1. Your Biography
For resume (overall bio)
Aspiring designer and artist currently studying in Nanyang Technological University, from School of Art Design and Media, specialising in Interactive Media. Passionate in 3D modelling, and using programming languages to further showcase immersive interactive design.
For website portfolio (able to showcase work with bio)
Yuki is an aspiring designer and artist interested in performative playful interaction design. With a background in game art, she has expertise in creation of 3D assets from realistic models for Virtual Reality simulations, to stylised models to enhance creation of colourful worlds. She has also ventured outside the digital screen, to create projects with the physical and explore the relationship and interaction between them. With hobbies such as music and handicrafts, she has implemented these passions into her projects and has done collaborative works with translating the performing arts to 2D/3D visuals. She aims to play with the barrier between reality and the likely whimsical, imaginative worlds created through her works.
2. Sample of work and short description
Digital 3D works
Stylised- Zen Fantasy theme and painted textures
Realism -Sci Fi theme
Physical works
Use of multiple servo motors – communication between software to hardware
Collaborative performing art work
3D visuals – dancing to traditional art
2D visuals – learning after effects to animate a software generated like documentation of the whole process , 4:26 for final
Handicraft/Prop making
Creation of weapon props and plushes
3. Your resume
4. Select a work/artist/designer that inspires you or that has made an impact and describe what you find impactful and engaging
Tokyo Disneysea Sinbad’s Storybook Voyage
This boat ride is from Tokyo’s Disneysea and it presents Sinbad’s journey through 7 rooms aka 7 points on his map shown when queuing for the ride.
I find this inspiring as how it immersive it was. From the creation of these animatronic figures, how their overall movement were so fluid as if they were really alive. With the surround environment and music, the experience was really as if you were riding the boat across the map, accompanying Sinbad on his adventures. The ride moves across the 7 points/rooms almost seamlessly along with the story.
Belle Film by Mamoru Hosada (Retell of Beauty and the Beast but METAVERSE)
This film showcased a digital fantasy world called U, metaverse-like virtual world. It shows that the creation of the person’s persona in the virtual world is based on their biometric information and the use of body sharing technology.
I find this inspiring towards the portrayal of this virtual world and how reality of the physical being and the human mess of it all is connected to it.
Mamoru has also done other works that portray the fantasy aspect into a more realism scene through an older but well-known film known as Wolf Children, which shows a single mother raising two half werewolf children, showing the interaction of harsh reality how people may react upon them.
Links:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aRYDKk
Guide to the Geography & Story of Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/belle-trailer-u-virtual-world-234024067.html
https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-review-mamoru-hosodas-belle.html