For my first piece, I took my static, 2D illustration into Figma, and animated it using their new keyframing features in Figma Motion. I then turned this illustration into a little interactive world that visitors to my website can walk around and talk to the other dog characters in. The idea is that this is a 404 page where you have to help my dog Mochi find her way "home" (back to homepage). You can actually play it here, it's best on desktop.

The dog character NPCs and scenes are based off real places and people in SF that are a part of my life: the Clayroom woodshop with the head teacher Matthew, my old studio with my studiomate Amy, my favorite coffee shops, etc. Mochi is of course based off of my best pal who loves to curiously wander around.

Thanks to Daniel Sun for the music, it's his original song "Reflecting Pool"!