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June 28, 2025

Okay we are back fr this time

Hi! Incredibly sorry I’ve abandoned this newsletter. It’s been hard to stay up to date when most of this year had been me finishing up college, causing me to pretty much have nothing to show publicly until now. I will now try to keep this newsletter going on a regular basis (like once a month probably).

Anyway here’s some stuff that happened:

NEW FILM: Rendered in Real-Time

So actually this short was my senior thesis lol. Really great to work on it, and thanks so much to @eriberryva for voicing one of the characters in this (the other voice in this film is actually my own, hahah).

As part of my senior thesis, this got its own gallery installation where I invited people to write down a memory they fear they might forget.

A sketchbook on a pedestal is in front of a projection of my film. A person is writing something in the book.
Modeling above is one of my buddies, @johnnyhy22 !!!
The book, with three pens and a sign that reads: "Write down a memory you fear you may forget soon. Then, write a comment on someone else's memory." Many memories and comments have already been added to the book in this picture.
Some people’s responses wow!

So yeah that was great and fun. Thanks for everyone who loved it, and I hope to keep making more animations in the future.

JumpHero is back with Chapter 10!

A page from JumpHero. A poppin wearing a superhero cape soars through the sky, the Sun brightly smiling in the distance. A voice sings "Super Poppin! Flies high up in the sky!" The poppin then rescues a small, blue creature from a burning building. A voice continues to sing: "Super Poppin! Saves all creature-kind." The Super Poppin theme keeps playing. Zooming out, it's revealed that the sequence was just something playing on TV. Two people, Tama and Roxy, are sitting inside an incredibly dark room, being incredibly jaded out of their minds as they watch the film. They are sitting on the floor (Tama on a beanbag and Roxy on a pillow). The bedroom they're in is filled with various music-themed decorations and items.

Oh yeah JumpHero is finally out of hiatus hell now that I graduated lol. Go read the new chapter now!

Art Fight 2025!

Look my page on Art Fight is kinda lackluster right now but trust the process. Feel free to attack me!! I’ll be on Team Crystals.

https://artfight.net/~marlenesantos

Oh yeah also I added the werewolf and vampire from my film “Weird Kids” in there lol

Okay that’s it for now, I think. Let’s see what else becomes of the rest of my life. Cya next time!

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