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Sci-Fi World



For this project I wanted to try and create an eerie atmosphere that really induced the dread of the backrooms. The backrooms is a concept that originated in an internet 'creepypasta' where an individual could "glitch" into an alternate universe that resembled places with a liminal atmosphere. The idea of liminal spaces has been a concept that's been around for a long time, but they picked up in popularity after the backrooms story and lore was introduced. The end product ended up a little darker than I had intended but I hope to improve in this kind of art in the future.

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Extra Credit Project: Photobashing

For this project I wanted to try a piece of concept work for a DnD game I have with my best friend. The location was to be a castle concealed in a mountain, there were a lot of things I wanted to add but I vastly underestimated how long the mountains would take me. Watching techniques and ways to do things can only get you so far, if you are not already good at drawing backgrounds (which I am not), getting photobashed elements to look good takes a lot. This is a very amateurish attempt but I do like how it turned out. I am not super skilled with backgrounds because I get really caught up in details so I wanted to try photobashing as a way to get myself out of that. I didn’t really succeed but mostly because this is just my first time trying this. I will probably continue to work on it in my spare time and try to improve.

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Field & Fiction Audio Project



For this project I wanted to make a fan episode of the American version of the Magnus Archives. There is a canon version called the Usher Foundation, but there weren’t any archive episodes done or anything. Just loosely implied that it existed. With this in mind I decided to pick an American cryptid Mothman. I wrote down a script and had some friends look it over before recording. Unfortunately the piece is much longer than 2-5 minutes (more like 12 minutes) but I really wanted to capture the vibe of it. I didn’t have time to rewrite the story or test it prior to recording to see how long it would run, but I tried my best to nail the vibes and ominous tension of the stories. It’s very amateur but I think it came out better than I expected.I recorded the audio in audacity before transferring it over in audition and adding the effects there, I have a good microphone so I wanted to take advantage of that in my recording. I also used it to record most of my foley soundwork.

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Vector



Castle in the Sky is one of the more underrated Ghibli movies and when I saw the prompt I had immediate ideas. I tried very hard to make this more simple as I tend to get very in my head about projects and I didn’t want to take too long on it being “perfect.” Again, using illustrator is very difficult and I haven’t quite gotten the hang of it. I’ve seen the examples and how people are able to make figures with shading that look easy. For some reason, I mess things up and it is a very hard to troubleshoot program. Regardless, my main inspiration is the Ghibli film and a little bit of Deedlit from Record of Lodoss Wars. I wanted to create the image of someone looking at this floating castle maybe wondering how it would be possible to get there.

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Animation


For this project, I really wanted something that felt magical and that I could actually be proud of. The first step of that was finding a way to turn illustrations that I did in Clip Studio Paint and turning them into vectors I could work with. It was a lot of trial and error, I had to google a lot of issues to find solutions but in the end I was able to tediously transfer them to illustrator as vectors I could work with. Especially for the trees I just wanted organic looking tree shapes. Illustrator as a program is just not really conducive for objects like trees, it would take a lot more anchor points and it wouldn’t come out looking quite as organic. I’m not that skilled, I think that kind of improvement would take a few months of working with Illustrator to get used to how it works and the shortcuts for it. Regardless, I was able to get the trees into illustrator, vectorize them so that the frame looked complete. I had an inspiration board I looked to from photos from pinterest that I put onto my board using the PureRef program so that I could get a basic feel for how I wanted it to look.
I used Jonna Jinton’s kulning for some brief music to add to it that was available on YouTube to use as long as it wasn’t commercial use. The last thing I added was the text, credits, and some final touches. Altogether I quite proud of this project and I had a much easier time working in after effects. There were a lot of useful tips and tricks on YouTube to get the kind of effects that I wanted.

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Parody Trailer


For this parody trailer, I really wanted to do a horror movie trailer about dopplegangers or shape shifters. Our house has a pretty long hallway that gets really dark during the evening hours and I thought this may be the perfect choice for this project. For planning, I didn’t have a shot list or anything because primarily I wanted to shoot footage of my cat Boots, which I figured lining him up for anything was going to be difficult because he likes to run around. I didn’t want to get too attached to any kind of story board since my cat is not really an actor and I needed to be flexible with that. I got some help from my parents whom I live with and added scenes or took out scenes as needed to fit the theme and time restrictions. I’m five seconds off but I like how it turned out. Especially for working around a crunch. I used my phone to record everything and audio segments like narration or the creature noise, I recorded using my microphone and audacity.

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