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Lysander
Xu

         
       
        



                  
      
2025
   


 <h5>Dinner Guest</h5> <p>A host anxiously anticipates the arrival of his dinner guest.<br>In a dining room covered floor to wall in ornate tapestries,<br>the color of blood is indiscernible.<br>Short film sculpted and animated in Blender and Maya, textured in Photoshop.</p> <h5>Dear scavenger,</h5> <p>What's so similar between osedax worms scavenging from whale bones and college romance?<br><br>Desperation.<br><br>Yearning for intimacy but unable to sacrafice his<br>fear of being seen, new, desperate measures are taken by the<br>protagonist of Dear scavenger, in his search for connection.<br>Keep looking, even as people melt into fleshy, dismembered creatures<br>and university apartments distort into the dark sea floor.<br>Mixed media RPG coded in RPGMaker MZ, illustrated in Clip Studio Paint.</p> <h5>18c</h5> <p>You wake up alone in the lobby of a natural history museum.<br>Explore its eerily familiar exhibits while trying to piece together<br>how you became trapped in the first place, and how to escape.<br>18°c recontextualizes natural history as something less broad<br>and past-tense, and more up close and personal.<br>Horror RPG coded with Processing.</p><h5>Whalefall</h5> <p>A concept trailer about the offshore lazarettos once used to<br>quarantine patients of the Plague. Aptly titled Whalefall,<br>the theme of the piece is life persisting in spaces that<br>overwhelmingly reek of death.<br>Using a traditional frame-by-frame approach allowed<br>for a greater range of textures that helped even<br>stiller scenes to retain the restless atmosphere.<br>Animation compiled and edited in Adobe After Effects.</p>