Taja's Portfolio

Welcome!

So you've found my portfolio

I hope you're having as good a time as I had making this. It was a lot of work but I'm proud of the dedication it took for me to actually learn from freeCodeCamp. Take a look around. Enjoy the sights and thank you for watching me progress!


Experience

Most Recent work experience

Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

Kent State University

Adjunct Professor

Taking my digital arts skills and teaching students about the basics of digital art through Photoshop

Skills
  • Breaking down information to be easily digestible
  • Teaching New skills
  • Communication/Public Speaking
Software
  • Photoshop
  • Power Point
Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

Cloudbrink

UX Designer

Contracting that included working closely with execs for feedback and approval as well as drafting wireframes in order ot meet the needs of our users.

Skills
  • Wireframing/Prototyping
  • Incorporating feedback
Software
  • Figma
  • Photoshop Alternatives
Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

Pie for Brekfast Studios

Character Designer and Animator

I worked to rework, design, and animate the characte rnow known as 'Peony'

Skills
  • Character Design
  • Style Mimicry
  • 2D Animation
Software
  • Blender 2D
  • Photoshop Alternatives
Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

A Few Stupid Cogs

Creative Intern

Created storyboards and Kinematic Typography videos accompanied by audio for social media of the podcast, A Few Stupid Cogs.

Skills
  • Team Communication
  • Criticism
  • Incorporating feedback
Software
  • Duik Bassel (for making 2D puppets)
  • Photoshop Alternatives
  • After Effect
  • Illustrator

My Projects

Long Walk

Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

I'm so proud of the work I did on this project called "Long Walk." It's small and janky but I love it with all my heart.

LongWalk on itch.io

Ash Eater (WIP)

Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

The Ash Eater has been a long and arduous process but I hope that people enjjoy what I've done with it

LongWalk on itch.io

Untitled (WIP)

Pixelated image of a girl standing in a dark room looking off behind her in the mirror.

A bit less conventional but still something I'm proud to have worked on.

LongWalk on itch.io

Digital art

full portfolio here
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About Me

A little about me is that I primarily do animation and game design, and I wanted to learn html and css in order to create my own functioning portfolio. I'm kinda curious about exploring the idea of creating sites of fake games for people to explore. Still iffy but it's a though.