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Meet Mo and Faye Ayato: SIAT’s Virtual Ambassadors Unveiled in Stunning Animated Trailer
Surrey, BC - SFU School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) is excited to announce the debut of the StudioSIAT Virtual Ambassadors, Mo Ayato and Faye Ayato, unveiled through a stunning student-created animated trailer.
This groundbreaking initiative pushes the limits of StudioSIAT’s cutting-edge technology pipeline, showcasing the exceptional creative and technical talents in a collaboration of SIAT students and students from across Canada to reach a global audience.
Starting on Saturday, March 1st, the ambassadors will debut on the official SFU SIAT Youtube channel with their first individual livestreams. After the ambassadors complete their debuts, a collaboration stream will be held with additional and exciting announcements.
Ambassador profiles
About Mo Ayato
Mo Ayato, formerly a magical red panda-esque beast known as a Cappu, is now a carefree and silly human(?). In her home world, she was a part time lab assistant to Faye in his magical studies, despite being bullied for her own lack of magic. As a result she is very skilled with her hands at making and working with construct-type technology. On Earth, she is excited to discover that since magic doesn’t exist, her hands on skills are actually in high demand- so she spends her days working with Earth tech and traditional materials to create whatever her imagination can come up with.
Debut date: Saturday, March 1st - 19:00 PST
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@siatsurreysfu
Twitter/X : @redredraccoons - https://x.com/redredraccoons
Bluesky: @redredraccoons - https://bsky.app/profile/redredracoons.studiosiat.com
Website profile: https://www.sfu.ca/siat/studiosiat/vambassador-program/mo-ayato.html
Character designer: Chockie https://www.trishachockiewong.com/
Reference artist: Kylewoo https://x.com/kylwooo
3D model: Edward Madojemu https://www.edwardmadojemu.com/
About Faye Ayato
Faye Ayato is an enthusiastic student who specialized in Magical Conjuration back in his home world. While he was a graduate studies student before he leapt through the portal, unfortunately, his course credits did not follow him to Earth. Now joining SIAT in the undergraduate program, he has become enamored with the creation of video games, the technology of which seems practically equivalent to magic to him. He got so into game design he devised a spell that allowed him to understand Japanese just so he could get his hands on information and games from overseas before their English releases!
Debut date: Saturday, March 1st - 19:45 PST
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@siatsurreysfu
Twitter/X: @ayatofaye - https://x.com/AyatoFaye
Bluesky: @ayatofaye - https://bsky.app/profile/ayatofaye.studiosiat.com
Website profile: https://www.sfu.ca/siat/studiosiat/vambassador-program/faye-ayato.html
Character designer: Chockie https://www.trishachockiewong.com/
Reference sheet artist: Ceiiru https://www.instagram.com/ceiiru/
3D model: Chockie https://www.trishachockiewong.com/
About the virtual ambassador program and Studio SIAT
The future of digital representation has arrived at Simon Fraser University with a student-created animated trailer announcing the world’s first Virtual Ambassadors. Designed to inspire and engage students, faculty, and the broader community, this cutting-edge initiative redefines the boundaries of virtual identity, storytelling, and technology. The Virtual Ambassador Program was spearheaded by StudioSIAT, SIAT’s hands-on experiential learning production studio based at SFU's Surrey Campus.
StudioSIAT at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) is a hands-on experiential learning production studio based in SFU's Surrey Campus, Central Building SRYC 3815. With capabilities in video production, motion capture, visual effects, sound recording and post production, StudioSIAT gives our students access to and experience on the latest production and post production technologies.
For further inquiries, please email J Tseng, Manager of StudioSIAT at siat_prod@sfu.ca.