LAMBENCY.
"Gentle light sparks on the artwork. Ignited brush dashes and lines."
LAMBENCY. is the first personal and school portfolio of Shane Magtoto. Experimenting pop art x komik style with various palettes featuring their original characters (OCs) that appeared on several komiks.
DAGTUM
"Blackout strikes the moon, illusionary hollows arise."
Set in both Manila and Laguna, Philippines, it follows the lives of the Celorico twins, Alex (Girl) and Alec (Boy). The story begins in a classroom, with bullying as terrible phantasmagoria and prejudice emerge inside and beyond the school, until extraordinary events occur in Mount Makiling.
SA DILIM, AKO'Y BABANGON
A dramatic short film (music video) project, "Sa Dilim, Ako'y Babangon" (SDAB)
Worked with BSEMC Students (Word of the Bored Productions) from Our Lady of Fatima University (Valenzuela Campus), under the supervision of Mr. David D' Angelo Jr.
ALAB
A Christmas ID Station ID by Our Lady of Fatima University
Worked with College of Computer Studies and Bachelor of Science in Entertainment and Multimedia Computing Students, under the supervision of Mr. David D' Angelo Jr.
UWAK TRILOGY
"Upon demise and awakeness, sentience saunters."
UWAK (Crow) is a psychological drama and folk horror original writing x komiks that shows the plot behind multiple characters who are overcoming hardships and surviving in a modern-day and fictional environment of Valenzuela City, Philippines, where humans and supernatural creatures coexist.
UWAK series comes with three chapters: UWAK (Part 01), V1LLAN10 (Side Story), and BAKAW (Part 02) and a spin-off series INCUBUSET.
DAYONE.
"If memories become content, who are you without the screen?"
Set in 2017, Pilar, a senior high school student who is obsessed with retro media and Y2K aesthetics, begins experiencing surreal disruptions between their digital life and fragments of an analog past. As nostalgia slowly overtakes her present, Pilar must confront whether longing for the past is helping her cope— or preventing her from truly living.
A solo animated short film and capstone project under Bachelor of Science in Entertainment and Multimedia Computing (BSEMC) from College of Computer Studies of Our Lady of Fatima University.
Characters coexist in UWAK series and major revisions are applied to represent the study of social media addiction, aesthetics, and the formation of false memories and anemoia, among Filipino senior high school students.