My freshmen year is almost over and in about eighteen more days, I’ll be heading home to California! I’m very excited; nothing can prompt me to stay any longer in Providence. Although, Providence is a really beautiful place, it cannot beat home – and my wonderful Asian food.
The New England weather is extremely moody; it starts out beautifully bright and ends up grey and bleak the next and thundering and raining after then sunny all over again. Well, at least I get to experience the range of weathers here as opposed to back home. It’s definitely tiring – the last month (and a half) of the semester is usually dedicated towards finals. I am exhausted! Having several final projects going at the same time, due at the same time and (what do you know) at the same time I have research essays to write on top of projects that the teachers assign outside of our final projects. When you live at RISD, life goes by so fast, we might as well plan every second!
We’ve all chosen our majors and I’m sure it’s no surprise that I’m going into Illustration. I had thought for sometime to go into Industrial Design, but creating monsters and fantastical landscapes still overruled.
For my complete absence from the Internet, I have my excuse: the plethora of projects that almost overwhelms me. I created this massive tessellation (6 feet by 4 feet) for my 2D class – that I’ll post of pictures as soon as I get them from my friend, a performance piece along with a partner for my 3D class depicting a three-dimensional clock and also for the same class, a final project requiring me to pick an artist dealing in three-dimensions (architect, sculptor, even movie-makers – time is also a dimension) and recreate his/her work. I chose Steven Spielberg and his movie, The Terminal with Tom Hanks. I chose a couple scenes and shot them at the Providence Airport – I got permission from the president of the airport to shoot it there. All I’ve got to do is edit it and I’m fin!
As for the video below, it’s an animation that I created in my Design class. The process was open for interpretation so I chose to emulate traditional cel animation. This type of animation was how all our beloved cartoons of old was created, using cellulose acetate (transparencies) and drawing out every movement of the characters and whatever else needed moving on the foreground. If you want to learn more about it Wikipedia offers a wonderful, albeit bulky, history and explanation of the process.
I hope these past few months have passed by wonderfully for the rest of you! And by the way, I forgot to say that I’m going to cosplay as Sailor Pluto! I’m almost done with her costume, I just need to make the jewellery and the staff and I’m good to go. I might be going to Anime Expo – hope you guys have awesome plans for the summer!
