September 2019 – Page 2 – IMM Senior Thesis

Tyler Rodriguez – Initial Concepts

Concept 1: My idea is to create a 2D animation utilizing Motion Graphics. Motion Graphics is a medium I have always been interested in learning, but I haven’t really pursued it as far as I would like. I want to create a story that revolves around Japanese mythology with characters wearing Street Fashion clothing, as both are things that interest me. Creating a sort of blend of things I like, while also challenging myself with a medium that I’m not too experienced with could provide for an interesting project.

Concept 2: My second idea is to create an exhibit type of project that will utilize graphics and 3D printing. I want to create an experience that tells the history behind mythological characters by providing graphics of said character while also providing 3D prints of them for people to hold and see. I like the idea of interacting with a sort of exhibit and 3D printing is still very new to me so I think it would make for a challenging project.

Concept 3: My third idea is to create a custom pair of sneakers, possibly from the ground up. Fashion design is something I have an interest in, but I don’t really know the first thing about it when it comes to creating an article of clothing. While this doesn’t have anything to do with my planned career choices, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. This might be difficult, but may be a fun challenge that I can hopefully find something new to take out of.

Project Concepts – Chance Gayles

Chance Gayles

Project concepts

1.Digital manga and Marketable material

Using the skills I’ve been gaining the past year (and while in Japan) for my thesis, I will create high quality chapters of a digitally created manga (using photoshop / clip studio paint & various techniques and digital methods) along with character sheets, cover, marketable materials such as Poster (photoshop), Video Advert (adobe after effects), Merchandise, etc.

2.Digital Lookbook

A large collection of digitally generated character sheets, altered photos, and motion graphics made print-ready and marketable with the possibility of presenting a physically printed book.

3.Audio project

Creating an album along with Visual assets and video with another IMM student. This would include production, mixing, mastering, shooting, editing, and conceptualizing artwork for digital platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, etc

Senior Thesis Ideas 2019 (Christopher McDowell)

After our last class discussion, I thought a lot about what projects I was considering for thesis. Now, these may seem like a complete shot in the dark, but I believe them to be fully within my skill range. So why not give them a try or at least gather some info about the.

Project 1: Interactive Comic Story
The idea behind this comic is to create an interactive page-turning experience that provides an enriched story with impressive visuals that change and move with each turn of the page. There will be multiple paths to the endings that depend on the viewer’s decision on where they would want to go in the story. The book will consist of being roughly 15 to 20 pages long, some with additional slides for the endings.

Project 2: Animated Visual Story
The idea behind this is to introduce a new way of telling a story through well-placed imagery and conceptual art pieces all synchronized in an animated fashion using visual elements to present a well-written narrative. This idea of storytelling has been shown in numerous fashions but to the ideas I have with it will differ in many different ways. Using programs such as Unity, Photoshop, and After Effects, The goal is to create this visual style never seen before in this medium in storytelling

Project 3: 3D Rendered Character Designs
There are a number of character designs created by numerous artists in and out of the industry. This idea will be centered around creating 4 different 3d modded original characters with their own animation sets. It has always been a thought of mine to learn more about 3D modeling programs and create more human-based characters with the tools provided and create original designs with their own personalities and delve into the world of character design.

Tools For Each project

Project 1- Unity, Adobe Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint Pro
Project 2 – After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Unity
Project 3 – Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine 4

If anyone has any thoughts or ideas on smome resources that may be of help. please feel free to let me know. Thank you for reading this. best of luck to everyone 🙂

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Oct 2 – 13

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Philly Maker Faire

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Portfolio Map – Rachel Zook

When making my portfolio map, I ended up scrapping a lot of smaller projects I’ve done over the years, like my website or an animation project I’ve done in After Effects, because I was unhappy with their quality or knew I could create a better version that I could later include. I found most of my proudest work is in graphics creation, especially my personal projects like the cryptids designs, Bloodborne artwork, and pixel art animations. I think this is because I had the most motivation and excitement to do these projects. My portfolio is very solid on illustration, but lacks video production, so I may work on strengthening that area (I do have previously completed video production work, but nothing I was proud enough of to include here). I would like to highlight my creativity, which I think is covered here but I should probably show it through other mediums, like video and sound design.

Project Portfolio (So far…ish)

Hey y’all, so right now this will be a rough posting of my portfolio so far. This is most of the work that I have accomplished thoughout my life and the most interetsting to me personallly and professionally. It isn’t as complete as I would like it to be, but I think what is presented is a pretty good idea of what kind of stuff I am generally into including the introduction to my skill set. feel free to share your thoughts

Tyler Rodriguez Portfolio Map

For my portfolio map, I was a little confused and kind of stuck as to what I should put on. As I put more on, I saw that most of my stuff is graphics related, which did not surprise me at all. Graphic Design is my minor and I love doing. I think for my project I’m leaning towards doing more motion graihics based things. Its a medium that I do not have very much experience with it but it is something that I would love to work with more. I can use my skills in Graphic Design to help me as I work towards this potential idea.

Portfolio Map by Jarryd Ley

These are some of my most defining projects that i have done from IMM an and on my free time. Most of the physical and problem solving one i had practiced on and i don’t see much of a career in my trying to pursue that. So the projects that i thought were the most helpful with the skills i learned and used for them involved mostly using digital instead of physical such as wood working.So i see myself working more in the 3d realm for my thesis maybe including some physics such as as 3d printing or laser cutting.