
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Short Film | Independent Project
San Juan Hill was a Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper West Side, cleared in the 1950s to build Lincoln Center. This history-inspired short film reconstructs the lost community through archival research, site documentation, and generative imagery, following a girl who saves a single tile from the rubble of her demolished home. Seventy years later, she places it into a mosaic that becomes her community's memorial. The film traces what was lost, what remains, and a community's story retold so it isn't forgotten.
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield
AI Workflows

149 W 21st New York, 1939
Shot Test | Independent Project
Reimagined 1939 New York City, where the French-owned printer Chauvelot Press operated in Chelsea, producing menus for the French Pavilion at the World's Fair. Sourced from census records and archival photos of 21st Street near 7th Avenue.
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield

Throughline
Custom Figma Skill for Weave | Independent Project
Throughline is a custom Figma Agent skill built on Figma MCP that parses storyboard frames, evaluates them against cinematography and narrative-structure heuristics, and writes a structured critique directly back to the canvas, color-coded findings plus a generation prompt formatted for Figma Weave.
Figma Agent Skill
Weave
Figma MCP
Story Principles

Sheepfold, Central Park
AI Workflow: LTX 2.3 Text-to-Video | Independent Project
Sheepfold was a working sheep farm in Central Park until 1934, when the flock was relocated and the building became Tavern on the Green. This test sequence uses archival photographs as conditioning input for a text-to-video pipeline built in LTX 2.3 and ComfyUI, with prompts refined against modern-day reference shots to correct for spatial accuracy, the flow of sheep into the meadow, sightlines, and the park's relationship to the surrounding city.
History-Inspired
ComfyUI
LTX 2.3
Claude
AI Workflows

Vintage Dog
Custom Character LoRA | Independent Project
Vintage Dog is a custom character LoRA trained in AI Toolkit on a curated dataset of public domain footage, targeting LTX-2 for video generation. The LoRA was tuned to hold character consistency across frames while reproducing a 1920s film-grain aesthetic, grain, tone, and motion, then deployed through a custom ComfyUI workflow for prompt-to-video generation.
Custom LoRA
AI Toolkit
Model LTX-2
Prompting
ComfyUI
Skills + Expertise
FILM + ANIMATION
Short Form Film
Animation
Character Design
AI Workflows
Motion Design
DESIGN + TEACHING
Product design, direction, strategy, management, and hands-on design. Adjunct Professor - Product Design, UX/UI + Emerging Tech
TOOLS + PLATFORMS
Tools: Figma, Runway, Weave, Higgsfield, ComfyUI, and Adobe CS
Platforms: TV, App, Web, iOS, Android Mobile, tvOS, Roku, Fire TV
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Short Film | Independent Project
San Juan Hill was a Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper West Side, cleared in the 1950s to build Lincoln Center. This history-inspired short film reconstructs the lost community through archival research, site documentation, and generative imagery, following a girl who saves a single tile from the rubble of her demolished home. Seventy years later, she places it into a mosaic that becomes her community's memorial. The film traces what was lost, what remains, and a community's story retold so it isn't forgotten.
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield
AI Workflows
149 W 21st New York, 1939
Shot Test | Independent Project
Reimagined 1939 New York City, where the French-owned printer Chauvelot Press operated in Chelsea, producing menus for the French Pavilion at the World's Fair. Sourced from census records and archival photos of 21st Street near 7th Avenue.
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield
Throughline
Custom Figma Skill for Weave | Independent Project
Throughline is a custom Figma Agent skill built on Figma MCP that parses storyboard frames, evaluates them against cinematography and narrative-structure heuristics, and writes a structured critique directly back to the canvas, color-coded findings plus a generation prompt formatted for Figma Weave.
Figma Agent Skill
Weave
Figma MCP
Story Principles

Sheepfold, Central Park
AI Workflow: LTX 2.3 Text-to-Video | Independent Project
Sheepfold was a working sheep farm in Central Park until 1934, when the flock was relocated and the building became Tavern on the Green. This test sequence uses archival photographs as conditioning input for a text-to-video pipeline built in LTX 2.3 and ComfyUI, with prompts refined against modern-day reference shots to correct for spatial accuracy, the flow of sheep into the meadow, sightlines, and the park's relationship to the surrounding city.
History-Inspired
ComfyUI
LTX 2.3
Claude
AI Workflows

