Outside client and university briefs, this is where I follow my own curiosity. Most of it lives in Blender and Unreal Engine: building the Plantally brand out into a fully animated short, learning rigid body physics and lighting through a soup-can stampede, or animating Star Wars fan scenes that somehow found an audience of over 11 million views across YouTube and TikTok. None of it started as a plan to publish. I just wanted to see if I could make something work, then kept going because I liked where it ended up.