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Sound Ideas

1. heartbeat

2. ringing in ears

3. Caller yelling

4. team grunting

5. drums

6. counting/calls

7.waves/water

8. paddles

9. breathing

TO BE CONTINUED

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expression sheets for my main baes

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concept art dump!

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The boats, oars, and unfinished drums :D all toon-shaded in maya

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VR headset

I haven't used one in a while and I just wanna get my thoughts down before I forget the feeling. Got to use this in Immersive Design class. It was pretty mind blowing and I got really excited thinking about getting to do something like this for my own project. I vaguely heard people through the headphones in the class and it was really strange. Everyone felt really far away and I felt pretty alone despite in my head KNOWING that I was sitting in a classroom with 20 other people. I'm really excited to implement this tool in my work.

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working on the design for the dragon boat drums

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Thesis Blog

So this is where I’ll be posting updates for my senior year thesis animation project!

I’m not 100% sure what exactly I’m doing, but it’s looking like I’m gonna stick with this dragon boat project I pitched to Maks and Christine. The idea started out with just an animation of a dragon boat race and it developed into the feeling of a race rather than the actual race.

I wanted to start it with a quickening heartbeat; white against a black background. It would then fade to various shots of people performing their pre-race rituals: braiding hair, drinking preworkout, taping up their paddle, etc. And then I had this thought that I could have the perspective switch to first person and it’d show the character stepping into the boat and sitting down. There would be the sound of yelling and cheering and just all the noises you hear when you’re at a race. The coast would fade into whiteness and the only thing surrounding the character would be the boat and their team. Everything else would be white. As the race begins, sound activates the visual of whatever is making the sound. For example, the other team’s drum would only appear with the sound of it. 

And then I realized I could make the whole thing first person POV and even maybe put it into Virtual Reality. 

The beginning would be the same, a pulse, rituals. I thought it’d be cool to be able to look around and be surrounded by the whole team doing their thing before a race. I want it to be like every time you watch it you see a different ritual you didn’t notice before. 

The same idea for sound applies to the VR idea. The biggest issue I was having was how to make a cinematic VR film work. It’s linear, unlike a video game, and requires the viewer to be along for the ride within the story and not be taken out of it because, well, they’re a bit restricted.

The sound would be the trigger, if you will. Each sound would be the loudest thing in the film and that would, hopefully, call the attention of the viewer. If you hear the other boat’s drum, you’d hopefully look over to where the sound is coming from to see it. And once it’s done, it’ll fade back into white.

This idea came mainly from one of the instructions my dragon boat coaches and captain told me: focus in the boat. Because looking outside and watching the other boats ruins your concentration and ruins YOUR timing, technique, etc., which could cost your team the race. I wanted everything outside of the boat to be white to emphasize that. I want the viewer to only really be able to look inside their own boat, except for when a sound comes from a different boat. Maybe even when a sound happens, the coach outside the boat could yell “Bench 5 left! focus in!” or something like that. I really want it to feel like a racing experience.       

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3D Final Demo Reel 2016

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My final 3D animation reel for CTAN 202