Julie Zheng
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Animation project for Costume & Animation class
This project was created during a collaborative course between costume design students and animation students.
I collaborated with a costume design student on this project. We each designed a character. The costume designer constructed two half-scale physical costume models for both characters, which I used as references to animate them.
The project is set in 2044 California and centers on the visual identity of an AI-controlled world and a resistance figure. We all came up with different visual presentations based on the prompt. In my design, an AI created to fight wildfires controls water resources for its own cooling, leaving people in constant thirst and warming the oceans, where large numbers of jellyfish die. The resistance adopts jellyfish imagery as disguise and protest.
My looped animation above shows my interpretation of the resistance character throwing dead jellyfish in a dream core atmosphere.
Below are my character design drawings, along with the half-scale physical costume models created by the costume design student.
Constructed by Niyati
Constructed by Niyati
In addition to my own character, I also animated a character designed by the costume design student. The character design below was created by Niyati, and I developed the animation based on her design.
Constructed by Niyati