Digital Portfolio

  Intention Definition & Exploration of Ideas When doing blog investigations at the beginning of the year, a contemporary artist who caught my attention was Feng Mengbo, who is well known for his works of art relating to retro gaming aesthetics with personal memories from the Cultural Revolution. When I saw his artwork, I instantly got inspired by it because video games played a big part in my life, so I wanted to create something similar to Feng Mengbo's art pieces. After completing my first video project, I was pretty satisfied with the outcome of it and wanted to move on to creating something that was fairly similar to it. While I was coming up with ideas, I remembered working on a horror-inspired video around Halloween this school year but I wasn't able to finish it because my after effects file corrupted. After that, I got pretty demotivated because I spent a lot of time working on that project so I decided that it was best for me to move on to something new.  The the...

This week I did my investigation on 3D objects in animations. 3D models are used for a variety of mediums including video games, movies, architecture, illustration, engineering, and commercial advertising. In my case, I am using 3D objects for a video game-inspired video. By using 3D shapes, I am able to recreate a scene taken from the game Five Nights at Freddy's as shown below: Since After Effects does not have premade 3D objects like Blender, everything was made from connecting faces and sides of a solid.  When creating this office scene, I ran into an issue with trying to make the telephone into a 3D object because it wasn't something with square-straight edges where I could easily connect the side faces together. I went on youtube to find a resolution for this problem and came across a video where a person created a 3D logo in after effects. After watching this video, I decided that I was not going to use the tutorial because the duplicated layers made my computer laggy an...

This week I did my investigation on closed captions. Closed captions are text versions of the spoken part of a television, movie, or video. It was developed to aid hearing impaired people, but can also be helpful in other ways. For example, captions can be read when audio can’t be heard, either because of a noisy environment, such as a construction site, or because of an environment that must be kept quiet, such as a library. In our world today, a lot of streaming platforms include closed captions as an option to be turned on or off, such as YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. It is typically abbreviated as the letters “CC.”  Closed captions can also be used to translate a foreign language. However, instead of of calling them closed captions, they are often referred to as “subtitles.” Many people use subtitles when the speakers of a film are speaking a language that the viewer does not speak. For example, anime is universally loved by people all around the world. Since Japanese is not spo...