Student Names: Kexin Zhang and Felix Huang
Project Title: Envisioning Energy
Project Title: Envisioning Energy
Project Description:
For this project, the overarching theme that we chose to visualize was energetic, high energy, and bubbly sounds. We each chose a different song to base our animation off of, and worked mostly separately up until the point of creating the zine.
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Getting feedback from the class, people responded very well to the typographic visuals and this typeface called Cubics, which featured hexagonal letterforms. At this time, I decided on a song to base my animation on, and it’s called Firestones by Kygo. This song has a nice steady build up leading to a part of the song that is very instrumental. The next step was to think of how to visualize these sounds. I remember I watched videos of piano synthesia for movie soundtracks that I like. I thought that was an interesting way to visualize sound.
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For this project, the overarching theme that we chose to visualize was energetic, high energy, and bubbly sounds. We each chose a different song to base our animation off of, and worked mostly separately up until the point of creating the zine.
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Getting feedback from the class, people responded very well to the typographic visuals and this typeface called Cubics, which featured hexagonal letterforms. At this time, I decided on a song to base my animation on, and it’s called Firestones by Kygo. This song has a nice steady build up leading to a part of the song that is very instrumental. The next step was to think of how to visualize these sounds. I remember I watched videos of piano synthesia for movie soundtracks that I like. I thought that was an interesting way to visualize sound.
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