Amy has made a niche for herself by designing puppets for popular video series in the video game industry.
This includes Wargaming’s World of Tanks…
…and Amazon Games’ New World.
For Wargaming’s weekly “Focus Friday” series, Amy designed a puppet after the likeness of World of Tanks Community Manager Meathead Militia.
For Amazon Games’ weekly “Forged in Aeternum” series, Amy designed and served as co-puppeteer for several characters, the first based on game director Scot Lane.
She also designed and puppeteered Whiskers, based on an in-game seasonal character.
Amy served as the costume director for Amazon Games’ original series, “The Lost Ark Academy Debate Club.”
Set within Lost Ark’s world of Arkesia, the popular series featured popular Creators in a series of heated debates against each other. Amy was tasked with creating costumes for each contestant that fit into the land island of Tortoyk, home of the Mokokos – a race of tiny people.
Amy designed the costume for the resident Mokoko, played by her daughter, as well as designing and playing the Ladybug on which she rides.
For the live stream finale (Twitch: 420,000+ viewers), Amy brought to life one of the most popular characters from the game – Balthorr.
In the music video for Modest Mouse’s “The Ground Walks with Time in a Box,” Amy served as the Costume & Art Director.
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock had been sitting with the idea of “stump lords” for some time; he wanted to tell the story of numerous kings who had stripped the earth bare of all its resources. Encouraged by Amy’s aesthetic, both he & director Jorge Torres-Torres approached Amy to execute his vision.
The story of the video necessitated the costuming of more than a dozen stump lords, a group of death-like “gliders,” a coven of angels, several mummies, and a handful of “kabukis” derived from the aesthetic of the “psychadelic clown geisha” from the Lampshades on Fire music video:
Amy mapped out the aesthetic of the costumes, designing and building them alongside her partner, Michael Lovan. Amy spent an entire month searching through scrapyards, hot gluing trash, and refining the look of each character so that they would belong to the same world.
In addition to shoveling cake and chicken into her mouth through bedsheets as a mummy, Amy also makes an appearance in the video as one of the lords.
“Lampshades on Fire” is the first single from Modest Mouse’s album Strangers to Ourselves. For the music video, Amy served as the Costume & Makeup Art Director.
Inspired by the French opera Tales of Hoffman, Jorge Torres-Torres, the director of the video, asked for Amy to design and build an extravagant costume that would convey both class and “psychedelic clown geisha.” This is what she came up with:
In addition to providing wardrobe for the performers, Amy also did the makeup and blood effects.
Amy also makes several appearances in the video, not only in her infamous man suit:
…but also as a cigarette-smoking bandit:
… and as a ringmaster, slapping her partner, Michael Lovan, with a milkfish:
The American Film Institute has this to say about the film: Amy, a San Francisco artist, is haunted by a recent trauma that was inflicted by men in her life. As she veers dangerously close to a complete emotional and psychological breakdown, she plunges into the world of her art as a coping mechanism. She re-appropriates the male form by creating an alter ego that assumes power and domination. When Amy meets Kenny, a seemingly nice, down-to-earth guy, she decides to open herself up to him, hoping he can restore her faith in mankind. Blurring the line between narrative and documentary, director and co-writer Jason Banker uses the real-life art and experiences of co-writer and actress Amy Everson to craft a feminist film, which confronts rape culture and the micro-aggressions that women face on a daily basis in male-dominated spaces.
Everson is equal parts charming and dark, intense and silly, and the way she fiercely shares her fragility makes her a completely engaging protagonist. Everything about Everson, from her toy-strewn room to her voice, makes you love her. – Badass Digest / Devin Faraci
…oh my god you’ll love her in this movie. – Ain’t It Cool News / Harry Knowles
Everson is an immense presence in the film, moreso when you know she isn’t a professional actress. She starts out as a weird, damaged character but soon envelops you with her personality: quirky, odd, dark, creative, strong and yet intensely vulnerable. – Cinapse / Jon Partridge
Amy Everson, an enthralling artist and first time performer (certainly not last, she is incredible). – Fangoria / Samuel Zimmerman
…for a moment I thought I had misread the summary on Felt and was watching a documentary. Her performance as a traumatized young artist (also named Amy) is that real. – Paste / Tim Basham
