After collaborating with MC Lars on his February 2025 Gilman Street show, he brought me on board to help reimagine his educational YouTube series Lit-Hop Academy. The show is designed as a creative English literature study guide that blends book analysis with humor and music. Each episode opens with MC Lars and a comedic sidekick discussing a featured book, culminating in an original rap song and music video that summarizes the story.
For the reboot, MC Lars wanted to replace his original co-host, Horris the Cat, with LitBot 2000, a futuristic, literature-curious robot built by the shadowy United Nations of Content Preservation. I designed, modeled, rigged, and animated LitBot 2000, drawing inspiration from R2D2, Johnny 5, and R.O.B. The robot was designed to feel retro-futuristic with expressive, modular features.
The show’s setting is an abstract space station orbiting somewhere deep in the creative ether. I handled concept design, modeling, and layout for the satellite's interiors, which consist of an eerie network of liminal, maze-like hallways inspired by the backrooms aesthetic.
In addition to character and environment work, I also contributed to motion graphics, virtual production inside Unreal Engine 5, and final editing, helping to bring the show’s surreal, educational universe to life.