portfolio
About me
Hello! My name is Raven Keith, I'm currently 21 years old and working on getting my name out there. I have been animating since 2014, my first medium was claymation when my dad bought me my first camera, but i have since then been proficient in adobe animate and several programs on the ipad. In 2015 I began posting my work to youtube and began animating in adobe flash. I stopped animating in flash for a while and tried to learn blender but never finished anything I worked on. Then around 2018 I received my first ipad and began to learn procreate. I didn't begin animating in procreate until 2019 however, and soon I moved to rough animator and other programs. I currently use several programs and even use my pc for animation, but if required i can always work with one specific program.
I currently have been working on completing my comic and my first polished animated music video! with the occasional community event for my 400+ user discord and 8k followers on instagram. My dream is to become an official music video animator or to complete my comic and make it into an official book.
Previous work
Here you can find a portfolio like page with all of the work I've done for others, charity events I've held, contests and giveaways I have hosted, and projects I've worked on in my own time.
I pride myself in the large amount of experience I have working in on my own well as the charity events I have been successful with in the past! I am glad you, as a viewer or future employer, take interest in learning more about these. you can find all my work on my instagram @runty.raven if not enough is here for you.
Previous art
directly below are some of my personal favorite pieces! some of these were work for others and some of them were just pieces for myself.
Demo Reel
animation
2022-2023
Here is my demo reel! all of these animations were hobby work either personal or hobby commissions, and they were all completed in under a weeks time and on ipad. I am semi-proficient in adobe animate, but am not entirely familiar with all of the new updates yet but I can learn! I own the adobe suite so that would never be an issue.
I tend to animate on ipad more frequently because of the freedom having a portable animation device gives me in order to do work anywhere. I can use ipad to work with adobe as well, so if given the option to use my ipad for animations i am far more likely to get work done very swiftly.
Hobby
Commission work
Surrounding this box there is a collage of previous completed ychs (aka your characters here) I have completed! each one of the images in the collage was a different order. Those particular designs are now discontinued, but I'm very proud of how many sold so i still wish to showcase them here even if it is older art!
Below them, are a few of my favorite finished pieces for commissioners in the past and present!
These are sold to hobbyist, or individuals, and for ychs I am paid draw their character in this predetermined format.
below images are also done for hobbyists, but are unique.
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Live events I've attended and worked with
My plans for 2024 include attending my first furry con at FWA, and beginning selling at arts and crafts fairs.
I've attended many conventions, pride parades, and raved throughout the past few years, but a few stood out when I worked at them or helped on certain aspects!
My first convention panel was 2023, at Double Tree hotel by Hilton in Murfreesboro. I spoke on the varying principals of animation as well as taught people my secret to how to animate on a professional level at home for under 400$ from scratch. I hope to attend another soon!
I hosted my first booth at Ravefurrest 4, and have become good acquaintances with those who run it. I am helping design the flyer for Ravefurrest 5 as shown below and will be hosting a booth there as well!
Past contest winners
Art by Minaun9
Contests I've hosted
I have just begun creating contests but I really enjoy doing them so I'll be doing many more! so far I have done 3. The first contest I did was for a small prize, a character design. in order to enter people had to draw the character, and the person who had the best art won the character.
The second one I did was for a prize of 200$ and the contestants had to make something of one of several characters provided. I had only 19 entries but they were all very high effort! when time came to vote for the winner, Werewolfprince666 won with 58 of the total 245 votes. They entered with a cosplay tail of one of the characters.
The third contest I had was very similar to the second, same prize, same character, and winner is picked via community vote. There where two major differences though, there was no entry fee, and everyone who entered had to have the same medium, that being static art. no physical items like the last contest. This contest was much more successful with 68 entries! though many didn't follow the character references. There were less votes for this contest but there were still plenty at 165 votes! the first prize winner Minaun9 won with 21 votes.
Charity work
I only recently began doing charity work in the past couple of months, but i already have a few small things under my belt! I had previously helped friends in need raise money through art commissions but my first real charity fundraiser was an auction for a tiger design i made for the tiger new year on Feb 2, 2022. The proceeds from the auction went to stop AAPI hate! That charity helps people of Asian or pacific islander descent help fund court costs for hate crimes committed against them as well as many other things to help prevent racism and help people! It raised 40$
My next charity fundraiser was for The Trevor project. I sold some lineart to people to color in with their own characters and 50% of all the profits went to The Trevor project! This charity helps LGBTQA+ youth struggling with suicidal throughts, and is named after Trevor from the HBO max short film. This event raised 69$!
I did a collab charity fundraiser on june 22 2023, and was actually one I was invited to join by a friend! I suggested the charity who received the money however and we all agreed to st. jude! My friend pogostickz on instagram was the organizer for this event! what we did was each of us in the team did 1 step for every order bought until a complete image was drawn! We received 40 orders and raised 425$ for st jude!
In Feb 2024 I decided to open an adoptable to raise money for doctors without borders to help children in Palestine! I personally do not think any American with zero outside ties could say whose side in the war should win, but there is one thing that's true and that is that children do not deserve to pass away due to just being born in the wrong place. Doctors without borders was chosen because they help with medical aid not only in Palestine, but across the world, and they do not pick sides in a war as well. They only provide humanitarian aid and help save lives of those who are innocent. My community came together and many individuals added their OWN prizes to my auction if it reached a certain goal and i matched 1$ per 2 shares of the auction out of my own pocket as well. We ended up raising 240$ total! 100 on the auction and 140 on the share!
