关于我
🪐About Me
Hello, and welcome to this website. I'm Elko, and I am currently a student majoring in Animation and Concept Design at SCAD.
If you would like to view my résumé, please visit my LinkedIn.
I am a left-handed concept design student with color vision deficiency. I am passionate about drawing, worldbuilding, and technology. Here, I share my artwork and blog posts.
I hope to treat everyone with sincerity and enthusiasm. My pursuit of art is centered on originality, independence, and meaningful ideas. The Star of Embarkation is the long-term hard science fiction project I have been building. I have devoted seven years to its development, and the story has gone through multiple complete revisions and reconstructions. I may share more of my plans and progress on the blog in the future.
The story of The Star of Embarkation begins when the last survivors of humanity escape a war-torn Earth aboard a spacecraft and arrive on an alien world inhabited by another intelligent species. There, they discover that the planet's lifeforms can suppress electricity and thermal energy, causing the entire logic of human industrial civilization to become nearly ineffective. When faced with this alien species, the leaders of the survivors offer five fundamentally different answers: coexistence, peace, conquest, integration, and exploitation. As their ideologies diverge, cooperation gradually gives way to conflict, and they ultimately become enemies.
Will humanity learn to coexist with another intelligent species, or will it repeat the fate of Earth on the Star of Embarkation?
🖥️ About This Website
This website began as a simple experiment for learning, documenting, and creating.
I built this website using Astro because tools such as Adobe Portfolio do not allow users to save their websites locally. This inability to export projects, effectively forcing users to continue paying subscriptions, is clearly an anti-user design created to protect corporate interests. As a result, I prefer free and open-source tools that provide the features users actually need. These tools give me greater confidence and security in preserving my creative work.
I use AI tools for programming, which is also one of the ways I learn to code. I will continue adding more features to improve the browsing experience.
This website is still under active development. Thank you for visiting!
💐 Acknowledgments
Thanks to the Astro Team for providing clear and easy-to-use starter templates that helped me quickly begin building this website.
Thanks to my mentor at SCAD, Roberson, who inspired me to create this site.
Thanks to my friend Peter Pan for the help and support.
Thanks to GitHub for providing free hosting services.
Thanks to utteranc.es for providing a lightweight comment system solution that allows my static websites to have a commenting feature.