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Echoes of the City 

(The Official Theme)

Echoes of the city aims to explore our relationship with the city and brings viewers through diverse narratives such as the human condition, interactions with the built environment, and movements within the city.

The art works employ a variety of techniques ranging from digital animation, generative art, as well as interactive data-driven pieces that were developed using processing, the unity game-engine and TouchDesigner.

 

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The Chinese tale evolved into the modern era, where traditional culture meets modern influence, bringing a whole new form and structure to the contemporary artistic expression and aesthetics.

Echoes of the City is inspired by the rich Chinese culture and its many traditions and beliefs. Influenced by Chinese artistic creativity, illustrated motifs overlap and interact. Like clouds they are ever changing, coming together and moving apart, symbolizing nostalgia for the long lost culture. The blend of Oriental and Occidental culture merge as one, bringing a whole new abstract form into the modern context through the use of colours, balance and harmony. It is in between the mix of these cultural influences and extremes that the art work starts dialogue about origin, differences and diversity to be appreciated by viewers of various cultural heritages.

 

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Featuring one of my classmates work where he draws people with their selected favourite object. I requested for a poster with hot bod. Thank you Toby!

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Marking the end of Pattern Art and Architecture, it was an interesting process overall. I was actually afraid when i heard that we need to play around with the after effect software as i was a complete noob in digital software. When i initially started, the process was slow, but after awhile of exploring, it was quite easy to catch up with the pace. This whole pattern class taught me something new which i never thought i will learn it. An exciting module which i will greatly miss after this semester ends. I was glad that the whole event went well and successful. Below is a video which i made to mark the end of pattern, art and architecture. Thank you Professor Ina

 

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 FUTURE WORLD: WHERE ART MEETS SCIENCE

An interesting exhibition which I visited recently and i felt that its a need to post here. Making use of graphics to interact with the people. An exhibition that made me went “WAH”.

Inspire your imagination at Future World, the new permanent exhibition at ArtScience Museum. Explore a fully immersive 1500-square-metre digital universe, where 16 spectacular art installations are brought to life and evolve in real-time through visitor presence and participation. Be amazed as this stunning interactive world responds to your behavior, and changes according to your creative input!

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Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

Walk through a field of luminous flowers that seems to go on forever. A combination of three different artworks, this stunning virtual environment is inspired by the interactions between humans and the natural world.

Depending on where you stand, the flowers either blossom before your eyes or fade away, recreating nature’s endless cycle of growth and decay. Keeping with the theme of perpetual change, the installation evolves throughout the year with the four different seasons, so no two visits will ever be the same.

 

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100 Years Sea Animation Diorama

Get a glimpse into the future wrought by climate change in this larger-than-life installation film, based on scientific data derived from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). 100 Years Sea Animation Diorama offers a unique and provocative way to reflect on the long-term environmental effects of climate change, and educate younger generations about its impact.

Watch a fascinating film that conveys the prediction of the world’s rising sea levels over a century, with 100 years condensed into a ten-minute time frame. At the film’s climax, the borders between you and the screen dissolve to create the illusion of eventually being swallowed by the rising sea.

This whole exhibition is an inspiration. Art going into technology, into the digital life.

 

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(in the making)

Final Set 2

This was the inking process explored through after effects. I created a balance between the movement of the stills and the transition from one to the next.

My ideation is to have a full closure for my overall animation, so i decided to go with the Chinese door opening and closing concept. In this video, although it looks the same as the above one, the starting and ending of this video illustrates the opening and closing of the Chinese door.

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Oriental and Occidental Culture

by melissa

 

The Chinese tale evolved into the modern era, where traditional culture meets modern influence, bringing a whole new form and structure to the contemporary artistic expression and aesthetics.

Echoes of the City is inspired by the rich Chinese culture and its many traditions and beliefs. Influenced by Chinese artistic creativity, illustrated motifs overlap and interact. Like clouds they are ever changing, coming together and moving apart, symbolizing nostalgia for the long lost culture. The blend of Oriental and Occidental culture merge as one, bringing a whole new abstract form into the modern context through the use of colours, balance and harmony. It is in between the mix of these cultural influences and extremes that the art work starts dialogue about origin, differences and diversity to be appreciated by viewers of various cultural heritages.

Stills of the various composition

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A Movement that tells a story- The infusion of modern context

*am back to being my abstract self.

Not forgetting the past context of the Chinese history, I infused the movement of the inking through photography and video. Capturing the moments with different frames of movement. 
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The experiment of Chinese inking movement. The old traditional way

I will be following up on my process by playing around with after effects. But first, planning of which object to move is important.

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Exploring of Background

I was planning to have a layout before it dives into the modern look of the Chinese element which I will be focusing on. Giving a Chinese inking effect, I explored the effect of Chinese inking through the pouring of ink onto the cardboard to make it diffuse slowly.

The process is captured below:

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THE FIRST DROP:

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Diffusion with the diluted paint (1):

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Diffusion with the diluted paint (2):

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Diffusion with the diluted paint (3):

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I will be uploading the video of the movement on the next slide.