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Daily Create 1/27

Prompt: Me Then and Now Doing Technology

When I was a kid I would play the Nintendo wii non-stop and one of the games I had was the Beatles Wii Rock Band which was a wii game that came with a rock band set of drums, a bass, an electric guitar, and a microphone. The mechanics were mush like Guitar Hero. I think that this was the start of my love for guitar which is something I pursued from middle school to college!

Assignment Bank: colorize your world – Inverted Color Course Character

I used a simple website to invert the colors of an image of my course character. Here is the tool I used:
https://pinetools.com/invert-image-colors

I didn’t expect much out of a quick color inversion, but boy did it change the vibe of Hwei. Other than the alien-like glow that comes along with using color inversion, the emphasis on green and yellow hues is a complete overhaul of his

I’d argue that the glow on his body is actually a pretty cool visual element that can portray a transcendent being emitting light.

Here is a skin for Hwei in the original game League of Legends.

To be honest, this isn’t a great in-game skin. It’s quite lazy and it was only shipped out due to every character needing a skin upon release so that Riot Games (the company behind League) could profit from early release sales.
It feels forced to push him into a winter theme for his first skin to portray him as some sort of “ice prince”, when they could have taken this concept in a much more sophisticated manner accurate to his lore.

I feel as though my simple color inversion has produced a better idea than this lazy Disney rip-off. The light green emphasis symbolizes Hwei’s connection to organic beings and the laws of nature, which contrasts his dystopian cyborg outlook that he currently has. As an alter ego, maybe Hwei can be an individual seeking to lead the natural world, using his art to move the core emotions of every living being around him.

Doing this assignment has given me some ideas for revisions to his story, potentially highlighting the conflict between his ideologies of natural beings versus the virtually perfect AI prototypes.

Week 3 Summary

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I am proud to say that for once in my DS106 career, I did not procrastinate.

… kind of.

To my own surprise, I started this week’s slew of assignments early, doing some of the lighter work at the library with my girlfriend. Due to me starting ahead of time, I was able to finish the rest of the tasks for the week today (Friday) at 11pm. So I guess I kind of did procrastinate but at the same time I started earlier than usual so the usual repercussions of procrastination didn’t hit me as hard.

The first assignment for this was the reflection post on the videos posted on the course website pertaining to design an storytelling. I made a blog post about the topic that interested me the most; the use of color. I connected the ideas shown in the Vanity Fair video with my own studies of UI/UX development and showed the similarities and differences between the two fields.

Design Thoughts Reflection

Next was the photoblitz, which I decided to tackle inside the confines of my little cubicle study room in the public library. I had to get creative with some of the photo requirements due to the limited space and props I had available, but this was some of the most fun I’ve had with a DS106 assignment as of yet!

20 Minute Photoblitz and Reflections

The Middlebury College Demystifying AI mini course was my first introduction to AI art production. Previously, I’ve used AI in my coding and asking it for basic tasks, but I’ve never delved into the artistic side of things. I was surprised at the types of images I got back using simple prompts. One of the AI models was spot on with their generation while the other one was a huge miss.

Middlebury Assignment – Putting my Favorite Dog on the Moon

I also completed two other visual and design assignments, and I decided to make both about my course chracter, Hwei. I delved into the design aspect by inverting the colors of one of his profiles, giving him a brighter, more tuned into nature type of look. Think of it as a skin, almost. The other assignment I took was adding a text box to an image of Hwei, where I put a quote that would give more insight into his backstory.

Middlebury Assignment – Putting my Favorite Dog on the Moon

Here is my daily create roundup for the week. Not too interesting this time around, I think the Hokusai recoloring is pretty neat though.

Daily Create Roundup: Week 3

And that just about wraps it up! It was a relatively light week with creative photography and introductions to AI generation, but I thoroughly enjoyed all of the tasks this week. Next week seems to be the heavy hitter with a lot of audio stuff. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared, but I guess it’s time to jump into the world of audio head-first.