REIMAGINING THE FAMILIAR

As a filmmaker and art student, I re-imagined what was most familiar to me – the software. I originally intended to do an animated self portrait but I felt that was a little ambitious with the graphics and it was not me enough that I was having fun. I thought about what defined me and thought that was similar to creating a Sim in the Sims game. So hence, I re-imagined the little tools and windows of photoshop and created this.

Defining Appearance

When I asked my friends about how they defined my appearance they said a few things – my unkempt hair, my glasses and my obsession with flannel shirts. I decided to convey this first – through using the add content tool and re-imagining the patch tool.

Defining Personality

Secondly, I defined my personality and character. When I asked my friends what defined me as a person they mentioned my strange sense of humour and my emotional levels. I thought, well – some people are annoyed by enthusiasm, so I added this humour into this segment.

Defining Knowledge

Then I looked at myself and asked “what do I know as an art student?” and noted that I had a lot of useless knowledge – like random facts about cats (did you know cats are nocturnal?) and how to take aesthetic instagram pictures. I decided to kick it up a notch and add humour by adding everything useless I knew to the extent that even the computer questioned it.

REFLECTION

Overall, it was a fun experience doing this project – I decided I could handle this project two ways – in a conventional artistically creative way focusing on skill and craft or do it casually in an entertaining way. I picked the fun way as I felt with my restrictions, skill and time was something I could achieve and have fun doing so. No regrets to this approach as I felt this was much more fun and exciting for me.

I could have explored other capabilities of AE such as 3D camerawork, tracking, CC tools and text animation – but I felt that simplicity worked best.

To see the process, click here!

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