Lunar Gala 2025: Elysium
3D/Motion
Timeline: September 2024 - March 2025
Role: Motion Designer
Team: Garrett Lee, Isabel Fleck, Karis Cho, Emily Lau, Silvia Shin, Jeff Ye
Tools: Blender, Figma, Adobe Premiere Pro
Lunar Gala is a student-run fashion show at Carnegie Mellon University, where designers bring to life their interpretation of the year's theme to display for thousands of attendees. For Lunar Gala 2025, I was part of the motion design team, tasked to work hand in hand with select designers to support their vision through animated backdrops, while fulfilling the theme of 'Elysium' and following the motifs meant to be shown throughout the entire show.
LINE ANIMATIONS
Recupera - Se
Recupera-Se is showcased in Act II, with fashion designs by Mikayla Gee, Jason Asiedu, and Nataniella Essang, and music by Samyuktha Athreya. Act II revolves around the theme 'Blossom', encompassing aspects of beginnings, growth, and awakening. For this line, I incorporated colors from the designers fashion line, used the circle motif that appears in all of Elysium's line motions, and explored using particle systems in Blender to simulate sand.
Self Love
Self Love is showcased in Act IV, with fashion designs by Nate Neira, and music by Evan Neely. Act IV revolves around the theme 'Embrace', and is all about the acceptance, fulfillment, and hope of oneself. The designer wanted something metallic, and bold, to align with the street-style fashion of their line. For this line, I modeled several different abstract objects, and added metallic textures, making sure some of them had slight color variations as to match the bold colors in the fashion line. I added different timings and directions to the animation of several objects, and followed the circle motif that all the Elysium line motions hold.
ACT ANIMATIONS
Act animations are played in between each of the four acts. I was in charge of scenes one and four for the act animation that plays before Act II : Blossom.