Hi!

My name is Aidan von Conta, I’m an Interactive Media & Game Development student (in the audio concentration) from Harvard, Massachusetts. If there’s one odd detail about me that I’d wanna share, it’s that I love the rain.

While I still have plenty of fundamentals to tackle in essentially every artistic pursuit, I use whatever skills I have to make strange little creations. I enjoy 3D modeling primarily, mostly hard-surface and sometimes procedural art, but I sometimes suffer from chronic “get-halfway-through-then-forget-about-it-ism”. The short but intense bursts of class help with that. 🙂

I draw so much inspiration from one of my favorite sci-fi shows, Thunderbirds (by Gerry Anderson), and being able to replicate the kinds of scale models he had in Blender or some other appropriate 3D program currently sits as my main goal. Older sci-fi that uses kitbashed miniatures is something I adore, and Thunderbirds strikes a great balance between totally implausible and perfectly reasonable designs…most of the time.

As evidenced by my major, I am a sound guy and I bring my microphone everywhere I go. Just the other day, when it was demonstrably rainy, I took it out to get a lengthy sound bite. You can check it out below, but be warned, it’s a touch over 5 minutes.

I spoke briefly about my writing in class, I primarily write for Dungeons & Dragons, but I’m getting back into the habit of creative writing for no particular reason. I attached some excerpts should you be intrigued.