My Musical Score

My musical score. This was a collage formed primarily from my interests. The original concept began with reading a score like a stage from a Mario game, with various landscapes and objects influencing the instrument player to act accordingly. There is no "intended" way to play... rather, the whole piece was constructed rather liberally. As long as one makes note of the structure of the work, then any way of playing it can be considered "correct".

My Played Music Score

My partner, Shani's, music score. This score is done in the style of a written story, of which we have to translate into music by reading and interpreting how to play based on the events that occur. It was slightly difficult with my water instrument, and certainly many liberties were taken with the piece... and as a result, perhaps the result was surprising. However, the piece was played how I felt it should, and I attempted to recapture the feelings of the original work.

virtual reality

When virtual reality becomes a thing, many new opportunities for artists will open up. It's exciting to think about how interactive the future will be, and the many creative possibilities that lie in wait with it. Interactive interfaces, designs, characters are just to name a few.

influences

Studio Ghibli has wonderful animations accompanied by epic stories that are very heartwarming. Most of the animations are hand drawn and the effort is well rewarded when watching their movies.

Living in a world where people are constantly surrounded by technology, computers play an important role in everyone's lives. If you're a gamer like me, graphics, overall specs, and computer knowledge play a huge role in what games you can play.

From the artist of my favorite game series, "Disgaea". Takehito Harada does a good job creating artwork by creating a style that differentiates himself from peers by using unique proportions and color mixes. 

drawing & painting samples

As a hobby, I enjoy practicing drawing on the tablet. Although I still have a lot of room for improvement, examples of my art will be posted below:

When working with a website, we generally have to work with logos and the other things that come with businesses. Here is an example of a logo I created on the computer.

The Sixth Project

Artist Statement: While I initially wanted to create a model out of 2d reference images, it proved to be too difficult with my level of Blender knowledge. So after hours of attempting to learn how to learn to do something too advanced, I gave up and tried something simpler. As you can (probably) tell, I attempted to create a sword by manipulating meshes. While I know it's not the most appealing 3d image, this project did teach me quite a bit about grid manipulation and texture modification. While I wish I could've done more with this project, I do feel like I have a better grasp of Blender, although there are still enough things that I don't know about Blender to make my head spin. One difficulty I had with this project is that, the Blender tutorials on the Digital Media blog had different window placement and overall layout so that it was difficult to replicate results without taking several minutes to explore Blender. Whether this is because of Blender version or because of the transition from Mac to Windows, I am unsure. However, I would like the opportunity to learn more about Blender. I wish we had more time in the semester to learn about it.