The first is a top view, the seconed is a line drawing of the Roc picking up an elephant, the third is a red and blue full-color side profile, and the fourth is a full-color front view with an extended wing.

Roc Concept Art | Fighter Kites (2024)

Drawn in Photoshop

Cyborg Character Turnaround [WIP]

Drawn and Animated in Procreate

A digital drawing of a woman in a blue dress with blonde hair. There are several other small line-drawing angles of her character.

Princess - Character Sheet

Drawn in Procreate and Photoshop

A digital drawing of a tan-skinned punk man with hearing aids in a variety of poses, with and without a cigarette.

Dylan - Character Sheet

Drawn in Photoshop

Four versions of the same simple line art of a boy with a bowl cut. The first is only the line art for his body. The second adds an underarm crutch. The third is a version with an forearm crutch. The fourth is a clothed version with an underarm crutch and leg brace.

Kadjul Character Concept Art | Fighter Kites (2024)

Drawn in Photoshop

An untextured render of a 3D modeled sci-fi portal, with a large circular portal device in the middle of the room, a control console, and many wires and tubes running throughout.

Sci-Fi Portal

3D Model | Maya

Three-quarters view of a 3D sculpted witch

Creepy Witch

3D Sculpt | ZBrush

Two panels of a digitally modeled KITT from Knight Rider based on the cars from the movie Cars. The first panel has textures and the second panel shows the geometry of the car model.

Pixarized KITT (Knight Rider)

3D Model | Maya

Untextured render of a stylized L-shaped cottage with a cellar and a ramp leading up to the deck. The cottage is on a small island with a bridge, and next to it is a small, three-pool rock waterfall.

Cozy Cottage

3D Model | Maya

Robot Turnaround | Based on The Mystery of Flight by Matt Dixon

Textured 3D Model | Maya

Ecorche Model

3D Model | Maya, ZBrush

Storm Trooper Helmet Turntable

Textured 3D Model | Maya, Substance Painter

Photorealistic Head

3D Sculpt | Maya, ZBrush

Three quarters view of an aquatic baby water dragon sculpt, with coral-like spines and ears that look like fins.

Baby Dragon

3D Sculpt | Maya, ZBrush

Three views of a 3D modeled and textured Flourish and Blotts

Flourish & Blotts

Textured 3D Scene | Maya, Substance Painter

FishBot

3D Model | Maya

A digital drawing of a person sinking underwater, with a hole in their chest revealing their heart wrapped in wires leading to a pacemaker. In the background are EKG lines indicative of an arrhythmia.

Arrhythmia

Drawn in Photoshop

A small, graphically-stylized painting of a mouse reaching up with its nose to sniff a flower

Field Mouse

Gouache paint on paper | 4.5" x 6"

A large painting in shades of blue of the cyclops attacking Odysseus. One soldier and a lamb lie dead in the background.

Hubris

Acrylic paint on wood panel | 18" x 24"

Four plant figures with various disabilities. One has an ostomy bag and feeding tube, one is in a hospital bed with a service dog, one is using a wheelchair, and one is an amputee with a PICC line in their arm.

Blooming Pride

Drawn in Photoshop

A blue and green painting of a torso with red top surgery scars on a red background.

Identity

Gouache paint on paper | 12" x 9"

A digital drawing of a red skeleton, without hips or legs, splashing under deep blue water.

Dysphoria 1

Drawn in Photoshop

A close-up digital drawing of a man looking up, breathing out bubbles, in shades of blue as if he is underwater.

Dysphoria 2

Drawn in Photoshop

A digital vignette of two people, one taller and one shorter, sitting facing away from the viewer. They are wrapped in a blue blanket and sitting on some grass, with several butterflies around them.

Toward the Horizon

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

A mixed media painting of a tree, which is made from plastic medical supplies and pieces of plastic Coke bottles, with a pastel painted background.

Their Bottles, Our Lives

Found plastic items, plastic medical trash, gouache and acrylic paint on wood panel

A digital drawing of a person wearing a chest binder, waving a large trans flag. The drawing is mainly in shades of blue.

Trans Pride

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

Surreal gouache painting of a river going through bushes towards a sinking clocktower, with the background as a stained glass window with heavy red curtains.

Expectations

Gouache painting on wood panel | 8" x 6"

A digital drawing of a person in a cloak sitting at the end of a broken rocky path across a wasteland of bones and mushrooms, watching a three-masted ship fly into the stars.

In the Stars

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

A dark-skinned woman in a red dress with her arms outstretched to do magic, wearing a golden lion healmet. Fire swirls around her.

Fire Witch

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

Digital drawing of a person's hands in shades of red. The left hand is holding the right wrist as if massaging it from pain.

Pain

Drawn in Photoshop

Digital art of the head of a white and brown cow.

A Cow for Your Viewing Pleasure

Drawn in Photoshop

A textured digital drawing of a close-up, side profile of a character with pale skin and blond hair wearing a dark cloak with a skull adornment.

Ambrose, Tiefling Bard

Drawn in Photoshop

A digitl drawing of a hero raising a sword up triumphantly on cliff, surrounded by god rays. Far in the distance below them is a castle, and above is red dragon.

Hero

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

A stylistic digital line drawing of a person with two swords in a burning forest facing down a dragon coming towards them.

Burning

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

Digital drawing of the head of a tiefling with red skin and blue hair in a bun. She has gold earrings and jewelry on her horns.

Tiefling Character

Drawn in Photoshop

Digital drawing of two hands clasped together with a background of stars. One hand is pale and one is purple.

Intimacy

Drawn in Clip Studio Paint

A mermaid in an S pose with green skin, top surgery scars, and purple fins like a beta fish.

Mermaid

Colored pencil on paper

A digital drawing of a humanoid character with blue skin and white hair in loose, monk fighter-style clothing. He is leaning casually with his arms up over a staff carried across his shoulders.

Lazuli, Air Genasi Monk

Drawn in Photoshop

A pencil drawing of a figure with short hair, glasses, and a mask sitting in a wheelchair holding a parrot that lying on its back with both hands.

Pencil Portrait

Self-portrait in pencil | Based on reference image