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Hello! I'm Tahnee, an ARtist and animator! I love working on fun, goofy and cute projects, and making nice things exist with magical mediums! Here are a few XR pieces from the last few years. The top row shows some of my personal projects: RC Kaiju (remote-controlled kaiju with interactions programmed by @taviuskoktavy) , @coastars, and augmented acrylic paintings; I art and animation directed @pillowsocial, animated @waba.pet (by @edwonedwon), and the bottom three are Instagram filters I've made for fun!
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#AR #ARtist #animation #animator #3D #portfolioday #3Dmodels #MR #XR #VR #spatialcomputing #augmentedreality #artdirector #fun #cute #googleyeyes #adorbz #interactive #interactivetechnology #artandtech #visionary #magic #magicalart #immersive #immersiveart #artist #calarts #monsters #igfilter #personalprojects

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
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#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

Wow! @pencilxr won an Auggie for Best Consumer App at @awe.xr! This is the second year in a row that an XR project I’ve art directed has won that prize! Let’s see if I can keep it up. It’s such an honor for my work (I wrote all the lessons/made all the content) to be recognized and enjoyed by the XR community! We had a booth that was poppin’ — and so many people came through that said “I can’t draw” that ended up making a drawing they were happy with in the end! Some people found our booth a peaceful place to get into a cozy flow state amidst the chaos of the floor. Being able to take the digital and turn it into something tangible, while learning and practicing real skills, is something so special! In the age of AI, I think it’s especially important for people to find joy in drawing and remember why artists make their work in the first place.
Anyway, YAY! We won a prize!!!!!!
✏️🏆✏️
#AWE #AWE25 #AWE2025 #auggieaward #winner #yay #drawnwithpencil #quest3 #spectacles #XR #AR #mixedreality

I got a pair of @snapchat @spectacles and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! It was great catching up with friends and making new ones at LensFest! As a refugee coming from Spark (all user-made IG filters are going away in January), I needed a new home to go to. As an ARtist/animator, I’m finding Snap’s platform easy enough to pick up, and am challenging myself to make lots of Spectacles projects! The Spectacles are really easy to use and fun with friends (which to me is a priority with AR).
1. Someone had to make #NyanCat! 🌈😸
2. IT IS FALL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!
3. The joy of flying Turty around
4. Joy maximized with attacking cities with a kaiju
5. Some friends!
What would you like to see me make on #Spectacles?
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#spectacles #snapOS #snapspectacles #ar #xr #augmentedreality #nyancat #nyan #poptartcat #fall #autumn #seasonalchange #handtracking #turty #kaiju #magic

I got a pair of @snapchat @spectacles and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! It was great catching up with friends and making new ones at LensFest! As a refugee coming from Spark (all user-made IG filters are going away in January), I needed a new home to go to. As an ARtist/animator, I’m finding Snap’s platform easy enough to pick up, and am challenging myself to make lots of Spectacles projects! The Spectacles are really easy to use and fun with friends (which to me is a priority with AR).
1. Someone had to make #NyanCat! 🌈😸
2. IT IS FALL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!
3. The joy of flying Turty around
4. Joy maximized with attacking cities with a kaiju
5. Some friends!
What would you like to see me make on #Spectacles?
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#spectacles #snapOS #snapspectacles #ar #xr #augmentedreality #nyancat #nyan #poptartcat #fall #autumn #seasonalchange #handtracking #turty #kaiju #magic

I got a pair of @snapchat @spectacles and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! It was great catching up with friends and making new ones at LensFest! As a refugee coming from Spark (all user-made IG filters are going away in January), I needed a new home to go to. As an ARtist/animator, I’m finding Snap’s platform easy enough to pick up, and am challenging myself to make lots of Spectacles projects! The Spectacles are really easy to use and fun with friends (which to me is a priority with AR).
1. Someone had to make #NyanCat! 🌈😸
2. IT IS FALL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!
3. The joy of flying Turty around
4. Joy maximized with attacking cities with a kaiju
5. Some friends!
What would you like to see me make on #Spectacles?
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#spectacles #snapOS #snapspectacles #ar #xr #augmentedreality #nyancat #nyan #poptartcat #fall #autumn #seasonalchange #handtracking #turty #kaiju #magic

I got a pair of @snapchat @spectacles and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! It was great catching up with friends and making new ones at LensFest! As a refugee coming from Spark (all user-made IG filters are going away in January), I needed a new home to go to. As an ARtist/animator, I’m finding Snap’s platform easy enough to pick up, and am challenging myself to make lots of Spectacles projects! The Spectacles are really easy to use and fun with friends (which to me is a priority with AR).
1. Someone had to make #NyanCat! 🌈😸
2. IT IS FALL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!
3. The joy of flying Turty around
4. Joy maximized with attacking cities with a kaiju
5. Some friends!
What would you like to see me make on #Spectacles?
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#spectacles #snapOS #snapspectacles #ar #xr #augmentedreality #nyancat #nyan #poptartcat #fall #autumn #seasonalchange #handtracking #turty #kaiju #magic

I got a pair of @snapchat @spectacles and THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! It was great catching up with friends and making new ones at LensFest! As a refugee coming from Spark (all user-made IG filters are going away in January), I needed a new home to go to. As an ARtist/animator, I’m finding Snap’s platform easy enough to pick up, and am challenging myself to make lots of Spectacles projects! The Spectacles are really easy to use and fun with friends (which to me is a priority with AR).
1. Someone had to make #NyanCat! 🌈😸
2. IT IS FALL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!
3. The joy of flying Turty around
4. Joy maximized with attacking cities with a kaiju
5. Some friends!
What would you like to see me make on #Spectacles?
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#spectacles #snapOS #snapspectacles #ar #xr #augmentedreality #nyancat #nyan #poptartcat #fall #autumn #seasonalchange #handtracking #turty #kaiju #magic

##:>•👋! 🦋?! 👀!!!

