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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Great news! Memento Mori's world premiere will be at @horrorigins.com in Tucson AZ later this month. I am so excited for the film's premiere and will be attending in person—come say hi if you can make it! #studentfilm #filmpremiere #filmfestival #mementomorifilm

Official movie poster for Memento Mori (So Make the Most of It!) featuring Dead Human Walking on the left and Red Reaper on the right. DHW looks concerned, while Red is smiling. Her scythe is laid across her eyes, obscuring them, while a pattern strip of psychedelic eyes covers DHW's eyes. Bisecting the poster and separating the two is a strip of bullseye patterns, red and yellow concentric rings on a deep purple background. Behind both are the psychedelic patterns found in the short.
Above both is the title MEMENTO MORI in black graffiti font. Below is the subtitle SO MAKE THE MOST OF IT! in white, different handwriting
At the bottom are typed credits: Writing/Animation/Music by Axel Bennett, featuring Link Stewart as Dead Human Walking and Mystic Waterz as Red Reaper, backgrounds by Carolina Rapp, sound design by Hazel Minozzi, graphic design by Yulissa Liranzo, thesis chair Jo Anne Adams, committee members Christina Christie, Dr. Stella Sung, and Dr. Lisa Mills.

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In addition to seeing the film itself, if you can attend tonight's screening you have the option to donate 5, 7 or 10 dollars USD to get some of these perks! Sticker sheets are 5, 4X6in prints are 7, and 8x10in prints are 10! #mementomorifilm #thesisfilm #fundraising

A digital painting of a Black nonbinary human standing in a tunnel of psychedelic patterns. They are drawn solely in a bright blue outline, gazing up in wonder. The patterns flow outward from a dark pinpoint right behind their right eye.

A digital painting of just the patterns from the previous painting, except now the viewer is gazing forward into a bright light at the epicenter of the patterns.

The film poster for "Memento Mori: So Make the Most of It!" Designed by Yulissa Liranzo, this poster features Dead Human Walking on the left, looking worried. They are a Black human with a short afro and a blue dress. On the right is Red Reaper, a Black woman with bright red locs. Her shepherds crook, its curve in the shape of a bent diamond, covers her eyes. She is also upside down. The image is bisected by a pattern strip of circular dots, which are concentric rings of red and yellow, over a dark purple background. Another pattern strip of eyeballs crosses rhe image diagonically, perpendicular to the dots. One eye covers both of Dead Human Walking's eyes. At the bottom is small white text featuring the credits of the film.

A photograph of two stickers sheets held in one hand. The two sheets are one of the Memento Mori characters, and the other is of some of the patterns from rhe background.

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

TONIGHT! At 6:30/7:00PM in the UCF Visual Arts Building, the "thesis defense cut" of #MementoMoriFilm will be screened! Additionally I'm launching the beginning of my fundraising for film festival entering, featuring donation rewards like prints and stickers! #thesisfilm #blender2d #trailer

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yeeesh, sorry for the long silence everyone! I lost this account's password and then the password reset fought me for a while. But we're back and with exciting news: Memento Mori is almost finished!

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Some #VFX tests of background assets made by Carolina Rapp. I've been working on figuring out #ProjectionMapping in #Blender! #psychedelic #blender3d #fxtest

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

[Flashing Light and Colour CW!] First batch of patterns from my tests for #MementoMoriFilm. If anyone has advice about .PNG sequence textures in Blender, I'd love to hear from you! #psychedelic #gif #animation

A tall strip of dots on a deep purple background, animated to strobe between red and yellow.

An animated strip of eyes ascending across the page. The eyes are red, orange, and yellow, in concentric rings with no clear iris or sclera. They gaze directly at the viewer.

A pole of colours ascending across it. The colors are, in order: dark blue, light blue, orange, red, and purple.

Animated waves of colour that move as if breathing. They are the full rainbow.

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is a poster I made for UCF Art Knight, with promotional links to my Linktree and Carrd. They both have the same social media links, just two different formats, whichever people would prefer to use. #MementoMoriFilm

A digital poster for Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!). The background is various psychedelic patterns in horizontal strips, including wavy colours, stars, eyes, smiley faces, dots, and zigzags. On the left stands Dead Human Walking, wearing a blue dress, nonbinary flag bracelet, and beige sneakers with black bottoms. Their hair is worn in a short afro. They are holding their dark blue lunchbox. In the middle are two QR codes, the one on top labelled Linktree and the one on the bottom labeled Carrd. On the right is Red Reaper, holding her shepherd's crook across her body as if nervous. She is wearing a tan shirt, yellow skirt, lavender jacket and grey baggy jeans as well as black Converse shoes. Her hair is worn in bright-red locs with gold jewelry and a black headband keeping them off her face.

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The first three beatboards for #MementoMoriFilm! These were made over the summer, the first week I was cleared to go back to drawing after surgery. Partway through, I changed the colour of Dead Human Walking's clothing to fit their design better.

Digital painting of a bus stop bench. It is done in a streaky, impressionist style. On the bench is graffiti reading "Memento Mori" and "So make the most of it!"

A digital painting of a Black person sitting on the ground in front of the grill of a truck. This is the main character of Memento Mori, "Dead Human Walking." They are wearing a green dress and beige shoes, and wear their hair in a short afro. They are sitting up out of a ghostly outline of their body lying on the pavement. Psychedelic patterns are spreading out across the pavement, originating from their dead body, and colouring the truck grill behind them.

In a city block composed entirely of psychedelic patterns, Dead Human Walking stands before a bright white doorway, their Door to the Afterlife. They grasp the frame by its edges, staring into it. They are wearing a blue dress and on their left hand a beaded bracelet of the nonbinary flag colours. Behind them stands Red Reaper, a Black woman with bright red locks, wearing a dull yellow shirt, dusty-purple jacket, brighter yellow skirt, and grey jeans. Her hands are in her jacket pockets.

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Testing a variety of different ways for a shepherd's crook to morph into a grim reaper scythe. These animations are pretty old and from when I was first figuring out Blender's greasepencil but they're still fun. #animation #WIP #propdesign

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Memento Mori (So Make The Most Of It!) @mementomorifilm.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Fun little promotional art I put together for the sample scripts sent out during casting calls a couple weeks ago. #characterdesign #characterart #mementomorifilm #grimreaper

Character sketch of a Black nonbinary person facing 3/4 left. They are wearing a blue dress and off-white sneakers. They carry a blue lunch box. Their hair is styled in a short afro around their head.

Character art of a Grim Reaper standing 3/4 right. She is a Black woman, wearing a pale purple jacket, beige shirt, yellow skirt, and grey jeans with black Converse sneakers. She holds a purple shepherd's crook in both hands, close to her body as if nervous. Her hair is styled in bright-red locs with gold jewelry.

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