Beat

An 8-year-old drew a teenage octopus made of rubber bands — floating in the ocean, headphones on, absolutely nowhere to be. She named her Beat. Aethara animated Beat in ethereal realism: detailed enough to feel real, dreamlike enough to remind you she never could be. Every rubber band exactly as drawn. Every tentacle exactly where she placed it. This is what a custom animated character looks like when a child's imagination is taken exactly at its word.