Kaya Piatt

Skills

Video Editor, Animator, Game Designer

Kaya has designed several video games using Unreal engine, or varying genres. Kaya has also used various resources to create a quick animation along with an edited video, within a few days.

The beginning of their art

This is when Kaya started out her art career, and started to draw. It wasn’t as big off a start as the other years, but this is when they started getting into art, and a bit into editing.

7th grade

Slow progress through art

Kaya continued to learn how to draw, slowly entering the world of 2d frame by frame animation. But at the end of this year Covid arrived and gave opportunity to draw more.

8th grade

Start of exploration into art styles

Kaya starts to draw a lot more. Improving their existing style, but using art guides to learn how to draw a person, and start retaining a cleaner and more appealing style.

9th grade

The true improvement in art

This is the year in which Kaya learned to explore their art skills and improved upon what they knew, to slowly find what art style fit them best.

10th grade

Start of making games

Kaya started out making a maze-like game, with the basic factors of a game. They still continued to explore with their art and figuring out what they do best.

11th grade

Improvement with game design

Kaya spent the whole year of 11th grade making an 8bit style RPG, with 1 other game designer and 1 artist. It was a small group of people but they managed to make a playable game that would take time.

Internship

Animation and Video editing start

Over the summer before their final year of high school, Kaya interned with QUED animation studios to learn how to use their art skills to animate it out, and how to put videos together to create a edited video.

12th Grade

3D modeling and animation

Kaya self-taught themselves how to use Blender to learn how to 3D model, with some help from another classmate. After they made the 3D model they put it into the Unreal engine and animated the skeletons to make the models move.

Personal

Digital art and 3D animation

Kaya has learned over the years through personal experience how to make various styles and types of digital art. While learning how to improve upon their digital art, they have been also learning how to make animations in both 2D and 3D style.