Final Major Project
Finally, I have submitted my FMP! This project mainly focus on rendering an atmosphere to present my own imagination. It quite matched with my reference in brainstorming stage.
I replaced the windows with blurry transparent one, which matched with the mist weather. To contradict the color of the bluish midnight, I finally decide to utilise warmish yellow orange for the main neon lighting and supportive street light.
I wish I could have more time to explore different angles and lighting. And that is interesting that people provided feedback to me that this work reminded them the PS4 game Stray, Cyberpunk, or even the famous painting, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. That’s inspiring to hear from all kinds of points of view from others.
I didn’t render the props layer on the ground in the final version output, as it caused some flickering in video that I cannot fixed in my final stage of submission.
Term 04 – Self Reflection
Even I understand that this project in term 04 is quite important for us to present our skills in near future job seeking. Compare to what I want myself continue in my career path, I would like to try out something in my own imagination. In my previous experience, I was a motion graphic designer in Hong Kong. And of course I would love to continue to work in this profession. However, my goal to achieve a master degree here, is to explore more possibilities. Instead of just focusing on motion, it is a precious chance for me to try something I am not familiar about.
Creating a scene design is not my type of work I used to work on, but sometimes when I browsed others artwork, I always wonder how did they do that. Therefore, in term04, I did not hone my motion skills, and just try to push my own boundary.
After my graduation, I would love to seek for job opportunity in motion design industry, but I still satisfied for the fruitful result in my whole master degree programme. I believe it is crucial for designers to be a T-shape person which means their skills involved board knowledge, but at the same time they specialise deeply in one profession.