04/01/2024

This week I've been figuring out how to map out my parallax animations. I added a tulip parallax, but I'm not sure how I feel about the marble being blurry in the beginning of the shot.

I also am not sure why the grain is not rendering all the way, so I will be spending this next week polishing up my scenes and hopefully nearing the finish line for the animation!

I met with accountability groups this week, and some of the feedback I received was to research on plants that represent warmth, and to use those plants as props for my physical installation.

Based on this feedback, I did some research this week on flowers; I wanted to dive into the meanings behind certain types of flowers, which to my surprise, there were a couple of flowers that represented feelings of ingratitude. However, I wanted to use the flowers that represent warmth and gratitude into my physical installation.

03/25/2024

This week I iterated further on my animation. The animation just needs the element of plants and further animation of the final scene.

I struggled with making the glow lines look nice, so I will work on polishing that the following week.

03/18/2024

This week I went through multiple ideas of my physical installation with my animation. I had ideas on a marble tower or making the flowers a button to play the video, and I played around with the idea of LED lights in the space. After learning how to use my Arduino kit, I created a circuit that allows the LED to light up based on the surrounding light, so I drew out an idea for how I can make it work without showing the circuit:

Here is how my circuit works currently with the lights on and off: