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Lysander
Xu

         
       
        



                  
      
2025
   


 <h5>Dear scavenger,</h5> <p>What's so similar about osedax worms burrowing into whale bones and college romance? Body horror.<br>Yearning for intimacy but unable to overcome his fear of being seen, desperate measures<br>are taken by the protagonist of Dear scavenger, in his search for connection.<br>A walking simulator coded in RPGMaker MZ.</p> <h5>Dinner Guest</h5> <p>A host anxiously anticipates the arrival of his guest.<br>In a dining room covered floor to wall in ornate tapestries, the color of blood is indiscernible.<br>Sculpted and animated in Blender and Maya.</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 how you became trapped in the first place, and how to escape.<br>18°c recontextualizes natural history as something less broad and past-tense, and more up close and personal.<br>Coded with Processing.</p><h5>Whalefall</h5> <p>A concept trailer about the offshore lazarettos used to quarantine patients of the Plague.<br>Aptly titled Whalefall, the theme of the piece is life persisting in spaces that overwhelmingly reek of death.<br>Frame-by-frame animation, illustrations compiled and edited in Adobe After Effects.</p>