▿ 2024 DEMO REEL ▿

Music used within this reel is "TWO TIME" by Jack Stauber.

▿ 2025 DEMO REEL ▿

Still in the making!

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Hello There!

I'm Nix! Welcome to my site!

I'm a passionate Artist that loves the art of storytelling alongside building concepts and characters.

I'm also currently a 3rd year Animation student in Auckland University of Technology, working on a Capstone film called Corvus Ex Machina!

This is my art site to show case my work from University alongside some personal projects I have done!Feel free to check out my Portfolio page to see all my works, and my About page if you want to know more about me!

Hello There!

My name is Nickolouise! I'm usually known as Nix as it's a nickname I have that's easily memorable by others.

I'm a passionate Filipino Artist that resides in New Zealand.
I love the art of storytelling alongside building concepts and characters and make them come to life.

I'm skilled with ToonBoom Harmony for 2D animation, and have been learning Clipstudio Paint Ex recently for animation! I also have good knowledge and experience using some 3D softwares like 3DCOAT and AutoDesk MAYA, and basic knowledge and experience of editing softwares such as Davinci Resolve and Adobe Aftereffects!

My journey as an artist and aspiring animator started of from whenI only had access to MSpaint and a mouse alongside an online GIF maker at the age of 6 years old. I grew up watching quite a lot of cartoons and anime until it shaped my inspirations and what I like doing today!

• Corvus Ex Machina

Unfinished Capstone

• Breadcrumbs

• Destined

• Unreliable Healing

• Love and Lenses

• City Stroll

currently working on and off making a personal short animation :)

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Final Video is unfinished.

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This short film is a collaborative group project with
Alex Chen, Joseph Zhang, Ethan Van Wijk, and Yang XiangCommissioned music is composed by
Hamza Aydin

Corvus Ex Machina
3D Animated Short Film
Genre: Cyberpunk Noir, Action-Drama, Post–Post Apocalypse
Tone: Dark, Fragmented, Stylised Noir

Premise :
Amid the decaying ruins of a forgotten train yard, a vengeful enforcer named Adriel tracks down his sister’s killers. But as he descends deeper into his quest for revenge, the ghosts of his past resurface, turning his mission into a fractured odyssey between retribution and redemption.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Corvus Ex Machina is a passionate capstone project that involves our team explore and study an inspiring 3D animated series : "Arcane" by the studio Fortiche.It is also a project where we attempt to explore and execute a dark fragmented story through the art of character acting and visual storytelling; and building a world in a post-post-apocalypse where decayed giant mechs are reused to make a city for humanity to live on.

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FURTHER PLANS

Me and my team admittedly have overscoped our capstone as it's genuinely too big to just fit in a single year capstone project. Though we plan to make this project reach further and make it a fully fletched short film as a passion project.We plan to enhance it's storytelling, characters alongside it's animation and hopefully would reach a much more satisfying outcome without any tight limitations :).It will come soon in the further future!

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | 3D Coat | Autodesk Maya

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Contribution

I've contributed by art directing Corvus Ex Machina, making sure visual appeal while connected to context and story is consisted through out our development of the project.I have done character concepts art, storyboard, animatic and sketches of shot exploration, alongside colorscripts and 2D animation. I've also done the texturing of the characters shown in the film.

• City Stroll

• Breadcrumbs

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Bread Crumbs is an animated short for my 3rd year Animated Drawing class. It showcases the older sister Yona bringing her younger brother to a park to show him how to feed doves.

The short is also a study for me to learn how to animate birds, and to try and execute a light-hearted comedic timing despite no dialogue.

The characters here are originally from the capstone project of Corvus Ex Machina and this is just a non-canon light hearted short in a much more domesticated modern setting mainly due to my own interest to make an alternate universe of the siblings.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Davinci Resolve

• Corvus Ex Machina

• Destined

PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Autodesk MAYA | Capcut

"Destined" is a short animated documentary featuring my mother who I interviewed for this assignment. The short tells her story about her high-school experience in the Philippines with her friend of how she predicted the boy she'll marry in the future despite her lack of interactions with him. This silly prediction led to her friend finding it hilarious and doubting her, and it's something she has find hilarious in the long run.
The short itself is 2D, but I also learned of making a 2d rotoscope environment with a 3D environment model.

• Breadcrumbs

• Unreliable Healing

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Unreliable Healing is a 2D animated lip-sync exercise that involve interviewing a friend of mine. The context is just about her talking about how If I were a magic user and offer healing, she doesn't trust me one bit.
The character

Her character within this sequence is inspired by how she usually draws herself, but adding wings for a fantastical feel due to the context of the topic thats showcased through dialogue.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Davinci Resolve

• Destined

• Love and Lenses

PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony | Autodesk Maya

Love and Lenses is a 3D animated group project with Corina Huang, Sofia Aizon, and Charll Enriquez.

The short film is a nature documentary inspired animation where it introduces Jeremy, The Bone-Jawed Lizard, who's trying his best to woo a mate. Unbeknownst to him that the mate he tries to woo is just a decoy robot to record wildlife unsuspectedly.

Contribution
I contributed mostly on post-production - Concept Art, Animatic, Rough Pass.
But I've done some minor support work when it comes to setting up initial lighting alongside 3D animation and textures.

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• Unreliable Healing

• City Stroll

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City Stroll is a short walk-cycle loop animation where I explore character acting while doing the given task from class of making a character walk.

The style and colors is vintage inspired since I personally wanted to see if I could capture the mood and setting just through colors alone. And also I just want to animate a young boy walk as a fun exercise :D.

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PROGRAMS USED :
Clipstudio Paint | ToonBoom Harmony

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Rough Pass

Lineart pass

• Love and Lenses

• Corvus Ex Machina