A few weeks ago I joined a startup founded by a few Penn alums called Venmo! My project at Venmo for the past few weeks has been helping my friend and co-worker, Ayaka Nonaka, with a new app from Venmo called Gifi, which is a Foursquare/Venmo mashup that lets people leave Venmo money at geographic locations. I’ve been working on Gifi’s website and overall look. Here’s some of the artwork I did for Gifi:

I’ve been playing with Maya for the past few months. 3D animation is a direction I’d like to start moving in.

I’m starting to get the hang of lighting things and whatnot, although I still do not know much. I’m taking a 3D modeling course in the fall, hopefully I’ll get much better by then.

Some glasses and strawberries and grapes on a table:

A lot of you guys already know what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks, but for anybody who I haven’t told, here’s a peek:

For most of March, our Digital Design Foundations assignment was to create a room from an odd perspecitve using Illustrator and Photoshop. Here’s what I came up with:

Almost all of this is Illustrator, including the wood, which took ages to do. I loosely based this off of the foyer back at home. My intent with this piece was to practice doing lighting work, and I must say I’m rather happy with it.

I made a quick little video of all the stages this piece went through:

Just for fun, here are some color variations that I made by putting it through Lightroom:

I call this variant the “Coraline” version: