About

General / 01 October 2024

Greetings!

I'm Xinyu, though I go by Charlotte, and people online know me as 小F/小艾芙 (Smolleff). I'm currently in my second year of graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.

With over 10 years of digital drawing experience, I’ve developed a strong foundation in 2D/3D game art and animation, excelling in creating a variety of stylized game assets. I aspire to create gentle, heartwarming games that help the younger generation overcome life’s challenges.


Additionally, I am a small online influencer with 150K subscribers across Bilibili, Douyin (TikTok), and YouTube. My game art animations have amassed over 800 million views across the internet!

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Awards/Exhibitions

General / 30 September 2024

Exhibitions:

Cleveland Public Library Video Game Exhibition, Cleveland, OH, Nov 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQiYBii5hqo 

Games for Change Conference Exhibition, New York, NY, June 2024. https://projects.etc.cmu.edu/unsolved/ 

Alt.Ctrl Exhibition, Games Developers Conference, San Fancisco, CA, Mar 2024. https://gdconf.com/alt-ctrl-gdc 

B.F.A Senior Show, Southern Methodist University, May 2023. (In progress)

Rebirth, Student Organized Art Collective, Nov 2022.

Visual Arts Scholastic Event State Exhibition, Texas Art Education Assoc., Apr 2018 & Apr 2019.

Youth Art Month State Capitol Exhibition, Texas Art Education Assoc., Mar 2018.

Young Masters Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Feb - Apr 2018.


Awards:

Mary Vernon Painting Prize, Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist University, May 2023.

The Doolin Grant, Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist University, 2023. 

Artistic Scholarship, Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist University, 2019 - 2023.

Third place, Finding the Future Star of Sky: Children of the Light Season of Performance Creative Video Event, Sky: Children of the Light Mobile Game Bilibili official, July 2022. https://gy.biligame.com/byjzj 

The Eternal Flame of the Firefly Award, May 5th Friend Festival Spring Creative Video Event, Honor of Kings Mobile Game Bilibili official, Sep 2022. https://www.bilibili.com/blackboard/activity-7ZVHH9ggr7.html 

First place, The Light Hunting Carnival, Sky: Children of the Light Summer Creative Video Event, Sky: Children of the Light Mobile Game Bilibili official, Sep 2021. https://gy.biligame.com/xgjnh?spm_id_from=333.788.b_76696577626f785f7265706f7274.1 

Mole Talente Award for the Painting Section, Mole Fan-art Creative Compitition, Mole Manor Mobile Game Bilibili official, Oct 2020. https://t.bilibili.com/446589329344648593?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0 

Gold Key awards [for two artworks], The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2019 and The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Feb 2019.

Recognition [for three artworks], Visual Arts Scholastic Event State exhibition, Texas Art Education Association, Apr 2018 and Apr 2019.

Outstanding Achievement, Youth Art Month State Capitol Exhibition, Texas Art Education Association, Austin, TX, Mar 2018.

Recognition for Young Masters Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Feb 2018.

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