Full portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Hi! My name is Kaye Lani Weatherly (just Kaye is fine), and I'm a recent Stamps School of Art & Design graduate. I have a BA in Art & Design and minored in Global Media Studies, focusing on film analysis. I'm an aspiring graphic novelist and my latest exhibition piece (at Commence, the 2024 Senior Exhibition at Stamps) was a short form traditionally drawn comic. I also make 2D animations and write fictional prose. My animated trailer was accepted for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023, and my short stories and artworks have appeared in various UofM student publications (Writer to Writer 2021 and Michiganensian Yearbook 2022 respectively). The writing tab of my portfolio is currently in the works but all of my pieces are up! Feel free to peruse, inquire, or contact me through Twine or my portfolio site. Thank you!…Full portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Hi! My name is Kaye Lani Weatherly (just Kaye is fine), and I'm a recent Stamps School of Art & Design graduate. I have a BA in Art & Design and minored in Global Media Studies, focusing on film analysis. I'm an aspiring graphic novelist and my latest exhibition piece (at Commence, the 2024 Senior Exhibition at Stamps) was a short form traditionally drawn comic. I also make 2D animations and write fictional prose. My animated trailer was accepted for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023, and my short stories and artworks have appeared in various UofM student publications (Writer to Writer 2021 and Michiganensian Yearbook 2022 respectively). The writing tab of my portfolio is currently in the works but all of my pieces are up! Feel free to peruse, inquire, or contact me through Twine or my portfolio site. Thank you!WWW…
Full portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Hi! My name is Kaye Lani Weatherly (just Kaye is fine), and I'm a recent Stamps School of Art & Design graduate. I have a BA in Art & Design and minored in Global Media Studies, focusing on film analysis. I'm an aspiring graphic novelist and my latest exhibition piece (at Commence, the 2024 Senior Exhibition at Stamps) was a short form traditionally drawn comic. I also make 2D animations and write fictional prose. My animated trailer was accepted for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023, and my short stories and artworks have appeared in various UofM student publications (Writer to Writer 2021 and Michiganensian Yearbook 2022 respectively). The writing tab of my portfolio is currently in the works but all of my pieces are up! Feel free to peruse, inquire, or contact me through Twine or my portfolio site. Thank you!…Full portfolio: _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Hi! My name is Kaye Lani Weatherly (just Kaye is fine), and I'm a recent Stamps School of Art & Design graduate. I have a BA in Art & Design and minored in Global Media Studies, focusing on film analysis. I'm an aspiring graphic novelist and my latest exhibition piece (at Commence, the 2024 Senior Exhibition at Stamps) was a short form traditionally drawn comic. I also make 2D animations and write fictional prose. My animated trailer was accepted for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023, and my short stories and artworks have appeared in various UofM student publications (Writer to Writer 2021 and Michiganensian Yearbook 2022 respectively). The writing tab of my portfolio is currently in the works but all of my pieces are up! Feel free to peruse, inquire, or contact me through Twine or my portfolio site. Thank you!WWWW…
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Hi! My name is Kaye Lani Weatherly (just Kaye is fine), and I’m a recent Stamps School of Art & Design graduate. I have a BA in Art & Design and minored in Global Media Studies, focusing on film analysis. I’m an aspiring graphic novelist and my latest exhibition piece (at Commence, the 2024 Senior Exhibition at Stamps) was a short form traditionally drawn comic. I also make 2D animations and write fictional prose. My animated trailer was accepted for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023, and my short stories and artworks have appeared in various UofM student publications (Writer to Writer 2021 and Michiganensian Yearbook 2022 respectively).
The writing tab of my portfolio is currently in the works but all of my pieces are up! Feel free to peruse, inquire, or contact me through Twine or my portfolio site. Thank you!
