Work samples
About Alexi
Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator who has worked with clients such as INSERIES opera house & Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. She is currently in her third year at UMBC's IMDA program, where she won the RTKL fellowship. She also works as the creative coordinator at The Crow's Nest, an arts gallery & studio wholly dedicated to supporting artists whose work centers around the climate crisis. Her undergraduate thesis, A Love Letter for the End of the World was screened… more
For The Record: Phenakistoscopes
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Manananggal2022
The Manananggal is a phillipina vampire who splits her body in two. The bottom half hides while the upper half hunts. She is know to target babies and pregnant people, and became deemed a much more frightening spirit post spanish colonization.
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Enchantress2023
Enchantress
The Enchantress (European, Various) — most directly inspired by the Tale of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury tales. A knight who’s quested to discover what women want finds himself bethrothed to an old hag.
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Daphne2023
Daphne
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Selkie2023
the Selkie-- a well known celtic myth of shape-shifting beings, often women, who can only return to the water in their sealskins.
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Huli Jing2023
Acrylic paint on Vinyl
The Fox Fairy/Spirit has a lot of variations throughout East Asia. I chose to base mine off the Huli Jing, and Tang dynasty dress. The shapeshifting, predominately female nine tailed fox also takes the form of a Kistune in Japan and Kumiho in Korea.
