Li-Yi Wei

Paper Soul - Finalist for @pixarsrenderman Art Challenge 2026 Diorama Drama; my entry started from a dream: drifting like a piece of paper during a restless sleep. See github.com/1iyiwei/render… for project details and renderman.pixar.com/news/renderman… for all entries.

I had a great time at the Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling #SFTechWeek Hackathon hosted by @MongoDB; see cerebralvalley.ai/e/mongodb-sftw… for more information about my project.

Had a blast at my first hackathon, hosted by @runwayml .
See github.com/1iyiwei/drawta… for more details about the project, which adds motion brush as a direct-manipulation tool alongside other input modalities such as text prompts, keyframe images, and guide videos.

Turn freehand drawings into interactive mathematical constructions and physical simulations without wrestling with code or tools.
@rubaiat and I are building a prototype that blends sketches, multimodal representations, and AI. For more information, see 1iyiwei.github.io/kinetic-sketch/.

Running qwen3-coder:30b locally within VS Code via ollama on a MacBook in an ambient temperature of 91°F. 🥵