Author Archives: Ethan Crawford

Puppy Coloring

I decided to make my third assignment something more relaxing to help destress from this week. I started off this coloring page by tapping the blocks in sort of a rush but finished on a much calmer note. I picked to color in a picture of a dog because dogs always have always helped lift my mood whenever I’m having an off day or simply just need to distract my mind with something else with something that’s playful and goofy.

The way that this app is coloring book app is designed makes me think that it is completely generated by AI. I’m curious about what other AI generated apps in the realm of creativity and mindfulness there are or can be invented to help relax people in a healthy way.

Neon Nexus Destination Poster

 

 

This is a Destination Poster I designed for a dystopian cyberpunk city called Neon Nexus. My favorite thing about creating this poster was the idea I had about creating a future Blendr rendered animation of a dystopian city similar to this. Although I took the background image from an account on Pinterest, I added elements such as the flying car, an interdimensional portal, a robocop, and my personal favorite, a robodog. I feel like artificial pets aren’t brought up enough when it comes to futuristic living, so I felt that it was important to incorporate robodog into this poster to spark some more conversation about the topic. This poster reminds me of something I would see in a PlayStation commercial or on a video game case when people still bought physical discs instead of downloading them like they do today.

While creating this dystopian destination poster, I couldn’t help but imagine the kind of ads and commercials we will start to see when new cities are built around advanced technology. Creating an animated advertisement for a dystopian city of some kind using a software like Blendr would definitely help me develop and refine my skills and creativity before creating a whole city.

Blade Runner 2047 GIF

This GIF is from a scene in Blade Runner where Officer K’s AI girlfriend Joi overlaps her image onto a real woman in order to simulate a physically sensual moment between the two. This scene highlights Officer K’s deep desire for love and connection through other robots due to his hidden nature of being a robot himself with a limited capacity to connect with other humans. This GIF is a literal representation of blurred lines between reality and fantasy.

This scene in Blade Runner also speaks to the concept of artificial love and the potential future of romantic relationships in a world where AI becomes so advanced that it is able to simulate human-like interactions and develop emotional connections with users who start to fall out of reality and crave something new.  This movie falls under the realm of “Cyberpunk” where the plot explores elements of futuristic technology, societal decay, crime, and power-hungry corporations.