Hi, I'm Ami!
Hi, I'm Ami!
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I'm a self-taught visual development artist and character designer based out of Indiana. I've worked for 3 years now in a variety of fields across art. In my work, I emphasize a blend of a variety of techniques, often using traditional and digital mediums with 3D software. My background provides me with an in-depth understanding of the animation pipeline, from art to tech.
Right now, I am directing Knot This! - an independently animated opensource feature 3D film set to release in 2027, with a team of over 50 artists.
I am currently available for opportunities for work and freelance. If you're interested in working with me, please contact me at artofamiwells@gmail.com.
*Client work is not currently available due to NDAs but will be accessible upon project finalization.
Fun fact: I'm studying chemistry and have 2 years of experience professionally with the DNR and various other orgs in environmental conservation. If you have any artistic inquiries centering on science and the environment, I'd love to work with you! :)
Personal Work
Ilios: The Gift + a thought (Dec 2025)
Ever since I was little, I became obsessed with student short films on YouTube. I remember waiting each year until the Vancouver film school senior year animations would come out, and rewatching the old ones. I always imagined that I would be at a fancy art school one day, making my very own short film for my capstone, or freshman year project. As most things you plan in life, that is not the way it worked out for me. I always thought the biggest hurdle to that dream was getting accepted to my top art schools. But, even with admittance into every school I applied to and top scholarship offers, the reality of the cost of that kind of education hit me reeeaallly hard. I did everything right, and it still wasn't enough.
I've done my best to create opportunities within my area to get people making films. I created so many online communities to share resources to people like me, founded an animation club on my campus, and started a independent project of my own. But sometimes the industry feels just as disappointing and glum as those acceptance letters, lying in my closet. Sometimes I feel really, really bad about helping others get into animation as a career. There's a part of me that feels like I'm sentencing people to death by sharing websites or documents or books, even if that's admittedly incredibly dramatic.
But recently I've been trying to challenge that, by positioning myself back as that little girl, stuck at home 24/7, watching capstones on YouTube. It's been a big journey this year to enjoy creating again, and to not see it as something I need to win. Sometimes, I go through artistic growth so quickly that it's really hard to look at my own work.
At some point, I realized, even despite all of the projects I've contributed to or directed, I've never accomplished that dream of making a film fully on my own. So, as someone who is admittedly not an animator, I decided to start!
So here is one small piece in me trying to love storytelling again, and I don't care if anyone else thinks it's bad. (Which is a huge improvement!)
More of Z and Sol:
Ilios: Delineation (A Short Comic)
While I have a great love of animation, what first got me into art was drawing horrible little comic pages of my characters (something I have continued, to similar quality level, to this day. They're indecipherable to the human eye. It's my passion.)
Here are some (hopefully) not so horrible little comic pages of my characters! The very same characters from long ago.
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