Connecting Annabelles narration to class, it was apparent from the start that she is a strong, determined and dedicated person. This preferred identity was noticed when she mentioned the concern for getting into university from solely her atar, but her extra curricular activities in music shined through for her to attain early entry. This set…
Listening Essay: Nancy Hugget
Engaging as an outsider witness required one to listen and acknowledge the “preferred stories and identity claims” (Carey & Russell, 2009) of Nancy Hugget (Director of an Advisory Team to the University of Wollongong) in a therapeutic conversation which unveiled the significance of personal values absently but implicitly guiding one’s life course. Values are paramount…
Guiding Myself Through The Jungle
The first response to a disruptive change in my life has always instigated feelings of uncertainty, stress and panic. So, when I experienced such a thing in my relatively new position in a relatively new job, I was more than surprised with the emotional truckload that followed. The job I applied and interviewed for was…
Unique Skillset? Where?
You know that question you will almost always get in a job interview, “What are your Strengths?” I hate that question more than anything. Or even writing a resume or cover letter, trying to sell why you should be hired, I hate that. So naturally, when being asked to talk about any unique skill/s that…
Major Work Progress
My animation has truthfully taken a difficult start. My first and foremost difficulty was comprehending perspective in cel animation. Upon consulting some academic articles, I found a particular camera technique in animation known as a pan, “Suppose that we wish to make a movie of a scene, taken by a camera rotating from left to…
Fluorescent Black TBC
Fluorescent Black was a roller coaster of ups and downs and although I couldn’t achieve the entire song as predicted, I am still overwhelmingly satisfied with seeing my vision play out before my eyes. I experimented with complex camera angles in cel animation form, which was an extremely tedious process, reasoning the half-way finish of…
Dying Elves: A Pitch Process
Dying Elves, the strategic fantastical table-top probability race game that touches the role-playing genre. Now that’s a mouthful. Dying Elves fits into the strategy and race genres as the core game loop involves strategically overcoming challenges & making decisions to collect a set of cards in order to get to a certain point on the…
Dying Elves: You or Them? Pitching it To You
Game Ideaology: A lesson about selfishness (choosing the dying elves or yourself) Dying elves is played on a grid space board where all character cards start in the middle along an x axis The aim of the game is to either save the elves or save yourself. At the top of the board is the…
Pitching Fluorescent Black
I will be doing a hand-drawn cel animation music video for the song Fluorescent Black by Sorority Noise. The video is derived from an animation I have been envisioning since I was 14 years old and I hope to bring this daydream to life and give it justice. It is an extremely symbolic journey of…
Deep Ocean Dive: An Animation
Upon reflection of my animation piece for Task 1, I believe I thoroughly addressed each criteria point to explore and investigate in Affect Effects and motion design principles. Implementation of Motion Design Principles I believe I have considered an extensive amount of motion design principles in my animation. I have utilized visual grammar exhaustively, with…
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