The big kids

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This was my final animation project for my Design for Media class, the requirements being very simple: just make it mostly black and white and be creative with your designs. I took it as an opportunity to take a deep dive into my emotions again, making something of it to perhaps portray it in a more tangible way. I was in a pretty bad mental state in my first term, feeling the all imposing isolation of Covid restrictions and my fears of inadequacy amongst my peers. By the end though, I was feeling quite a bit better, the quality of this project partially giving me a boost in confidence.

Drawn in Firealpaca, animated in Krita.

Rainbow Polygon Ani

Rainbow Polygon Ani

This is by far my favorite piece of digital art I’ve ever created. Ani is my main character that I use for personal drawings, so I wanted to try a different way of depicting him. The end result was a giant headshot formed from polygonal stain-glass looking panels of all sorts of pastel colors. This was originally intended to be an album cover for a song I made called “Plastic Planet,” so I did end up using it for that, but it just looks so phenomenal on its own that I think I may use it as a logo in the future. The geometry looks as though it is actually a 3D image and it only took me about 4 hours to put together in Firealpaca. I ended up getting a poster of it and hanging it in my room too.

Youtube channel intro

Animation for my YouTube channel intro

A simple animated idea I had a while back that ended up turning out very well. There are some slight inconsistencies with the line work, but it otherwise looks very smooth and fluid, making it a good loop for my intro video, where I explain what my channel is all about. I paired it to a song I created called “Fives,” which is a simple synth song I created using several 5 note patterns. Drawn and animated with Firealpaca.