Animation Work

Illustration, Animation, Sound Design, Typography

Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator

A stylized horror title sequence for a fictional film about AI, control, and performative love. Using fluid motion, warm reds, and illustrative visuals, the piece explores danger disguised as romance while hinting at themes of autonomy, gender, and digital intimacy.

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Illustration, Animation, Typography, Motion Design

Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro

A short-form animation series created to promote a Halloween movie marathon at Fordham. Designed as a modular system, each video blends animated poster elements, atmospheric film clips, and flickering event details to create a haunting, cinematic teaser. The project explores how static design can be extended through motion to build narrative depth and visual cohesion across multiple titles.

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Animation, Typography, Motion Design, Copywrite

Adobe Illustrator and After Effects

A motion-led Instagram story series created for the Leaf Out Newark campaign. The featured story highlights what trees make possible in public parks. A second story introduces Nature News, a recurring update on community tree plantings and events. Together, the two formats expand the brand's visual language and support ongoing civic engagement.

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Illustration, Animation, Sound Design, Typography 

Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator

Create a comedic animation about a girl preparing for a blind date and the dating is literally blind. She ends up wearing a blindfold despite all her effort to get ready.
This short form visual narrative is implementing tenants of Ellen Lupton’s “Design is Storytelling” 

Illustration, Animation, Sound Design 

Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro

This short-moving animated  illustrates the poem "Spring is Leaving" by Sugiyama Sanpu, inspired by the protagonist's journey in the book “A Court of Thornes and Roses”. 

Illustration, Animation, Drawing

Adobe Animate

A gif depicting what the process of creative thinking looks like when it is brought to life.

Illustrations, Motion Graphics, Typography

Medium: Adobe After Effects and Illustrator

This short-form motion graphics project is designed for family and friends as a personal announcement of a semester abroad in Rome.

Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustration

Adobe After Effects

Used by Jonesworks as a logo intro/outro animation for social media videos.

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Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustration

Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photography

Using a combination of motion graphics video and hand-rendered and digital illustrations, this short animation explores the imaginary, fluid, and fast-changing landscapes of the future. Here I employ a combination of vintage and modern styles that work in tandem to express the pace of change over time.

Motion Graphics, Typography

Adobe After Effects

Created a personal logo and brand identity using simplified, abstract letterforms and motion.

Animations

Title: Get Ready With me

Medium: Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator

Services: Illustration, Animation, Sound Design 

Challenge: Part of my academic process- this short form visual narrative is implementing tenants of Ellen Lupton’s “Design is Storytelling” 

Medium Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro

Services: Illustration, Animation, Sound Design 

Challenge: Part of my academic process- this short-moving animated video illustrates the poem "Spring is Leaving" by Sugiyama Sanpu, inspired by the protagonist's journey in the book “A Court of Thornes and Roses”. 

Medium: Adobe Animate

Services:  Illustration, Animation and Drawing

Challenge: A gif depicting what the process of creative thinking might look like if it were brought to life.

Title: Abroad in Rome

Medium: Adobe After Effects and Illustrator

Services: Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustrations

Challenge: Create a 15-second motion graphics video developing your own thematic and design constraint for the project. This short-form motion graphics project uses a combination of Adobe Illustrator and After Effects. Designed for family and friends as a personal announcement of a semester abroad in Rome.

Medium: Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photography

Services: Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustration

Challenge: Create a short motion graphics video exploring illusory contexts. Using a combination of motion graphics video and hand-rendered and digital illustrations, this short motion project explores the imaginary, fluid, and fast-changing landscapes of the future. Here I employ a combination of vintage and modern styles that work in tandem to express the pace of change over time.

Title: Future Island

Medium: Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photography

Services: Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustration

Challenge: Create a short motion graphics video exploring illusory contexts. Using a combination of motion graphics video and hand-rendered and digital illustrations, this short motion project explores the imaginary, fluid, and fast-changing landscapes of the future. Here I employ a combination of vintage and modern styles that work in tandem to express the pace of change over time.

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