This week, I began developing both the technical and conceptual direction of my project, focusing on how to represent intimacy and memory through an object without showing a human presence. On the technical side, I experimented with colliders and soft-body physics to simulate the compression of a hug. Initially, I applied soft-body properties to a… Continue reading WEEK 17
WEEK 17
This was one of the most productive weeks since I began the thesis. After a prolonged period of uncertainty, I finalised my corpus: four case studies selected not by preference, but by useful contrast. This shift in approach — thinking relationally rather than individually — was key to moving forward. The first pair consists of… Continue reading WEEK 17
WEEK 16
This week, I refined the direction of my Final Major Project (FMP), which explores how a single object—a handkerchief—can function as the core narrative and visual driver of a film. The project centres on transformation, materiality, and memory, using the fabric as a device to generate environments and guide the viewer through a constructed world.… Continue reading WEEK 16
WEEK 16
This week, I continued refining the project’s narrative structure by roughly sketching and developing the three key scenes with the essential objects that form the teddy bear’s journey through time. These sketches allowed me to explore the visual progression of the story, the emotional tone of each environment, and the transitions between the bear’s different… Continue reading WEEK 16
WEEK 16
This was one of the most productive weeks since I began the thesis. After a prolonged period of uncertainty, I finalised my corpus: four case studies selected not by preference, but by useful contrast. This shift in approach — thinking relationally rather than individually — was key to moving forward. The first pair consists of… Continue reading WEEK 16
WEEK 15
This week, we received feedback exclusively through SyncSketch, as we had an AI workshop instead of a regular session. For the spline locomotion for the showreel, Marianna pointed out several areas that still need refinement. She noted that the scapulas are working better, which suggests some improvement from previous iterations. However, there are still issues… Continue reading WEEK 15
WEEK 15
This week, I worked on Serra’s research material to study, and this is where the project became much more conceptually deep. The research transformed it from just an emotional aesthetic piece into a coherent investigation of objects and memory. Here’s what I was given and what I took from each piece: THING THEORY The key… Continue reading WEEK 15
WEEK 15
This week, I had a tutorial on my thesis topic, focusing on motion graphics. I explained that my initial idea was quite broad, so we worked to refine it to achieve a clearer, more academically grounded focus. Based on their feedback, I began to discard the term “branding” because it might not fully align with… Continue reading WEEK 15
WEEK 14
This week, Ting and I agreed that my dialogue assignment was looking good overall, which made me feel more confident about the exercise and showed me that I am beginning to understand how to balance technical correction with performance. For the final polish before submission, I still need to make a few small tweaks, especially… Continue reading WEEK 14
WEEK 14
After talking to Serra last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about a major decision that fundamentally changed the direction of my project. At first, the film implied visible human presence: arms, hands, and and people interacting with the teddy bear. I wanted to show someone holding or hugging it. But the more I thought… Continue reading WEEK 14