Category: Creative Mixed Media

Beats, Loops, and Late Nights — How I Found Rhythm in Music Production

Before I ever touched an oscilloscope or wrote a line of C++, I was layering samples and chopping snares. Under the alias httpsavery, I spent years producing original beats, mixes, and experimental loops—blending hip hop, lofi, and ambient influences into soundtracks for chill nights and creative flow.

Music was my third creative pillar, alongside visual design and motion work. I composed everything from full beat tapes to curated playlists and SoundCloud radio-style mixes, teaching myself DAWs like FL Studio and Ableton Live along the way.

🎚️ Skills That Carried Over

Producing music gave me a deep respect for rhythm, iteration, and detail—skills I now use constantly in my engineering work:

• Audio signal flow → wiring and circuits
• DAW layering → multithreaded workflows
• Loop-building → modular, testable design
• Creative discipline → showing up and iterating daily

What I Made:

Instrumental Beats

I crafted original instrumentals—some sampled, some completely from scratch—focusing on lofi textures, warm melodies, and hip-hop drum patterns.

Tools used: FL Studio, Edison, RC-20, Gross Beat

• Jazzy lofi tracks built on vinyl samples
• Trap-inspired beats with custom 808s
• Ambient pads and textured synth layering

📻 httpsavery Radio

I curated and blended my own tracks with others into chill mix tapes, complete with smooth transitions.

Posted to SoundCloud as long-form listening experiences

• Lofi road trip mixes
• Ambient background sets for coding or drawing
• Mood-based mixes (e.g. “fog”, “night walk”, “neon rain”)

🎙️ Collabs & Custom Loops

I also produced sample packs and loops for other small artists and remixers in the SoundCloud and Bandcamp community.

Skills learned: EQ mixing, loop mastering, BPM/tempo matching

Motion, Music, and Meaning — Learning Cinematics Through After Effects & Cinema 4D

While my early graphic design work taught me visual composition, it was video editing that taught me motion and timing. Alongside my identity as Raven Arts, I created cinematic edits for gaming montages, channel intros, and community projects—mostly for the same online spaces I designed artwork for.

Using Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D, I taught myself how to sync motion with music, add kinetic typography, build custom 3D transitions, and render dramatic effects that elevated basic footage into stylized edits. These projects taught me not just software—but storytelling through movement.

From Logos to 3D Rendering: How Design Sparked My Creative Engineering Path

Before I was wiring ECUs or designing robots, I was creating digital art under the name Raven Arts. As a teenager, I began freelancing online, designing custom artwork for a wide range of niche gaming communities—from fantasy MMOs to competitive FPS clans. I created everything from logos and social media banners to ad graphics and stream overlays, often working with content creators and guild leaders to bring their visions to life.

Learning design early helped me get comfortable with complex creative software like Photoshop, Maya, Cinema 4D, Octane Renderer, and Fusion 360—tools I now use in much more technical contexts for engineering, animation, and 3D modeling.

3D Renders

Automotive Renders

Logo Designs

Banner Design