Exploring Time
Deliverables: Drawings, Pixel Art, Pixel Animation, VR
Tools: After Effects, Photoshop
Year: 2023
Personal Project
This beach was my childhood escape; quiet, empty, just calming waves and passing planes overhead. It's also where my grandmother's ashes were spread when I turned one, and where my father's were spread two decades later.
The beach changed too, slowly disappearing under pollution over the years until it barely resembled what I remembered. This project is me taking the time to process all of this.
I started with pencil drawings, shifting the perspective from being in the water to staying far away in order to capture the pollution spreading across the beach.
From there I moved to pixel art, taking inspiration from the game Sea of Stars. The focus shifted towards the sun and moon, tracking the beach across different times of day.
The pixel art came to life through animation, bringing the day-night cycle into motion as the pollution aspect was retired.
A still frame from the animation became the foundation for a VR piece, placing the viewer directly on the beach, frozen in a single moment of time.
What began as pencil drawings about pollution evolved into pixel art, animation, and finally VR. Somewhere in that progression, the project stopped being about the beach, and started being about time itself.
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