Walking around the campus of NYU Abu Dhabi, you can see cats everywhere on campus. Being a fervent cat lover and also the owner of three cats, I am always wondering how our relationships will change with them if they are existing in a different form. Inspired by Indonesian artist Fransdita Muafidin, I started to imagine what if cats are 50 times bigger than their current sizes. What will it be like to have a ‘street’ cat actually walking on the Street?


In this Project, I used several different assets to build a small city by the mountain. I also found an asset that has the model of an orange cat, so I enlarged it 50 times and put it in the middle of the fictional road I built. After that, I put a car in front of the cat and tried to take a U-turn to avoid bumping into this gigantic animal. It is very exciting to see that I constructed the city exactly as I thought it was going to look.


There are many things that are very challenging to a complete beginner like me. During the process of designing, I had a hard time changing the texture of the terrain, as I do not know how to design it to make it look more realistic. After several failed attempts, I finally decided to use plain green as the base colour of my terrain, which might make it less realistic. At the same time, it was very challenging to find the right assets that match each other well. I found a lot of good assets in the store but a lot of them have different styles, so I ended up using the assets from the different works of the same artist. Because of that, I am wondering if there are anyways I can find assets that fit with each other in a more efficient way.


In the classes, I really want to learn how to make animations and build the terrain to make it more pragmatic. By learning those things, I can make the scenario more vivid and realistic.