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Reframing Of Objectives: Shifting Gears (1/2)

     I had a chance to reflect on my professional artistic goals, and despite being so inspired and excited by the artists mentioned in previous blog (and Charlie Wetzel, cuz their art  r o c k s), I must change the direction of my project quite drastically. 

    First, let's go over my goals: I want to be an independent content creator, preferrably combining music and 2D art in the form of animation. Artists such as... 


Dedouze! Creating from France, he is known primarily for his amazing Blender animations. However, he is an absolutely amazing artist, too!

Worthitkids! He is another super-amazing artist that creates beautiful aural and visual experiences through Blender. 
Epoch Sonder! She is a self-taught artist who does most of these animations with an Ipad! 

One of the most amazing things about these artists is that all of them have their own super unique approaches and styles, and I believe that's due to the fact that they have full creative freedom over their content. Creating most projects entirely on their own, from start to finish... This is exactly what I would like to do. 

I see animation as one of the more influential mediums, and also highly accessible and approachable with modern technology. For the last year and a half, I wanted to get into this field. Hence why I want to shift my project into this medium. 

The foundational goal of this project would be to develop and employ skills necessary for creating a complete animation. For that to be achieved, the aspects of narrative creation and meaning would have to be simplified. Though my future projects will center on the narratives of my own, for this initial project, the goal is to gather all of the technique I need to create a full animation of my own. With this, my project will be the main part of my scholarship application for... 

Project Yellow Light!

Given that a number of past winners created animations, I feel like this is a very appropriate place to start. This project offers quite a large degree of creative freedom, and I'm excited to twist the narratives into something that's both highly marketable yet personal. And, I need to pay off my student loans- $8000 would be very, very helpful. 

This is part 1/2 for the reframing process. Next up, I plan to outline the exact timeline for the project and brainstorm 5-10 ideas for the narrative and creative approach. This will include determining limitations and borders for the project, choosing software to work in, and figuring out how I want to address the required prompt! Super excited to share those thoughts §


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  1. Jessie AronsJanuary 31, 2022 at 2:46 PM

    This is a great idea! I love animation, and am actually in a class for it now. I'm super excited to see where you go with this project.

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  2. AmBeRJanuary 31, 2022 at 11:36 PM

    The short video about safety is really good!!!! I also super enjoyed watching some short but meaningful videos! I just got a memory about a graph kind of similar to that video, I will DEFINITELY to show you when I saw you either around campus or on class!

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  3. Yui Niizeki MaeharaJanuary 31, 2022 at 11:43 PM

    I really love where you are going with this! Do you, and if so how do you plan on creating the audio and effects for this project? I am very excited to see part 2/2 for this post!

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