Visual Studies Animation

I can cross Adobe AfterEffects off my list of programs to learn! The program is actually a lot of fun to work with. It allows for a great deal of flexibility, as long as you have your primary footage or renderings. The idea of this assignment was to chronicle the understanding and process of reappropriation that our objects (my helmet, look below) underwent.
Here's what I did. Enjoy!

Music: Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation

Revisiting the Module

We're finally developing the form and programmatic spaces within our project, with just two weeks till the final critique. I'm going to allow my triangulated octahedron module to inform the form and structure of the spaces I create. That being said, it's going to be hard to re-appropriate it within the context of the new project, but I'm working on it. The octahedron is a really versatile, flexible and deceivingly simple shape to work with.

Studio - Final Project

So for the first phase of my final studio project of semester 1, I studied people interactions, dynamics and situations and represented them as notations. The idea being that a field of these notations can begin to reveal something about the site (Avery Fished Hall, Lincoln Centre NYC). It's a very abstract first step and we're only just getting into tectonics. Here's what I came up with...

Visual Studies 1

I got better at Rhino and Grasshopper

Animation Storyboard

This is a preliminary story board for an animation I'm making for Visual Studies. The idea for the movie is : line, layer, surface. The movie will hopefully take you through the aggregation of lines into curves into layered curves and finally into a surface.

Studio Project - Mid-Term Review Panel

Philadelphia?

First off, I apologize to my 1 follower for not blogging as often. I'm sorry I let you down. On that note, here's my next blog!...and since I'm at grad school (in architecture) at UPenn, I thought it would be fun to post my work on my blog in additon to writing about the safer sights and sounds that Philadelphia has to offer (at least in the parts I'm willing to venture out into). - I'm not joking.

I would like to add that the above drawing of a Helmet I own was done on Rhino (a 3D CAD program). At PennDesign, they assume that the incoming Master of Architecture students don't all have architecture backgrounds but they definitely assume that EVERYONE is proficient in Rhino. I learnt the program on Sunday and the assignment was due on Friday.

The line weights are incomplete.

The panel on the left is supplementary to my actual studio project (the helmet was just a visual studies exercise). See pictures below.

We 're-appropriated' paper cups to create a 'surface-form'. I worked on the project with one of my new friends, Pannisa Praneeprachachon. I love her name because it makes mine look tiny.