Hi I'm
ADVIK* SHETTY
*it means unique in Sanskrit
FILMS
- This is a short film I created for a film festival called the Chase, based on Rock, Paper Scissors. Made using Blender and Da Vinci Resolve.
As a kid, I would spend hours writing and illustrating my own books, filling pages upon pages with my ideas.
I would often show my books to my school's librarians, eager to share what I had created. It was moments like that that would reinforce my love for telling stories and entertaining people.
In the 6th grade, I penned an original play called Invisible for my school's playwriting competition.
The story was centered on a refugee child and the bond that he forms with a local boy, navigating the challenges of settling in and ultimately helping him learn to trust again.
I've completed the Trinity Communication Program, writing and delivering engaging speeches on a variety of topics ranging from fears of AI art, the dangers of labels, the evolution of advertising on the Internet, and why you should donate to St Jude's.
I started off at Grade 5 of 8 as my teacher felt I was capable, eventually earning a distinction for each grade's final exam.
Won Best Poet in a Poetry competition held at my school. I wrote a comedic piece about teenage life in Dubai.
I've reached Grade 7 of the Trinity Drama Program, performing a wide variety of pieces and achieving a distinction in every exam.
Played both guitar and bass in the school musical for the past 2 years
A fun website I developed to allow people to vote on Grammy winning songs to determine which song "truly deserved their Grammy".
A Mac menubar app I developed at Stanford Summer Session for the CS106A Contest. The app would allow users to effortlessly search for songs using their voice, along with additional features designed to enhance the music listening experience.
A bot I developed in Python for Discord servers that allows for users to easily edit the nicknames of users with simple commands.
I began my game development using Scratch, a visual programming language that helped me lay the foundations for both game design and programming.
My first attempt at creating a game in Unity using C#. The goal was to create a game to help "gamify" Chemistry. In the game, students play as an atom, picking up protons and neutrons that transform them into new elements with new real-world abilities/powerups to use.
Using your new found abilities, you can defeat Dr. "Evil Mad Scientist" and escape his lab once and for all.
A game I developed based on the idea of being able to flip your gravity at a whim. Welcome to Flipped Out, an experiment run by Defy Industries to test out their brand new G-suit, which allows you flip gravity at a whim.
WARNING: Failure to pass the tests may lead to your untimely demise.
A prototype of a fast-paced swinging game I'm developing where players must race against the clock to reach the end of each level, mastering the use of their speed and momentum
A club I started at my school where I teach eager students about game development. We meet every Thursday to work on our game, explore new concepts in Unity and make creative decisions together as a club.
We are currently developing Space Dinos (working title), a platforming game where players navigate through planets as a dinosaur to find their missing eggs.
Every day growing up, I would create hundreds of sketches on paper.
In middle school, I began to merge my art and writing skills into original comic books, with my most popular series being "Sarancha-Man & Maraco Mojo", a tale of about everyday food items coming alive as wannabe superheroes to fight crime.
During Covid, I began to teach myself how to use Blender to create 3D art and videos.
For the past 7 years, I have been doing the Trinity College of London exams for the guitar, the piano and the drums.
I am currently in Grade 8 Guitar (4 distinctions), Grade 2 Piano (2 distinctions) and Grade 1 drums (1 distinction).
For the past 2 years, I have been doing representing my school in Innoventures Got Talent, an inter-school competition where students perform for each school.
I have achieved Best Musical Band (Bronze) and Best Musical Band (Silver)
In my off-time, I like to write songs or make covers of songs with my friends.
Walk Of Life (cover):
A cover of the song Walk Of Life recorded by my friends and I. Features an original guitar solo at the end that I have written.
She's M.I.A:
An original song I wrote in 2023. NOTE: Missing vocals
Resonance
A recording of an improptu song I wrote late at night.
Training Wheels
A short intro riff I composed when I was first learning how to record audio.
THEATRE
GAMES
WRITING
CODING
MUSIC
ART