YONG ZHEN XING (0359473)

30.6.2025 - 13.7.2025 || Week 11 - 12 Yong Zhen Xing || 0359473 Environment Design || Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 2 : Interior and Set Design Contents 1. Lectures   (Links to the Exercises Page) 2. Instructions 3. Interior and Set Design      Final Outcome 4. Reflection Instructions Interior and Set Design For project 2, we are now to develop our interior design that is following the style of our project 1.The main focus on this project is that the interior should showcase the existence of its inhabitants. Following the same workflow from my project 1, I first looked and study many different references that are fantasy themed. I also looked into real life medieval interiors.   fig 1.1, Moodboard 1 - Fantasy Interior (25/6/2025) fig 1.2, Moodboard 2 - Real Life Medieval Interior References (25/6/2025) The showcase the floorplan and layout easier, I drew it in a 3D floorplan form. Before even drawing any furnit...

14.7.2025 - 3.8.2025 || Week 13 - Week 15 Yong Zhen Xing || 0359473 Game Art || Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Final Project : Environment Concept Built from Assets  Contents 1. Lectures (Links to the Exercises Page) 2. Instructions 3.  Environment Concept Built from Assets      Final Outcome 4. Reflection Instructions Back to Top  ↑ Environment Concept Built from Assets  As for my final project, I needed to further refine my model as well as make it as realistic as I can to match my game's style. After receiving feedback from Mr.Kannan I needed to make the control panel/dock less flat and add a bit more character to it. So I went and readjusted the props seeing what kind of design I could come up with. With how sharp the edges of my control panel is, I decided to smooth out most of the hard edges and add some design treatment to parts of structure as well. As for the hero item prop, I did made some changes even i...

30.6.2025 - 13.7.2025 || Week 11 - Week 12 Yong Zhen Xing || 0359473 Game Art || Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 2 : Asset Pack for Game World Contents 1. Lectures (Links to the Exercises Page) 2. Instructions 3.  Asset Pack for Game World      Final Outcome 4. Reflection Instructions Back to Top  ↑ Asset Pack for Game World In project 2, we now needed to take our assets from project 1, refine it and the model it using blender. These props will then be used to construct an environment in the final project. After a feedback session with Mr.Kannan, he told me to focus on developing the hero prop as well as the control panel/dock for my project 2 and final project. And so I did just that. While I like how simple my hero prop and control panel looked in project 1, it can certainly be refined further so I worked on that. I looked into more references that better matches what I am aiming for and then begin sketching. fig 1...

14.7.2025 - 3.8.2025 || Week 13 - Week 15 Yong Zhen Xing || 0359473 Digital Matte Painting || Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Final Project : Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) Contents 1. Lectures  (Links to the Exercises Page) 2. Instructions 3. Thematic Matte Painting (VFX)     Final Outcome 4. Reflection Instructions Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) As for our final project, we needed to take our Project 2's Invisible Set Extension and create what is known as a 2.5 matte painting where it mixes 3D geometry with 2D painting. We are to essentially take our project 2's work and animate in After Effects it to create depth. Images below show the process of my after effects edit. First I added a simple camera zooming out. My idea was to have it zoomed in at the start and then slowly zooming out as it reveals the entire city. fig 1.1, Adding Camera Zoom (28/7/2025) Then I started adding simple movements such as for the cloud, the sunrays and “Zal...