Here is a compilation of my best/favorite work throughout the past two years.
Digital Art
Since middle school, my main focus in art has been digital painting. Here are my favorite works.
Photoshop Compositions
I have done a variety of photo composition work, starting from when I was in middle school making k-pop edits and continuing now, making more intensive and personal work. The program I used to make these is Adobe Photoshop.
Music
I play violin and I have tried composing, although I find composing really difficult. Here are my favorite compositions.
String Quartet for 3 Violins and Cello
This was my first time composing for someone other than myself. I was invited to compose something for a fundraising event for my elementary school, but because of COVID, we could not perform in person. This was my first time compiling a group performance that was recorded separately, and it was difficult. Because the other players are younger than me, I am not including the video of the performance. February to April 2020
Ode to Costco
I wrote and produced this song in Junior Year for my Explorations (Junior Final) project. It is a comedy pop song with a hint of capitalism condemnation, and I hope you find it fun. June 2020
Leafy Ride for Minecraft Noteblock
My friends and I had a really long railway between our base and the nearest village. The railway took about 50 seconds to cross so I wrote a short and sweet piece to accompany the ride. The instruments used are the noteblocks in Minecraft: placing wood planks for the bass notes and dirt blocks for the treble notes. It was fun to compose for such a limited range (only a couple of octaves for one instrument) and for such a fun reason. I also built it in Survival Mode, no cheats. I used redstone and redstone repeaters to time the music correctly and make it so that it plays when you dispense a minecart. The video is my screen recording of the game. Summer 2020
Falling Underwater
This was a test for SynthV, a software that I was planning on using for my Zenith project. At the end, I found a software closer to what I wanted, though. I used Photoshop and After Effects to create the images. January 2021
Garden of Eden
I wrote and produced this song for my Zenith (Senior Final) project. I used Piapro Studio (free trial) to program the vocaloid Hatsune Miku. This song is slightly unfinished because my free trial ran out of time. I used ZBrush, Substance painter, Maya, Photoshop, and After Effects to create the graphics. May 2021
Animation
Tomomochi
One of our projects in Junior year was to create a narrative animation. I worked with Vivian Huang and Nick Ng to create out project. My portion of the animation was from 0:27 to the 0:58.
Documentary Animation
I made this short animation (short, but it took me many hours to make) to go with audio of my mom explaining what happened to her dad during the Cultural Revolution in China.
Chef Benny Puppet
In our Junior year, our class made puppets to create stop motion animations. I’m really proud of mine.
3D Model and Animation – Poppy the Pug
To learn how to use ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Maya, we created characters which we animated. Mine is Poppy the Pug.
Here are some basic walk, run, and jump animations.
My most recent animation project was for my Zenith project, but you can see that above.