Opie
A five-eyed creature who notices more than most.
Opie began as a character experiment inspired by Opabinia, an extinct marine creature once known for making an audience of paleontologists laugh at the sight of it. There was something special there.
What started as a playful character slowly evolved with more depth. Opie became a way to think about perception, emotional overload, and what it means to stay open in a world that constantly asks us to react quickly.
With five eyes, Opie notices more than most of us. Sometimes that openness becomes clarity. Sometimes it becomes overwhelm. What becomes Opie’s superpower is the willingness to stay open anyway.
The ability to notice everything can become beautiful and disorienting at the same time. Color, movement, emotion, and contradiction coexist at once.
Sometimes the very thing helping you navigate the world gets you stuck.
Opie doesn’t return to perfect balance. Just enough softness to see clearly again, while still a little rough around the edges.
What Opie Represents
Opie became a way to explore what it feels like to hold multiple perspectives at once. Ze gets overwhelmed, distracted, tangled, and emotionally flooded sometimes.
Rather than treating empathy as something effortless, Opie explores it as an active and sometimes awkward practice.
Visual Language
The visual language combines translucent glass-like forms, painterly textures, projected color, and subtle motion studies created in Cinema4D and Redshift.
Reflections and animated lighting were used to create a sensory atmosphere that mirrors Opie’s internal experience: fluid, overstimulating, and emotionally porous.
Featured Interview
Opie was later featured by Open Call for Artists in an interview exploring my transition from brand and marketing work into more experimental, emotionally driven 3D art.
Opie has slowly become a mirror for conversations around perception, overwhelm, curiosity, and openness. If ze sparks a reaction or interpretation for you, I’d genuinely love to hear it.