Tanisha N. Cephas

Multimedia Designer | Motion Designer | Creative Technologist

Adult Swim

Pim Takes a Dive

Created to celebrate the second season of Smiling Friends, Pim Takes a Dive follows Pim’s overly confident attempt at a diving board stunt that quickly turns into an unexpected disaster.

Responsibilities

• Concept development
• Storyboarding
• 3D modeling
• Environment creation
• Lighting and materials
• Character animation
• Camera animation
• Rendering
• Final compositing

Creative Goal

The objective was to create an engaging visual story that balanced humor, timing, and cinematic presentation while remaining consistent with Adult Swim’s playful brand identity.

Skills Demonstrated

• Motion Graphics
• Visual Storytelling
• 3D Animation
• Environment Design
• Lighting
• Composition
• Branding
• Broadcast Design

Avalanche

Avalanche is a short-form broadcast ident created for Adult Swim. The piece follows a skier enjoying a quiet morning before an unexpected avalanche transforms the scene into a fast-paced comedic moment. The project combines environmental storytelling, stylized animation, and cinematic camera work to deliver a memorable visual experience within a limited runtime.

Responsibilities

• Concept development
• Storyboarding
• 3D modeling
• Environment creation
• Lighting and materials
• Character animation
• Camera animation
• Rendering
• Final compositing

Creative Goal

The objective was to create an engaging visual story that balanced humor, timing, and cinematic presentation while remaining consistent with Adult Swim’s playful brand identity

Challenges

Creating believable snow movement while maintaining a stylized visual aesthetic required balancing environmental effects, camera movement, and animation timing within a short-form broadcast format.

Movin Dough

Movin Dough is a custom comedy ident centered on a bread-selling duck who attempts to protect his cargo from a gang of mischievous dogs.

Drivin’ Fast Passin’ Gas

Project Summary

This Network ident follows Grandma and Rusty, from the show Squidbillies, competing in a high energy race for the Adult Swim trophy. The fast paced camera movement, exaggerated animation, and stylized environments help communicate speed and excitement within a compact runtime.

Dragon Hunter

Dragon Hunter is a custom ident that follows an overconfident knight who confronts what at first seems to be an annoying dragon, only to discover a swarm of dragonflies ready to attack.

DEMO REEL

RENDERS and THUMBNAILS

Creative and Technology

I believe the most impactful digital experiences combine creativity with technology. While my background began in 3D animation and motion graphics, my education in Information Systems has expanded my ability to solve problems through web development, business systems, and data visualization. This combination allows me to approach projects from both a creative and technical perspective, whether designing broadcast animation, developing interactive websites, or creating dashboards that transform complex information into meaningful visual experiences.

Technologies I Work With

Category	Technologies & Software
Creative Software	Blender • Adobe After Effects • Premiere Pro • Photoshop • Illustrator • InDesign • Adobe Creative Cloud
Motion & Design	Motion Graphics • 3D Animation • Video Editing • Brand Identity • Storyboarding • Typography • Layout Design • Visual Storytelling • Presentation Design
Web Development	HTML5 • CSS3 • ASP.NET Core MVC • C# • Responsive Web Design
Programming	Python • SQL
Data & Analytics	Power BI • Microsoft SQL Server • Microsoft Excel • Pandas • Matplotlib • Data Visualization
Development Tools	Git • GitHub • Visual Studio • Visual Studio Code • Railway
Business & Information Systems	Business Analysis • Systems Analysis • Relational Database Design • Technical Documentation • Data Validation

My Approach

Every project begins with understanding the problem before designing the solution. Whether I’m producing a broadcast ident, building a website, or developing a business dashboard, I focus on creating experiences that are engaging, intuitive, and purposeful. My creative background helps me tell compelling stories, while my technical skills help me organize information and build solutions that are both functional and visually effective.

Healthcare IT Ticketing System

This full-stack web application demonstrates incident tracking, technician assignments, ticket lifecycle management, reporting, and business intelligence dashboard concepts.

Built with: ASP.NET Core MVC, C#, SQL Server, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, and Power BI concepts.

• Incident and service request tracking
• Technician assignment workflow
• Ticket status and priority management
• Operational reporting and dashboard concepts
• Responsive user interface

FinGuard Financial Fraud Analytics System

Python-based fraud analytics system that processes 10,000+ simulated banking transactions to identify suspicious activity, generate risk scores, automate Excel reports, and visualize fraud trends.

Technologies

Python • Pandas • Matplotlib • OpenPyXL • Excel

Highlights

• Fraud Risk Scoring
• Executive Dashboard
• Automated Excel Reports
• Data Visualizations
• Investigation Recommendations

Project Preview

FinGuard Risk Simulator

FinGuard is a financial fraud analytics portfolio project designed to demonstrate how transaction data can be translated into clear, explainable risk decisions.

Skills demonstrated

• Business-rule design and fraud-risk scoring
• Interactive dashboard development
• Data interpretation and decision support
• Python, pandas, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

This simulator uses synthetic scenarios and simplified rules for educational and portfolio purposes. It is not intended for real financial decision-making.

Healthcare Operations Database

Microsoft SQL Server | SQL | Relational Database Design

A relational database project designed to support healthcare operations by managing departments, staff, patients, appointments, medical equipment, and maintenance records.

What I Built

Six connected relational tables

Primary and foreign key relationships

Appointment and staffing queries

Equipment and maintenance tracking

Operational reports using JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, GROUP BY, and WHERE

Entity Relationship Diagram

Key Outcomes

Connected staff members to departments

Linked patients and staff through appointments

Tracked equipment status and repair activity

Generated staffing, workload, and maintenance reports

Skills Demonstrated

SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, database normalization, relational modeling, data management, operational reporting, and healthcare IT concepts

About Me

I’m Tanisha Cephas, a multimedia designer, motion graphics artist, and Information Systems student passionate about blending creativity and technology. From producing broadcast animation for Adult Swim to developing interactive web applications and data-driven solutions, I enjoy creating work that is both visually engaging and purposeful. I’m always looking for new ways to combine storytelling, design, and technology to build meaningful digital experiences.