CPS-Folio 1

Week 1—Observation

Link: http://magistudio.net/work/cps-week1-observation

THEME: Observation

METHOD: TVPaint, Photoshop

CONTEXT:

For the first week, I observed the environment around me and tried to find out the relationship between people and stuff around them. My question was about will they affect each other. So I took this picture, there was a green coat on the ground and the shape of it looked like a crocodile, I used TVPaint to draw on this coat. And I draw a headphone on the crocodile because I want to create some similarity between it and people. After this test, a relationship can be felt between the coat and people and we can feel the emotion in this environment. It looked like a happy environment and the crocodile felt exciting of the music.

Week 2—Tinkering As Method

Link: http://magistudio.net/work/cps-week2-tinkering-as-method

THEME: Tinkering As Method

METHOD：I used Maya to build up 3D model and used photoshop to edit rendering graph.

CONTEXT：

Before I saw some designer transform 2D interface of apps in the phone to 3D model, which created a new perspective. I felt very interesting and curious about this new kind of expression. And it was related to my studio 2 idea, I wanted to build up a 3D mini phone world. So I started to learn Maya about how to make 3D model, how to light, how to make uv and how to render. Also, I observed the interface of Instagram. The reason why I chose Instagram was that Instagram is one of the most popular apps in our daily life. It could give people resonance. For the scene, I chose the hot balloon in Turkey.

Week 3 —Found Objects

Link: http://magistudio.net/work/cps-week3-found-objects-1

THEME: Found Objects

METHOD: Photoshop, Illustrator

CONTEXT：

This week, I chose snow mountain as the object and tried to find out the way to express snow mountain and the track of snow. I used the polygon to express mountain because I want to simplify it. I used illustrator to draw the mountain and used photoshop timeline to make gif video. Snow mountain is the main environment in my studio 2 story, so this test helped me to explore the shape of snow mountain in the studio 2 program.

Week 4 — Discussions Of Place

Link:  https://vimeo.com/285700298

THEME: Discussions Of Place

METHOD：Photoshop, After effects

CONTEXT：

This week, when I came to Nestle coffee shop, I found out that the display of wall in the shop is very orderly. The wall looked like a volume of music on the phone. It gave me inspiration that to make a short animation of this wall to visualize music. There are many interesting elements in the place where we live. We could recreate these elements to make some interesting things. With the new expression in the original place, some new emotion and new experience were created. In this video, I chose the start part of Symphony of Fate. This test was helpful to my studio 2 project to explore a new expression of phone’s apps.

Week 5 —Object

Link:  http://magistudio.net/work/cps-object

THEME: Object

METHOD：Photoshop, After effects

CONTEXT：

My studio2 project is about several stories happen in a mini phone world, the phone is my main object. So in CPS I wanted to make some transformation of the phone. I tried to use a new formation to display phone.

The story of my studio2 project was about skiing. I chose skiing stuff as elements in this test. With the new order, the skiing stuff was combined to be a new phone. Actually, we use the phone to search for information in our daily life. So I wanted to try a new expression form to show a phone. Through this test, I wanted to find out what people will feel and experience when the normal stuff and materials are displayed in different ways.