The intent was to play with the idea of seeing the artist in their work. The subject of the photograph is someone photographing me. In the reflection of their lens I can be seen taking the photograph that became the piece.
Toby
A collection of three pictures that tell the story of a dog waking up and suddenly being alone. I arranged the images into panels with a manga influence. My goal was to take advantage of the way we anthropomorphize animals. I left all of the bubbles blank because we project thoughts and feelings onto animals, when we interpret their actions. Similar to Jim Davis’ Garfield, I used thought bubbles because we can't actually understand animals. All of Garfield's dialogue are actually the thoughts of John. I left the bubbles blank so the audience can apply their own thoughts.
20 Shades of Cabbage
2018, Acrylic on Bristol board, 12”12”in
Transparent Answer
2018, Charcoal drawing, 18”x20”in
Ankylocados
2019 Concrete Multiple Sculpture, Exhibited in Gallery V, Art Building, Department of Art and Art History, San Jose State University.
By combining the avocado with the ankylosaurus the piece highlights the similarities between the two organisms. Ankylosauruses died out due to global warming; today, avocados are currently threatened by drying soil, and wildfires.
Cuddle with Coils
2019. Steel wire Sculpture, Exhibited in SJSU display case #D3 Art Building, Department of Art and Art History, San Jose State University.
This piece is a reinterpretation of a stuffed toy in steel wire. The wire industrial wire juxtaposes its form and conveys wanting what you can't have.
MEGU WAVE
2017 Wallpaper project
Avatars of Adventure
This is a digital painting of three of my original characters that I played as over three different Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. My goal was to add dimension and flow to my characters’ poses. I was influenced by the process of artist Hirohiko Araki who draws his characters with poses based on Greek/Roman sculpture.
Daily Hell 2018 Banner
This piece was meant to be a banner for a Facebook group I created during my first semester at SJSU. The group revolves around a type of post called a "daily", you choose a subject that makes you happy and post it every day, with a summary of how your day went. The group became a platform for my art. Every month I make collages based on 5 subjects the community votes for, and dedicate them to one member. This banner incorporates elements of glitch art. Using audacity I embedded audio of the chosen member singing into the image. A general theme of the banners is compositing member avatars on to images from real life. It’s meant to signify how the online friendships made in the group are just as valid as real ones.
Video
Art 105 2019 San Jose housing crisis documentary (clip)
My contribution to the Art 105 2019 San Jose housing crisis documentary. It was featured in the Art 105 exhibition at the SJSU Gallery 5, in 2019.
This is a brief interview with a student about the struggles of commuting. He travels by public transportation 2-4 hours per day to attend school.
Cache These Hands
The intention behind the film was to romanticize the actions of the hands when playing fighting games. The video’s title “Cache These Hands” is a play on words using cache to reference reading and writing memory in computers along with the slang term for the act of fighting. This is meant to show the players are acting from and writing to their own muscle memory while trying to pull off complex movements in the games.
How to show people your art
an abstract comedic animation detailing the humility face by an artist when prompted to share their work. it compiles animations of digital illustrations I've produced in the past
Stay Hydrated
abstract comedic animation about a post apocalypse where liquids are valued
Net Art (click to interact)
Internet browsing simulator
my project is about the process of browsing the internet. This project recreates the interface of multiple popular websites and simulates web browsing when bombarded by ads. Theatrification comes into play when attempting to close ads. The ads plea for their lives, guilt you, or reveal their facade and threaten you. The act of closing them is dramatically killing them, with the sound of a knife and scream. The pages flow together as a nonlinear narative where your interactions will decide which page you see next. The narrative ends when an ad tricks you into downloading ad blocker software that's actually ransomware that locks you out of continuing. In terms of visual treatment this is a stylized skeuomorphism that parodies recognizable websites. see code (main) see code (scenes)
Pokemon Data Mapping
I recreated bitmaps of the legendary pokemon sprites from pokemon diamond and pearl using data arrays. One array made from number data and another made from string data. I then translated and remapped the data to their "shiny" variants. click to transform the shinies into text! see code
Nat 20
This piece was inspired by the artist Nick Briz and made using his online tools. It is based on a Dungeons and Dragons campaign where my party jumped into a bag of holding. It is supposed to represent what it’s like exploring and getting lost in an infinite space. Inhabiting the space are rotating wireframe icosahedrons that represent the 20 sided dice that are used to determine most of the outcomes when playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Flappy Run
The goal of this piece was to create something simple and interactive in javascript. It is a stripped down version of the game Flappy Bird where the bird can no longer fly. The game has been converted into and infinite runner similar to the no internet connection dinosaur game on google chrome.
Fish Clock
This is an abstraction of a clock where I use fish to tell the time. Number of fish is the hour, the intensity of fish swimming is minutes, and the movement of the waves show seconds. Changes in Am and Pm are marked by the water's color. see code
3D Model
Personalized Madcatz TE2+
With this I wanted to recreate a complex object that I’m familiar with in Maya. It is a Madcatz TE2+ that is personalized for when I participate in game tournaments. I use the fight stick very often so I wanted to map it out with my hands. I wanted to make use of specular and bump maps to detail the texture of the different plastics and acrylics of the product.
Virtual_Life_Form_Observation
Virtual avatars are our delegates for online action. At their current stage they are hollow shells that await our control. As technology continues to progress towards automating every aspect of life, our avatars will soon take over our identity. With future Ai we will create simulations of ourselves. This is early footage of the incubation of my avatar. Seeded with playful action we can observe the Ai learning what it means to think independently.
Ball Rehersal
The scene depicts a 3D ball that attempts to learn from its 2D predecessor. This piece is a digital painting that seeks to deconstruct animation and consider what it means for a piece to move. The composition is inspired by the paintings of 3D still lifes created by Kristoff Zetterstrand. This piece is shot at 12 frames per second to refer to the frame rate of traditional hand drawn animation. Hand drawn is organic, it is imperfect, and at its soul is the hand of the animator. Computer generated animation seeks to mimic the organic, it is perfect, and artificial from its inception. Today cgi threatens to replace hand drawn animation in media. Lurching out from the darkness is a sinister icon of 3D animation.
Eurythenes Plasticus Fossil
3D Printed Object, 3x5x2 in, pictured is a rendered image of the 3D mesh for print. This piece’s life began while researching articles related to additivism and posthumanism. It is inspired by Eurythenes Plasticus which was a new species of crustacean whose discovery was published the week this piece’s inception. The organism lives in the virgin landscape of the Mariana trench thought to be untouched by humanity. Unfortunately however this animal’s name is derived from the type of microplastic pollution found throughout its body. Plastic is a poison created by man that will remain on earth long after our departure. The bodies of future organisms will continue to contain plastic and it will be left behind in their fossilized corpses. The file to print this piece will be distributed online for free. I want as many prints of this to be made for future paleontologists to find. I want it to be used to date future fossils and rock layers to mark the Anthropocene.
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Can Of Moe
I turned a simple cylinder into a complex can. This was an exercize in planar mapping for texture,bump, and specular. The goal was to create and market a fictional brand/product inspired by 2000's era anime. It was also an exercize in lighting and rendering in Maya's classic redering engine.
