esther ko

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gameplay animator + consultant (she/her) a lot of plants named Bob one devious cat named Mo-Mo! avoids direct sunlight unless it's for a Merlin lifer linktr.ee/eskoko

photo of a ground dove, its nest, and one fledgling-looking chick in the eaves of my porch. the dove is facing away and looking over its shoulder, while its chick is hunched down looking at the camera but barely visible!
a dove is sitting on its nest on the edge of a white wooden pillar where it meets the roof of a porch.
a 3d animation of a stylized crow dropping down from above with a little hop and glancing around!
a (sort-of) low poly stylized crow 3d model is posed standing against a pink background
screenshot from the game Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! it's a first person POV looking down at a pile of books on the floor that are different volumes of a series titled Monsterology: An Introduction to Forbidden Beast.
three guinea pigs plop into view from above camera and chew blankly. the guinea pig in the back peeks over the middle guinea pig.
a stylized guinea pig plops down from above camera and chews blankly while being rotated slowly
a tuxedo cat sitting in a cardboard box stares up directly into camera.
sketchbook is held open to a page showing black pen and highlighter sketches of different chefs cooking from the show Culinary Class Wars! clockwise swirl inwards, from top left: 4 chefs whispering to each other. a chef wearing a tall chef hat whistling while looking down at something. short-haired chef holding out wide a long wide noodle-looking strand. close up of chef wafting smell of a pot toward himself. a chef pouring liquid into a tall ceramic at eye height. a chef peeling something in his hands. chef pouring from a blender into a pot. a chef plucking leaves from herbs in her hand. top down of a chef using rolling pin. chef waving a paper fan while holding something with tongs. a chef with eyes closed wearing headphones.
a plate of plain pan fried radish cakes in the center! a small bowl of peanut-based dipping sauce sits next to it, and partially off frame is a plate of stir fried green beans and a platter of mushroom and napa stir fry.
a 3 tiered steamer pot is steaming on the stove! Esther's mom's right hand is repositioning the basket with the radish mixture. the lid is held open with a dish towel.
top down POV of the radish paste now smoothed into the cloth-lined basket! the basket is nested inside of a section of one of those tiered steamer pots.
a blurry close-up POV! Esther's mom's left hand holding an emptied pot over the large pot of rice flour and radish mixture. she's stirring the large pot with a barely visible wooden spoon with her right hand.
rice flour from the previous step is now mixed to a porridge-like consistency! it's now on the stove top being warmed. the wooden spoon used to stir it is sitting in the pot.
top down view of the large pot with the rice flour from earlier! it now has water added. a metal whisk is in the pot leaned against the rim too.
top down view of the shredded daikon inside of a large pot on the stove! you can see a little bit of water in there too. a long wooden spoon is mid-stir.
top down view of shredded daikon filling the inside of a food processor container.
an empty bag of rice flour is held over a large pot on a kitchen counter. pot is 1/4 filled with the emptied rice flour. there's a cluttered kitchen counter in the background.
a white cotton cloth square is draped inside a plastic-looking steamer basket! its corners are clipped along the walls of the basket with tiny metal paper clips.
angled view of my hands and my family's black and white upright piano while I play the theme from howl's moving castle. taped together sheet music sits open the piano's music stand.
Mo-Mo the tuxedo cat lays on top of her fleece cat tower cushion in front of a window. She is gazing just off the camera and is laying slightly curled so that her front right paw crosses over her back right foot.
page with 3 small black pen sketches of gharial. they're outlined with pink color pencil and shaded with green marker. "nothing to see here" is captioned above the bottom sketch, and "AHHHH" is captioned inside the mouth of the top sketch.
sketchbook opened to show a sketch collage of cassowary (birds) in a variety of poses using black pen, yellow color pencil, and green marker
black pen sketches (with teal marker and pink colored pencil outlines) of two okapi, a springbok and a bongo
a side by side comparison of a photo of a sleeping cat curled into a ball and a photo of a plate of scallion pancakes
candid sketches in black pen and color markers of people relaxing in different standing or seated poses