Self Love / Self Help / Send Help is a short video essay I made to explore and negotiate how I feel toward my own body and identity(ies). I collected some "triggers" and put them on a canvas together with my avatars. There are 3 scenes: Home, Identity, and Body. By using these avatars as a malleable proxy and an extension of myself, I attempted to mediate my relationships with these triggers. The movement and texture of the avatars were means to express how I felt and wanted

Getting Started - Character Model As is the case with a lot of my final projects, I started this assignment with the intent of creating something around Taylor Swift. So, the obvious first step was creating a Taylor Swift avatar on Fuse. Fuse doesn't have a lot of templates to choose from, but luckily, I could just go with generic white girl to create my Taylor Swift avatar. I gave her a biker/fighter outfit and medium-length blond hair. I spent quite a lot of time trying to

//For storyboard and initial sketches, read here. TLDR version: It's a fan-made music video for Bicycles for Afghanistan – Юность (Youth). Art is based on original illustration by http://eveningworkroom.com/ Teamed up with Andrey We started with storyboarding and cutting the song to a 1-min length. Knowing the song's progression helped with assigning timing to the scenes & shots (e.g. skateboarding scene should start with the chorus). After dividing the work (room scene for A

I decided to team up with a student from another section for the assignment and scraped the previous idea and storyboard I had. He had contacted a Russian illustrator whose work is amazing, and that we will base our animation on. These are the key illustrations that will set the tone for the animation. The story is inspired a song by (also) a Russian band, Bicycles for Afghanistan. It is about romantic nostalgia & longing. I also illustrated some key scenes in the storyboard

As it's slowly but surely nearing the final weeks of the semester, I am trying to tie my assignments and works to a common theme: consumption & obsession over pop culture. This week I created a storyboard draft for the story I want to animate, as well as how the protagonist would look like. I was inspired by Neo, the final villain in the Japanese manga Toriko. In the manga, Neo devours everything it sets its eyes on, be it livestock or planetary bodies. Every time he eats, hi

This week's assignment is stop motion, and I teamed up with Zahra & Hui Yi. In our first meeting, we agreed to creating a puppetry-piece using LED bulb and components we have for PComp. The story was about how the components came to life when no one was looking. Hui Yi went to sketch the storyboard, and I prepped the materials we would need to film. In our next meeting, we started filming. This is a list of equipments/props we had: White background thingy we found on the floo