Skills
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Experience Level
Procreate
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Adobe Premiere Pro
Intermediate
Animation
Intermediate
Book Illustration
Intermediate
Comic Strip
Intermediate
2D Animation
Intermediate
Adobe After Effects
Intermediate
Adobe Illustrator
Intermediate
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate
Short Film
Beginner
Language
English
Fluent
Education
Associates at Lansing Community College
September 8, 2019 - May 5, 2021Transferred from LCC to UofM in 2021
Bachelor of the Arts at University of Michigan
August 23, 2021 - May 3, 2024Graduated May 2024
Qualifications
Industry Experience
Media & Entertainment, Consumer Goods
"The Call" Animatic
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Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, 2023
This animatic was made for my STAMPS Sophomore Studio project under Professor Kate Rubin. The goal of this class was to create a final iteration of a semester-long project and present it to a panel, to which we would discuss what we've learned from previous art classes and our findings during this class. During the first and second iterations, we conducted much research into our "making," or what drives us to commit to this passion project.
I wanted to make an animation based on a scene from my story "The Wicked and Deranged" (for more info, see "The Wicked and Deranged Comic Excerpt" under Illustration). My research lay primarily in film studies, as I took Intro to FTVM that same semester. I tied my animatic to the age of "Quality TV" we talked about in FTVM, in which television shows became higher quality and took on the narrative drama of films. This relates to my project because, in the Age of the Internet, with information and new media being so widely accessible, it would be intriguing to tackle animation in the same vein as Quality TV: episodic, tonally serious, and suspenseful, but with eye-grabbing and expressionistic colors.
In creating this animatic, I would show a short "preview" (akin to Netflix Reels) to present the tone or conflict of my overall story, particularly the deception and multiple perspectives. Because of my presentation, I passed the Sophomore Review with Honors.
CREDITS:
Written and Animated by Kaye Weatherly
Sounds and Music by Hunter Kehler
Voices by Talen Winchester (Parker) and Richard Browning (caller)
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Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, 2023
This animatic was made for my STAMPS Sophomore Studio project under Professor Kate Rubin. The goal of this class was to create a final iteration of a semester-long project and present it to a panel, to which we would discuss what we've learned from previous art classes and our findings during this class. During the first and second iterations, we conducted much research into our "making," or what drives us to commit to this passion project.
I wanted to make an animation based on a scene from my story "The Wicked and Deranged" (for more info, see "The Wicked and Deranged Comic Excerpt" under Illustration). My research lay primarily in film studies, as I took Intro to FTVM that same semester. I tied my animatic to the age of "Quality TV" we talked about in FTVM, in which television shows became higher quality and took on the narrative drama of films. This relates to my project because, in the Age of the Internet, with information and new media being so widely accessible, it would be intriguing to tackle animation in the same vein as Quality TV: episodic, tonally serious, and suspenseful, but with eye-grabbing and expressionistic colors.
In creating this animatic, I would show a short "preview" (akin to Netflix Reels) to present the tone or conflict of my overall story, particularly the deception and multiple perspectives. Because of my presentation, I passed the Sophomore Review with Honors.
CREDITS:
Written and Animated by Kaye Weatherly
Sounds and Music by Hunter Kehler
Voices by Talen Winchester (Parker) and Richard Browning (caller)
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Ann Arbor Film Fest 2023 Trailer
Link to the trailer on my portfolio: https://www.twine.net/signin
Digital Collage, Procreate, Adobe After Effects, 2022
In Heidi Kumao's "Experimental Animation" class of Fall 2022, we made trailers for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023. My trailer got accepted along with 4 other student trailers; these were played before various screenings throughout the film festival.
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Digital Collage, Procreate, Adobe After Effects, 2022
In Heidi Kumao's "Experimental Animation" class of Fall 2022, we made trailers for the Ann Arbor Film Fest of 2023. My trailer got accepted along with 4 other student trailers; these were played before various screenings throughout the film festival.
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"Crime and Punishment" Artist Book
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Procreate, Matte Photo Paper, Drum Leaf-Bound Book, 2022
This artist book was made for my Book Arts class at STAMPS. Our professor Kyle Clark had us get acquainted with simpler bookbinding styles (accordion, coptic sewing, and so on) before we moved on to this larger project which involved drum leaf binding.
