Where I explore new tools, experiment, and stretch my range as a generalist.

Scope

2026

A Gen Z cultural platform imagined as one AI-native brand world. Identity, music, fashion, and digital drops. Made with GPT Image 2.

Scope — Gen Z cultural platform branding exploration

Octocrab

2026

An octagonal crab drawn in ASCII. Glyphs and dither become pearl armor, neon claws, and a glowing core. Made with GPT Image 2.

Octocrab — pearl-white sci-fi crab creature with neon claws and a glowing core

Golden Flux

2026

Warmth caught mid-motion. Molten gold, orbiting trails, and grainy light flow through the dark like heat you can almost feel. Made with GPT Image 2.

Golden Flux — abstract poster of molten gold ribbons, orbiting trails, and grain on black

Midjourney

2026

Exploring different visual styles, moods, and worlds through prompt-driven image and video generation in Midjourney.

Surreal whales in colorful clouds Whales swimming through purple skies Impossible architecture with floating stairs Moebius-inspired sci-fi landscape Minimal surreal architecture Futuristic neon city

Luma

2026

Solo concept exploring how neuroaesthetic interaction can support emotional regulation. A trauma-informed, nonverbal alternative to conventional wellness apps, inspired by Your Brain on Art.

Luma

Redbrick Coffee

2025

A specialty coffee e-commerce redesign leaning on editorial typography and rich product imagery. Bold brand color meets calm layouts to carry browsing, discovery, and subscription flows.

Redbrick Coffee

TickerPulse

2025

An AI trading terminal that monitors real-time news sentiment and explains the why behind every alert, not just the what. Built for active and part-time traders, it filters market noise down to portfolio-relevant moves and backs every verdict with linked evidence, so they can act on the catalyst before the move is over.

Market Street Booklet Kit

2025

Exhibited at SF's Ferry Building and reviewed by a jury that included Jony Ive. An interactive booklet of maps, stamps, and coupons for ULI San Francisco's Market Street Reimagined competition, built to revive foot traffic and support local businesses.

Market Street Booklet Kit

I Believe in a Thing Called Love

2020

As an animator, I collaborated with an illustrator to create this kinetic typography project in After Effects, inspired by "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness, blending animation and illustration to capture its bold and expressive themes.

UN/FOLD

2020

A team 3D adventure built in Unity. As game designer, I shaped levels and mechanics where players shapeshift between humans, wolves, and seagulls to solve puzzles.

The Last Human Gestures

2026

A future archive of irreplaceable human behavior. Hesitation, waiting, wandering, and daydreaming reframed as qualities worth preserving in the age of AI. Made with GPT Image 2.

The Last Human Gestures — speculative archive of human behavior

No Signal Summer

2026

Future nostalgia and the quiet beauty of being unreachable. A summer when nothing was trying to reach us. Made with GPT Image 2.

No Signal Summer — sunset editorial poster with two figures overlooking a coast

Escape Velocity

2026

Motion, light, and leaving gravity behind. The moment everything opens up. Made with GPT Image 2.

Escape Velocity — sci-fi editorial poster of an iridescent sphere pierced by a rocket trail

Whisper XR

2025

Team project for Apple Vision Pro. An AI-powered extended reality service that simulates social scenarios to help people with social anxiety prepare for real-life interactions.

Futuristic Starship Cockpit

2025

Solo project built with Figma Make exploring what immersive flight can feel like inside a browser. Users can steer through rotation-based controls, adjust thrust, manage onboard power systems, and engage warp while traveling through layered deep space.

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Fish Ocean

2026

A predator-prey ecosystem rebuilt from an old course project, now living in a glowing ASCII terminal where fish hunt, flee, feed, and breed, and the tank cycles through boom and collapse. Made with Claude Code.

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Mirror

2023

Fast fashion e-commerce reimagined through a sustainability lens. Size-finding tools, eco-shipping, and sustainability labels to cut returns and nudge conscious purchasing.

Mirror

Missing Pavilion

2021

A parametric pavilion designed in Rhino+Grasshopper. Wave-like metal and semi-transparent glass sited at a park pathway intersection, built around light, water, and quiet.

Missing Pavilion

Running Dog

2020

A tri-gear mechanism modeled in SolidWorks. Rotating the primary crank transfers motion to two more gears in one linked movement, and a secondary crank on the central bar converts that rotation into vertical motion through a crank pin.

Running Dog — tri-gear tilting mechanism modeled in SolidWorks

About the Teddy Bear

2020

A debut 3D animated short built in Maya with a student team. As animator and scene designer, I shaped the scenes and motion for a story about responsibility and impulsive commitments, following a teddy bear left behind when a young couple parts ways.

Hey, I'm Chang. Well, the AI version. Feel free to ask me anything.

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