Vintage Dog
Custom Character LoRA | Independent Project
Vintage Dog is a custom character LoRA trained in AI Toolkit on a curated dataset of public domain footage, targeting LTX-2 for video generation. The LoRA was tuned to hold character consistency across frames while reproducing a 1920s film-grain aesthetic, grain, tone, and motion, then deployed through a custom ComfyUI workflow for prompt-to-video generation.
Custom LoRA
AI Toolkit
Model LTX-2
Prompting
ComfyUI
Skills + Expertise
FILM + ANIMATION
Short Form Film
Animation
Character Design
AI Workflows
Motion Design
DESIGN + TEACHING
Product design, direction, strategy, management, and hands-on design. Adjunct Professor - Product Design, UX/UI + Emerging Tech
TOOLS + PLATFORMS
Tools: Figma, Runway, Weave, Higgsfield, ComfyUI, and Adobe CS
Platforms: TV, App, Web, iOS, Android Mobile, tvOS, Roku, Fire TV
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker
San Juan Hill, A Vanished NYC Community
Short Film | Independent Project
San Juan Hill was a Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper West Side, cleared in the 1950s to build Lincoln Center. This history-inspired short film reconstructs the lost community through archival research, site documentation, and generative imagery, following a girl who saves a single tile from the rubble of her demolished home. Seventy years later, she places it into a mosaic that becomes her community's memorial. The film traces what was lost, what remains, and a community's story retold so it isn't forgotten.
NYC
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield
AI Workflows
149 W 21st New York, 1939
Shot Test | Independent Project
Reimagined 1939 New York City, where the French-owned printer Chauvelot Press operated in Chelsea, producing menus for the French Pavilion at the World's Fair. Sourced from census records and archival photos of 21st Street near 7th Avenue.
History-Inspired
Runway
Higgsfield
Throughline
Custom Figma Skill for Weave | Independent Project
Throughline is a custom Figma Agent skill built on Figma MCP that parses storyboard frames, evaluates them against cinematography and narrative-structure heuristics, and writes a structured critique directly back to the canvas, color-coded findings plus a generation prompt formatted for Figma Weave.
Figma Agent Skill
Weave
Figma MCP
Story Principles

Sheepfold, Central Park
AI Workflow: LTX 2.3 Text-to-Video | Independent Project
Sheepfold was a working sheep farm in Central Park until 1934, when the flock was relocated and the building became Tavern on the Green. This test sequence uses archival photographs as conditioning input for a text-to-video pipeline built in LTX 2.3 and ComfyUI, with prompts refined against modern-day reference shots to correct for spatial accuracy, the flow of sheep into the meadow, sightlines, and the park's relationship to the surrounding city.
History-Inspired
ComfyUI
LTX 2.3
Claude
AI Workflows

Vintage Dog
Custom Character LoRA | Independent Project
Vintage Dog is a custom character LoRA trained in AI Toolkit on a curated dataset of public domain footage, targeting LTX-2 for video generation. The LoRA was tuned to hold character consistency across frames while reproducing a 1920s film-grain aesthetic, grain, tone, and motion, then deployed through a custom ComfyUI workflow for prompt-to-video generation.
Custom LoRA
AI Toolkit
Model LTX-2
Prompting
ComfyUI
Skills + Expertise
FILM + ANIMATION
Short Form Film
Animation
Character Design
AI Workflows
Motion Design
DESIGN + TEACHING
Product design, direction, strategy, management, and hands-on design. Adjunct Professor - Product Design, UX/UI + Emerging Tech
TOOLS + PLATFORMS
Tools: Figma, Runway, Weave, Higgsfield, ComfyUI, and Adobe CS
Platforms: TV, App, Web, iOS, Android Mobile, tvOS, Roku, Fire TV
© 2026 Kelly Shoemaker