As I brainstormed ideas for this project, Loud, electric music echoed in my neighborhood and through my windows, I found myself swaying to the beat and thought, why dont i make a little character to dance with me? Creating this character as an interactive tik tok filter was a challenge, especially because it required designing the animation that could align and respond to real time movements. I began in blender, building the character and bringing it to life with skins and texture. This was the most enjoyable part of the process for me, being able to create a 3D creature from scratch just as I envisioned it is a tough but rewarding Process. Once I had the design, the emphasis shifted to awakening the character through animation. This part of the process was most time consuming, blender offers an endless amount of opportunities to adjust your creation and get it just right, so exploring all those options and tweaking it to look most accurate was what I invested in most. I played with various movements and dance moves, testing what would feel inviting and energizing without being too complex. I was able to successfully have my character mimic the macarena dance, from there I included “the wave” and other dance moves.  I aimed for each movement to feel organic and rhythmic, in order to encourage users to mimic or engage with it. Once my dancer was animated and complete, I arranged the different versions in effect house, where it all comes together and turned into an interactive tik tok filter. This project is great because by transforming my creation into a social media filter, I'm able to share my work to a different audience and encourage users to actually interact with it. Ultimately this process highlighted the flexibility and adaptability of digital art, allowing me to transform my creation into a social media filter and share it with a different audience seeing it “live” and interactive in the digital world.