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4D Final- Harmony Jablon

“Who am I?”

I believe my video, a combination of stop motion animation and performance/video, is the perfect visualization of a self-portrait of me. I find it very difficult to pick one experience that I have had that “makes me who I am.” This video represents how every experience I’ve gone through has shaped the person I am today. But, I know there’s still so much more to experience, so many people to meet, and a lot of growing left to do. These future experiences will continue to form new versions of myself. At the same time, I often struggle with the idea of truly “knowing who you are,” because I don’t believe there’s just one fixed version of me. I’m a completely different person than I was two years ago, or even compared to who I was just a month ago. This video captures the idea that I am who I am because of every experience I’ve had, every person in my life, my physical being, and everything that exists inside my head and heart. But when someone asks me, “Who are you?” I still struggle to find the words to fully explain who I am.

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Final Film: Stress of Perfection

Madison Hurst

Stress of PerfectionDownload

Following the guidelines:

The different ways my film was able to follow the guidelines was, first, through the way I was able to incorporate stop motions scenes throughout the film. On this film I was able to use up to 5 frames per second of stop motion. Secondly, this past semester we had learned about film and how there can be obstructions on the different ways of how to make a film. An example of this, is seen in my film, Stress of Perfection, through the theme of one’s difficult strive for perfection being portrayed by the usage of different and unique individual pieces of film.

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Animated Timeline of the Universe (4D Final)

Bryce Mathews

I enjoy education when it is entertaining, whether through visual effects or interactive media. For my project, I wanted to present a narrative to the class while also challenging myself. I decided to give a timeline of the future of the universe, including researched facts, animated sprites, and interactivity via a webpage.

I began by animating my videos in Aseprite, a pixel-art creation tool with built-in animation tools. For the challenge, I asked some friends to provide some relevant obstructions to my work: I was limited to 9 videos to tell a complete story, I couldn’t use orange, green, or violet, and I was limited to a 121 by 121 canvas. On top of learning the application, I feel that these obstructions “gamified” the experience more.

Using Aseprite, I created pixel animations detailing the 9 major events in the universe, ranging from 1-3 second animations running at about 10fps.

I needed a way to present and add more context. I had taken what I had learned from Dreamweaver and created a webpage that integrated the sprites (now GIFs) I had made.

The finished product is a basic website with animated sprites and a scrollable website for reading. Some key areas for improvement are: improved website UI, or more interactive features.

How do these fufill the requirements?

Animated Narrative: The project is a complete narrative of the universe’s future, with sprite animations as visual complements to the educational material.

Game Design/Play: To introduce a challenge, I forced myself to learn Aseprite and had friends choose obstructions that would define the project’s scope. Users must also engage with the text and video to learn or entertain themselves.

Video: Each sprite is its own video that enhances the text-based storytelling.

Link to Google Drive for HTML download:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oxC7-vocP0t2yOEpSg66HCCTeoC2cwnk?usp=sharing