We were allowed to include anything in it that represented our artistic mediums of choice. I decided to make an illustrated version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” During a critique in the planning stages, someone suggested omitting any and all text, as the art could then speak for itself. With this in mind, I used Procreate to draw important scenes to visualize the narrative of the book, with some scenes taking up a whole spread. I printed them all on matte photo paper to be folded and bound together in this complete artist book.
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Procreate, Matte Photo Paper, Drum Leaf-Bound Book, 2022
This artist book was made for my Book Arts class at STAMPS. Our professor Kyle Clark had us get acquainted with simpler bookbinding styles (accordion, coptic sewing, and so on) before we moved on to this larger project which involved drum leaf binding.
We were allowed to include anything in it that represented our artistic mediums of choice. I decided to make an illustrated version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” During a critique in the planning stages, someone suggested omitting any and all text, as the art could then speak for itself. With this in mind, I used Procreate to draw important scenes to visualize the narrative of the book, with some scenes taking up a whole spread. I printed them all on matte photo paper to be folded and bound together in this complete artist book.
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"Road to the King" Comic
Procreate, 2023
This comic was originally made for a contest but was later finished for an assignment in Phoebe Gloeckner's Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS. The prompt was to create a full-color comic, and I did so with a new story in which old pulp fiction comics inspired the style.
illustrator artist comicart comicartist comics illustration graphicnovel writer pulpfiction…Procreate, 2023
This comic was originally made for a contest but was later finished for an assignment in Phoebe Gloeckner's Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS. The prompt was to create a full-color comic, and I did so with a new story in which old pulp fiction comics inspired the style.
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3:07 AM: A Photocomic
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Photographic Collage, Adobe Photoshop, 2023
This photocomic was made for Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS. The prompt was to create a comic using only photographs and assort them into a comic. I made mine about my first panic attack and utilized bitmapping techniques that I had seen in many indie horror games; I felt that this pixelation appearance would convey the horror and distance from reality I felt quite well.
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Photographic Collage, Adobe Photoshop, 2023
This photocomic was made for Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS. The prompt was to create a comic using only photographs and assort them into a comic. I made mine about my first panic attack and utilized bitmapping techniques that I had seen in many indie horror games; I felt that this pixelation appearance would convey the horror and distance from reality I felt quite well.
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"The Father Is Present" Comic
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Ink on Bristol Paper
Commence Exhibition statement: “The Father Is Present” is an excerpt from a larger story of mine, but operates as a standalone comic. In this, I explore identity and the confinements of one’s family. Parental figures hold much weight in our lives. How does one escape that weight when it becomes too burdensome? This comic is about self-transformation, whether one grows from it or not; in the end, one must reckon with the sins of their father.
This comic was made for Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS in which all students contributed a traditionally drawn comic to a class book. The book has two titles ("" and “”) and follows two themes: conflict, and magic—the former of which I chose. “The Father Is Present” is a short comic based on the story I have been working on for years (for more info, see “The Wicked and Deranged” Comic Excerpt). In it, I utilized panel composition to convey a “boxing-in” effect on the main character to convey her feelings of entrapment and claustrophobia caused by her father.
My comic has been shown at the Stamps “Commence” Senior Exhibition of 2024.
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Ink on Bristol Paper
Commence Exhibition statement: “The Father Is Present” is an excerpt from a larger story of mine, but operates as a standalone comic. In this, I explore identity and the confinements of one’s family. Parental figures hold much weight in our lives. How does one escape that weight when it becomes too burdensome? This comic is about self-transformation, whether one grows from it or not; in the end, one must reckon with the sins of their father.
This comic was made for Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Narratives class at STAMPS in which all students contributed a traditionally drawn comic to a class book. The book has two titles ("" and “”) and follows two themes: conflict, and magic—the former of which I chose. “The Father Is Present” is a short comic based on the story I have been working on for years (for more info, see “The Wicked and Deranged” Comic Excerpt). In it, I utilized panel composition to convey a “boxing-in” effect on the main character to convey her feelings of entrapment and claustrophobia caused by her father.
My comic has been shown at the Stamps “Commence” Senior Exhibition of 2024.
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