Sydney Schouten
Digital Art | Game Design | Video Editing
Sydney Schouten is a graduate from the University of Utah, with a Bachelors in Film and Media Production with an emphasis in Animation, a minor in English (Creative Writing), and a minor in the university's renowned Entertainment Arts and Engineering (Games) program.Sydney specializes in video editing and frame-by-frame 2D animation, with experience in Python and MEL scripting, Maya (modeling, UV texturing, and rigging), Motion Builder, Unreal Engine, and Unity, alongside Adobe Photoshop, Animate, Premiere, After Effects, and numerous equivalent alternatives. She also has experience in digital painting and illustrations, and is fond of creating her own written narratives to accompany her drawn worlds.For contact, please email sydneyschouten98@gmail.com or find her on Linkedin.To view additional video editing experience, visit any "Kids On The Move" social media: Youtube | Instagram | Facebook
Sydney Schouten
Influencer's Influence was a student group project completed in seven weeks for the Capstone Animation course at the University of Utah. The team consisted of four members and is a commentary on the lengths content creators sometimes go to for the sake of video content.
Patsy's Birthday was the second student group project completed in seven weeks for the Capstone Animation course at the University of Utah. The team consisted of five members and tells the story of a homeless man, Hugo, who wants to throw a birthday party for his aging canine friend.
After is a storyboard animatic created at Salt Lake Community College in the Spring of 2019. It was a solo project, completed solely by Sydney. Despite a drastic increase in artistic skill since this project, it has been included in this portfolio for its consistent pacing and lack-of-dialogue narrative.
Sydney Schouten
Sydney Schouten
A Grape! was a student duo project completed in three weeks for the 3D Character Animation course at the University of Utah. The short was created utilizing resources such as Mixamo and Motionbuilder.Original audio via The Game Grumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sltHgrrL6fw
This video is a collection of 3D animation assignments from the 3D Computer Animation course at the University of Utah. The course heavily focused on using and seamlessly combining pre-existing and motion captured animation, but also provided opportunities to learn key poses and graph editing.
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| Title | Genre | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Mythical | Fantasy | It's a new age of gods; or, rather, it's supposed to be. But the turnover rate isn't what it should be... the next generation of gods knows this. |
| There Is No Honor Here | Experimental/Autobiographical | An experimental piece about growing and finding oneself out of undesirable circumstances, that can't quite be accurately summarized. |
| The Rocket Man | Sci-Fi (Adapted Screenplay) | Phoebe dreams of the stars, and her father's work in space. Her father dreams similarly, but not identically... |
| Resist | Sci-Fi | It's a process that one never thinks will happen to them, to be Integrated. Until it does. One Integrated refuses to leave those he left behind in the dark. |
| Mandelbrot | Post-apocalyptic fantasy | On an abandoned, dying world, an archivist in search of inspiration finds more than they bargained for, in the last place they expect to find anything at all. |
Sydney Schouten
Soulbound
Soulbound was a collaborative project for the University of Utah's Traditional Game Design course in the Spring semester of 2023. Sydney Schouten and eight colleagues created a short fantasy adventure with power up elements as a core gameplay mechanic, with a concrete storyline and end goal.
Sydney Schouten
Server
Server (Also known as "Server") was a collaborative project for the University of Utah's Alternative Game Design course. Over the course of the Fall 2022 semester, Sydney Schouten, as well as eight other individuals, created a short video game with the intent to express a message regarding a real world issue, rather than merely provide a gameplay-centric story and experience.
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Thus, Always
Thus, Always is a visual novel with turn-based combat elements created in April of 2024 for the Utah-run "Thoughtful Jam" competition hosted by Serious Gamers. A collaborative effort of a team of two, Thus, Always was completed in three weeks, with a rough script completed in approximately three days. The secondary theme of the jam, "Set up," drove the narrative in a direction regarding the burden of legacy, and how what is owed or promised to burgeoning generations is oftentimes tainted or flawed.Thus, Always won second place in the "Thought-provoking" category, and fourth place in the "Visual Presentation," "Audio Presentation," and "User Experience" categories among a total of fifteen submitted games.
