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Nargiza Usmanova

Lighting Performance

Friday, 18 October 2024

Outsiders

It is a lighting show that was staged at three different locations in Oakville (ON, Canada). The performance is fiction on the theme of Energy. In the story, the Outsiders came to Earth not as invaders but as highly intelligent creatures with a lot of knowledge to share with humans. The main point of the project: the energy is actually found inside of us. It is the foundation of human livelihood and maybe a key to solving the energy problem on Earth. To visualize the idea, the artist has designed lighting costumes using LED modules and zip-ties.

Hao Li

Animation

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Promising Ideas

Hao Li and Mengchao Wu created this animation for Unicef to explain how they've helped young people in remote areas connect to the internet, especially girls. First, the animation compares the difference in the number of boys and girls who have access to the internet in lagging regions, and the problems the inequality has brought to girls in those places. Throughout the film, Hao and Mengchao show how Unicef helped these girls access the internet and what has changed since accessing the internet.

Zi Quan Lim

Motion Graphic Design

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

134340 Music Video

134340 is a short music video and visualizes the titular song of the same title. In response to the lyrics, the video redesign dwarf planet Pluto as a white ball wanders through multiple dimensions of space. It contains simple geometric shapes modelling and keyframe animation of 30fps. The color palette consists mainly purple and blue to fit the space aesthetics of the video. The music video captures a 2D effect art style known as Cel Shading and combines animations into the 3D elements. 134340 project was entirely crafted and composed in 3D software Cinema 4D in a span of 2 months.

Zhongnan Huang

Mobile Application

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Together Better

The Together Better hopes to improve the user's play experience with friends by a mobile applications. For example, make play plans, navigate to meetings. All the things about play outdoors can be done through this app without switching back and forth between several apps. Simple and efficient content and operation mode can avoid users wasting too much time on app, so that users can spend more time with friends in real world. In visual design, the Neomorphism style was used to reduce the digital sense.

Pengfei Wang

Mobile Application

Monday, 14 October 2024

Collaborative Aid

17.5 million people die of sudden cardiac death every year. This application allows users to call people nearby rather than distant hospital for first-aid, and get guidance for accident witnesses to perform first-aid to victim before others arrive, which helps to shorten rescue time. It also encourages users who lack first-aid knowledge to get free training and help victims. To make it easier for users to start, the interaction design of this app is simple and straightforward. The design concept is based on collaborative work, which propose an efficient possibility to handle sudden death.

BAIDU MEUX

AI Digital Human Assistant

Sunday, 13 October 2024

Duxiaoxiao

Duxiaoxiao, with an appearance of digitalized human, is a new generation of AI digital assistant. Through AI technology, she possesses the thinking, expression, emotion, and learning abilities like a human being. By communicating with users, she will gradually develop different personalities and constantly understand users’ preferences. Such anthropomorphic interaction can bring a relaxing experience of acquiring structured information and knowledge and an emotional interactive companionship to users.

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Outsiders

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134340 Music Video

Together Better

Collaborative Aid

Duxiaoxiao

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