Research and Innovation Blog
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.
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
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.
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.
After I gathered all my work I could find and remember, I placed it into three different skill sections: Digital, Print, and Physical work (meaning working with traditional tools rather than digital tools). I started to noticed that there was a plethora of print and digital work from all parts of my life: school, personal, and professional. I was genuine surprised of how small the amount of work I had in physical skill section. Which made me think: Is there a project where these skills can be combined? Is there a way where I can design something for each medium in a seamless fashion? What does/will that look like?
At least now I just have to find a problem that can be solved with these skills.
I decided to start mapping out projects I created as far back as my first year as a fine arts major. I decided to map it out in different categories based on the general topic. At first, I didn’t know if it would be relevant or not to the kind of work I want to do in the industry, but it still related in some way to the art I’d want to work on in the future. It definitely gave me a solid base in terms of the way I think about things from installations to paintings or drawings. Later on towards the bottom, I included the past two years as an IMM major. There aren’t many IMM related projects here, in my opinion, I took out any that I didn’t think were the best or relevant to what I would want to do in the future.
