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🌊 Ember’s Emotional Arc & Poses

A visual journey through posture, tension, and healing Ember doesn’t speak in paragraphs. She speaks in posture—slight lean, clenched fingers, the angle of a foot unsure where to land. Her emotional arc isn’t just about character development—it’s about how her body responded before she found the words. This capsule traces key poses from Ember’s journey, threading emotional beats into visual…

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🧶 Style & Systems

Where emotional clarity meets visual rhythm My storytelling is threaded with intentional choices—structured layouts, pose logic, tonal signals. This page unfolds the systems beneath my characters, environments, and capsules: how silhouette speaks, why restraint matters, and where academic rhythm shapes emotional pacing. Each visual beat, from fractal tension to light green ambient cues,…

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🧵 Visual Language: Mood, Shape & Rhythm

A modular style capsule defining how shape, emotion, and clarity speak through your work. 🖤 Silhouette Clarity You lean into silhouette-first design to prioritize emotional impact before detail.Each pose becomes a glyph—a symbol of memory, decision, or restraint. “I trace emotion through shape. If the line isn’t helping the feeling, I let it go.” ✒️ Minimal Linework Reserved for softness,…

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🪡 Fractal Notes: Bridging Geometry & Emotion

A capsule exploring how Ember’s modeling turns shapes into moments. In this capsule, Ember’s modeling isn’t just technical—it’s sensory. Her spatial decisions feel lived-in, remembered, even bruised by the emotions that shaped them. Each polygon she crafts becomes a line in her emotional journal, and this page is an attempt to read those lines aloud. 🔮 Opening Reflection Modeling is often…

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🪡 Low-Poly with Purpose

Why does structure soothe her? Ember’s pursuit of low-poly modeling isn’t just about clean edges—it’s about tracing her thoughts in shapes that hold. This section breathes like a drafting table left out in morning light. Fractal Thread Notes 🌿 Quick blurbs that mirror her modeling philosophy—like stitched insights: Grid ≠ Cage Triangles = Choices Gaps are memory pockets Shape tension =…

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🧵 Scripting as Storyboard

Exploring how visual scripting mimics narrative pacing and emotional flow.Logic isn’t sterile here—it has rhythm. And each trigger pulses with mood. Ember doesn’t write scripts to command her world. She scripts to pace it—to make each moment feel. Node by node, she assembles sequences like beats on a metronome: a door opens not just because it’s coded to, but because the timing feels like…

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🧩 Modular Repetition in Stylized Corridors

🧩 Modular Repetition in Stylized Corridors A quick dive into layout logic using repeating nodes and symbolic thresholds.Repetition becomes rhythm. Corridors become memory.This thread explores how duplicated modules do more than save time—they sculpt mood. Ember’s environments use loops, not just for efficiency, but to mirror emotional pacing and narrative weight. Each repeated shape whispers…

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🕯 Ember’s drifting's

A space where reflections dissolve structure. No titles, no rules. Just fragments caught in passing light. I was sketching thresholds again—not sure why doorways feel like memory.Maybe it’s the quiet between rooms,or the feeling of almost belonging. Visual satire keeps circling me like crows.Sharp lines, bitter laughter.Gillray laughed with venom;I laugh with fog. Everything in the layout felt…

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🦇 Batman: The Animated Series influence capsule 🦇

Batman: The Animated Series Era: 1990s / Noir SuperheroAirtime: Fox Kids (Sept 5, 1992 – Sept 15, 1995)Mood Vibe: Noir tension meets orchestral dramaPacing Style: Suspense pockets + theatrical shadowsVisual Traits: High-contrast shadows, angular silhouettes, Art Deco cityscapes Creative Impact: Taught me how to use silhouette and shadow as narrative tools Inspired my love for dramatic staging…

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✒️🏗️ CAN 101 – Term Reflection 🏗️✒️

“Design didn’t start with tools—it started with understanding the job. Stylus wasn’t building yet—it was watching, mapping, listening.” 🧭 Industry Roles & Creative Flow “Stylus met the pipeline like a cast list—each role had rhythm, and stylus watched for the cue to enter.”— July 2025 Explored creative job titles across the animation and design pipeline Learned how layout artists, environment…

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✒️🏺 HUM 310-O - Term Reflection 🏺✒️

🏺 HUM 310-O: Visual Theory & Narrative Pacing “Art isn’t static—it’s a movement of thought. A stylus trail through culture, symbol, and rhythm.” 🎨 Symbolic Storytelling & Surreal Composition “The symbolism felt heavier than expected—like myth layered in a storyboard. Stylus had to stretch just to hold the idea.”— Fall 2025 Analyzed Hokusai’s wave patterns for visual repetition and emotional…

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✒️ Dreaming Through Ink ✒️

Assignment Context This reflection was written for:2.3 – Early Comic Strips: DiscussionExploring the visual language, historical context, and social commentary of early 20th-century comics—especially Winsor McCay’s work. ✒️ Dreaming Through Ink 🎨 Visual Narrative and Social Imagination in Early Comic Strips If I were an artist creating a visual narrative in the early 20th century, I would…

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🧭 HUM 310-O Art of Visual Narrative

Exploring the evolution of visual storytelling through historical, artistic, and commercial lenses 📘 Course Overview This course introduced me to the history, artistry, and industry behind visual narrative forms. We explored how ancient cultural artwork, printed novels, and the comic book industry connect through storytelling structure and emotional design. From myth to multimedia franchises,…

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🎬✍️ Week 4.4 Reflection – Comic Creation Pipeline ✍️🎬

Week 4.5 Reflection – Global Connections: Anime – Manga Comes Alive! Comparing Sequential Visual Narratives in My Hero Academia 📖 Art Style: Monochrome Emotion vs. Color Resonance Manga (Vol. 1): Crisp black-and-white line work, expressive faces, dramatic inking Anime (Ep. 1–2): Vibrant color palette, fluid motion, voice acting for emotional depth Example: All Might’s heroic aura—radiant…

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🎬✍️ Week 4.4 Reflection – Global Connections: Anime – Manga Comes Alive! ✍️🎬

Week 4.4 Reflection – How to Adapt Comics the Marvel Way Exploring Cinematic Techniques, Stylized Framing, and Performative Exaggeration 📖 Introduction: Comics in Motion This reflection explores how comic book aesthetics—dynamic framing, stylized poses, and synecdochic simplification—translate into film. Drawing from Liam Burke’s The Comic Book Film Adaptation, it examines how the Marvel Way…

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🎬✍️ Week 4 Reflection: Composing Comics the Marvel Way ✍️🎬

Assignment 4.3 – The Future of Visual Narratives: Discussion Exploring Emerging Technologies: AR, VR, AI, and Interactive Art 🔍 Introduction: Speculative Storytelling in a Shifting Medium The new frontier of visual storytelling weaves together intimacy, immersion, and ethical awareness. This reflection connects cutting-edge tools to narrative depth—asking not just how we’ll tell stories, but…

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🎬✍️ Week 4 Reflection: Comic Craft & Scripting Styles ✍️🎬

Assignment 4.2 – Writing and Drawing Comic Books: Comparative Essay ✍️ Comic Scripting Styles – Marvel vs. DC A reflection on narrative control, artistic rhythm, and emotional resonance 🎭 Marvel Method: Loose Plot CollaborationMarvel’s style lets artists steer the visual flow. With broad plot outlines and reactive scripting, it produces dynamic action and spontaneous pacing. Think The Amazing…