Introduction

Here you will see the summary of both individual and group work completed over Semester 2. Taking inspiration from simple and clean websites, I have made use of After Effects and Photoshop to add graphical animations to this site. Hope you enjoy browsing through my site as much as I've enjoyed creating it!

Workshops 1–4

In this semester, we have participated in four different workshops such as Creative Coding, Projection Mapping, Making, and Physical Computing. All in which are a very new experience to me. Documenting the process throughout all four projects, here you will see the deliverables that were created by my groupmates and I.

1 Coding
Fleur 'n eggs

Choosing to create NFTs trhough image generation, my group and I wanted to hop on the NFT character trend and create a bunch of fun images that people could relate to. Fleur 'n eggs is a series of flower and eggs NFTs each having their own special facial expressions, accessories, shoes and also their best buddy friend.

We decided to code out its body so that in every image generated, its ever-changing body would create a new shape so that no two nfts are exactly the same. Adding on a total of 4 different element with different coloured backgrounds, we were able to generate over 5,000 combinations in P5js.

The biggest learning point in this projetc was figuring out how to use array code in P5js to give us the random mix of elements.

2 Screens
Eat Your Veggies!

This concept initially came about as one of my groupmates declared that she does not eat vegetables so we decided to dedicate this project to shame her into eating her veggies. Eat Your Veggies is a seemingly mindless and just plain funny, whilst projecting abstract videos and text onto two different cutout shapes.

Taking the main colours of commonly found vegetables such as broccolli, carrot, corn and cabbage, my group created 3 different abstract videos in AfterEffects as well as a text video to be used as the background.

We were then able to take the visuals created and imported them into P5js where we created masks to control the points of the video as they were being projected onto the 3D shape cutouts.

3 Making
What is Love?

The concept of Love can be widely viewed by different people in different context. What is Love? is my intepretation of that concept using two individual geometric pieces. Depending on how the pieces are joined and the perspective of the viewer, they come together to form different heart-shaped formations.

Through this workshop I have learnt to be very meticulous when crafting out 3D paper mockups as even one centimetre can be detrimental to the creation of the mockups. I have also learnt that it is important to be patient and take my time especially when cutting and joining the edges together.

Ending with a quote "Love is love, and it doesn't matter who you are, who you love or how you love... it depends on you."

4 Play
This is Halloween

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favourite movies and as our concept for this project, we decided to recreate a scene from that. You will see flashing lights coming within the pumpkins, shadows of scraggly trees and lastly, Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King trapped in a spherical globe.

This was our first experience creating a circuit and dealing with an Arduino board. Connecting a simple circuit of three coloured LED lights to a round battery, we attached a rotator motor which allowed the LED lights to flash at different speeds.

At the end you will see a short 13 second clip compiling of shots taken at different angles to give a whole halloween experience.

Process

Over the course of the semester, it was an eye-opening experience learning different software and techniques. Personally, I enjoyed working in a group as we were able to bounce ideas off each other and solving unexpected issues were also easier with 3 brains instead of one.

Conclusion

Through these four projects, I was able to experience different techniques that I initially thought "designers didn't need". It really opened my eyes to a whole new world of programmes outside of the Adobe software that I actually find useful for designing in the future especially as we move into a more technologically advanced era.

Some of my most interesting findings this semester are: Honestly building this website was the most fun I had all semester and it definitely has me wanting to learn more during our summer break.

What are some of my achievements? Again, this website is probably my biggest acheivement having no idea what the code meant in the beginning to understanding how it works just a wee bit more. But little acheivements like building the circuit, setting up our projection mapping and of course creating our first OpenSea account are equally as fufilling looking back.