Wk 10/14: Some 6th Term Art Dump

Hey all! Just wanted to make a quick post and update about some of the work I have going on in my current classes. It’s nearing the end of another semester. Hang around ‘til the end for a nifty surprise!

On top of the normal workload, I’ve been prepping for my 6th Term Review under ACCD’s Ent. Design track. For those of you outside of ArtCenter, our semesters operate in a trimester ‘term’ system - what this means for me is that this is essentially my junior grade review, before I tackle the larger senior project and classes. To pass, I’ve compiled a complete body of all of the schoolwork I’ve done since re-entering ACCD in Spring of 2019 - a collection of over 400 pages, some of which isn’t even publicly shown or available on here yet! And it’s only going to be up for your viewership for a limited time. Here’s the link - if you are so inclined to scroll near-perpetually through this large library of art and design. And give me your thoughts down below in the comments if you did look through it, I need that engagement from you! :D

Take care, see you guys again soon!

Taking Flight / Dreams of Design / Designs from A Dream

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First assignment/project from Originality in Design with Shannon Jeffries last semester! I had a really strong (and emotional) start here - the goal was to pull as many cues from a dream together into a collage and visual structure to drive designing for abstract experiences with strong correlating elements. The gist of it is that images can communicate specific emotions or contexts, and that they need to be the anchors for the narrative and visuals.

The dream? It was the one my mom had under anxiety and heavy medication the night my sister passed - Vivian showed Mom the world before departing from it. Some of the images I collected to communicate certain motifs come from Vivian's own personal library of photography as well. Also, never tried doing a color script before - so that was new and interesting to wrap my head around. Reflecting on that time and working on this over a year later served to be really cathartic for me.

In other news, I’m dying here (as usual)! Worse off this term than the previous three. Sorry sorry about the lack of posts (as usual). I’ve got a lot of heavy projects due near immediately (as usual) so I’m getting right on that now! On top of the upcoming 6th term review - yikes!

Week 5 - VR Concepts Project 1

Hey all, hope you’re hanging in there! I’m gonna be sorry forever for being MIA all the time - it’s already the 5th week into this Spring term and I’m getting CRUSHED. To be honest I had originally planned on making a deep post about the wonders of exploring and using VIRTUAL REALITY weeks ago: I’ve resigned to show just one of the projects I wrapped up recently.

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Cool, more spaceships. I’ve done a few iterations of “3d models into concept painting” ships before. What’s special this time? This is the first time I tried that initial step in VR - using Gravity Sketch with the Oculus Rift. This semester I hopped onboard a recently added VR CONCEPTS class taught by Patrick Hanenberger, and as was allowed to borrow a headset from school to fulfill this ‘educational need’ of mine. I’m reworking the previous post I mentioned with more details and explanations, but the gist of it was that it was a big investment and troubleshooting quest to get my setup workable with VR.

 

These above images were grabbed from within the headset while using Gravity Sketch.

 
 

Importing the model into Blender for some lighting set up before painting.

 

I was going pretty stir crazy and demotivated with regards to schooling, especially now that we’re nearly at the year mark from when that mess began. I was desperately looking for some kind of change in environment, and thankfully VR technology has shown me a pretty unique experience so far.

Happy Lunar New Year and Happy Valentine’s everyone! You’ll hear from me again soon!