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ISAIAH SANTOS
I’m an animator, designer, and print maker. I worked as a character animator for some years in the Philippines and now soon completing my Masters in Graphic Design at University of Illinois Chicago.
I’m interested in using graphic design as another tool for world-building, particularly within filmmaking and animation. I want to explore storytelling in all its forms—through narrative, abstraction, and visual systems. Stories are designed, and learning to design them well, whether independently or collaboratively, is a long-term pursuit for me.
A current project I’m working on is an animated short that reframes our relationship with food as a metaphor for toxic romantic relationships. It’s a playful exploration of emotional dependency, compulsion, and memory. For me, strong storytelling is intuitive, honest, emotional, beautiful, fun and grounded in research.
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