#snurffles #🦔 #hedgehog #animation #cute #hedgie #adorbz #callipeg #2Danimation #OC #character #curious #butterfly #oopsie #sniff #boop #boopthesnoot

Here’s the Blood Moon eclipse from last night, quite an impromptu shoot! Shot on my 60D with a 200mm lens, which zooms in *just enough* to capture the moon, then sequenced in After Effects.
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#bloodmoon #eclipse #nightphotography #canon #aftereffects #moon

Krita and Callipeg are wonderful animation apps for desktop and mobile! Check them out if you’re an animator looking to try some free or very affordable software!
#animation #adobeanimate #opensourcesoftware #opensource #animationsoftware #freeware #krita #callipeg #animator #kde #adobe #adobealternates #animationtips

MODERN SURVEILLANCE: some drawings I unearthed from 2020. Can we trust wearing cameras on our faces? Can we trust others? What are we signing up for, as individuals and society?
I was obsessed with the show Spy in the Wild when I drew this (love me a good nature doc, the people are always the most interesting animals in them) and it got me wondering what a humanoid planted to observe humans would look like.
AI chatbots are essentially that now. But what if they were walking around, ordering coffees next to us in line? Casually eavesdropping? To liken it to Spy in the Wild, who is doing what with this data— are there even humans on the other side, or is this all a simulation?
All of this is just fiction-frenzied brain-food. I have so much dystopian scifi to write and share.
I did not like wearing a camera on my face all day, it made me uncomfortable for everyone around me. Had it been an open-sourced device that I had full control over, I would have felt very differently. No shade at any friends who are enjoying camera glasses— they were really excellent for certain things, and I’ve definitely missed documenting life moments I wish I had been able to record. But that’s what a sketchbook can be for!

#ballpoint #ballpointdrawing #ballpointpen #art #blackandwhite #sketch #portrait #spycamera #camera #eyes #eyedrawing #scifi #ai #horror #bnwart #tech

MODERN SURVEILLANCE: some drawings I unearthed from 2020. Can we trust wearing cameras on our faces? Can we trust others? What are we signing up for, as individuals and society?
I was obsessed with the show Spy in the Wild when I drew this (love me a good nature doc, the people are always the most interesting animals in them) and it got me wondering what a humanoid planted to observe humans would look like.
AI chatbots are essentially that now. But what if they were walking around, ordering coffees next to us in line? Casually eavesdropping? To liken it to Spy in the Wild, who is doing what with this data— are there even humans on the other side, or is this all a simulation?
All of this is just fiction-frenzied brain-food. I have so much dystopian scifi to write and share.
I did not like wearing a camera on my face all day, it made me uncomfortable for everyone around me. Had it been an open-sourced device that I had full control over, I would have felt very differently. No shade at any friends who are enjoying camera glasses— they were really excellent for certain things, and I’ve definitely missed documenting life moments I wish I had been able to record. But that’s what a sketchbook can be for!

#ballpoint #ballpointdrawing #ballpointpen #art #blackandwhite #sketch #portrait #spycamera #camera #eyes #eyedrawing #scifi #ai #horror #bnwart #tech

This painting was a gift for some dear friends who helped take care of my grandma, who passed last year. These flowers kept a lovely lively touch on the dining table, something my grandma appreciated, especially during lively breakfast conversations. And these bouquets lasted very long, what felt like a month or more! So I decided to make a bouquet that would really last forever.
Acrylics, 16x20, Dec. 2025

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#painting #flower #flowers #bouquet #pink #blue #gift #acrylic #traditionalmedia #traditionalart #🌸❤️ #acrylicpainting

Lil’ Octo! Gosh there has been so much happening lately that I need to post about, but in the meantime here’s a little sketch I did when in recovery mode! (My body’s battery takes longer to recharge than most). I started using an #astropad iPad Mini screen covering + Pencil tip, and I can say that while it isn’t exactly like paper, nor a Wacom, it does prevent the Apple Pencil tip from iceskating all over the screen, so I do like it. It does dampen screen colors a little because it’s so thick. But drawing is more pleasant!
Shoutout to the new #Procreate brushes. I still stand by Rebelle (desktop) for having THE best digital pencil out there, but at that point, you might ad well just draw with an actual pencil! (I feel like my life revolves around pencils sometimes).
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#inktober #octopus #characterdesign #cute #squishy #digitalsketch #blackandwhite #shiny #slime #art #🐙 #ipad #ipadart #ipadmini

Get you a bestie who can do both. Happiest of birthdays to @tahnmeep !!!! I love being friends with you and all the shenanigans we get ourselves into. There is no one else like you in the world and I am honored to even associate with you. I wuvs you!!! 🤓

Getting in on the Instagram ultra-wide Cinemascope trend! Been playing with Quill VR animation (this is day 4)— enjoy a little @snurffles hedgehog darting back n forth!

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(P.S. render out as an h.265 if you also wanna make one!)

#quill #vr #animation #quillustration #ultrawide #cinemascope #🦔 #snurffles #hedgehog #cute #runrunrun

And now presenting: a silly photo of Mr. Birb and me! #classyandgoofy