GUNNER SCHOOL SHADOWSHIP PROGRAM
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Motion Design & Illustration
Lunar North & Boxfort
As one of 17 students selected to be part of the Fall 2025 Gunner School Shadowship Program, and one of two selected to work out of motion design studio Lunar North in Ferndale, I spent three months working through animation briefs designed to help me develop my skills in motion design and 3D animation while shadowing the creatives at Lunar North in their professional environment.
Throughout the program, I worked mostly in Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, and Blender, and built a stronger understanding of animation, 3D modeling, lighting, materials, and motion principles.
Beyond software development, the program gave me insight into the day-to-day realities of working in a creative studio, from receiving feedback and iterating on ideas to collaborating with other creatives to understand how concepts evolve from the initial brainstorming into finished work.
The program pushed me outside of my traditional graphic design practice and encouraged me to approach design through motion, dimensionality, experimentation, and storytelling. I completed the program with a stronger foundation in motion design and a better understanding of how I want to incorporate animation techniques into my practice!
Brief #1: Power of Parallax
This project was created via hand drawn animation to show the movement of a character’s bust from one position to another.
Brief #2: 2D to 3D
For this project, I continued to work on my proficiency in Blender to turn a branch of limes from what looks like a 2D object into a 3D object!
Brief #3: Logo Animation
We were asked for this brief to make an animation for a logo to an already established brand.
Brief #4: Sports Graphics
This was a brand new brief introduced to the Fall 2025 Gunner School group. It consists of creating 5 different motion designs for a fictional game using real teams, keeping consistence with the sizing requirements for real stadium screens.
Brief #5: Final Project - Tell a Story
This project was the final group project for my three-month program, which consisted of working together with two other students (Cannon McClain & Lilliana Cantillo) to create a 40 second animation telling a story of our choosing. For this project, I took on the design and illustration portions of the project.
