Projects

Animated Music Video

For my Senior Capstone Project, I created a music video that combines live action footage and rotoscoped animation. The song is an original, called “Blue”. The song and music video are based on a true story of a time when I felt betrayed by someone I once looked up to. The animated scenes depict the joy that this person brought me in the past, using black backgrounds and sketchy lines to show the darkness and uncertainty that touches those memories when I think about them now. The linework of the animation is red, to contrast the blue aesthetic of the live action scenes interspersed throughout the video. The filmed portions of the project show my current self reminiscing about the past as I sing and dance dramatically, eventually falling to my knees in despair at the thought of the happy memories I lost.

Made using Procreate Dreams and Toonsquid for the rotoscoping and Finalcut Pro to compile the footage.

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Although I only have part of the video animated, I created a storyboard for the entire project. This is the overall idea for the finished product, but some aspects of this storyboard will change as I see the footage coming together and figure out what works best in terms of pacing.

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Animations that I made for the video. Only the breaking heart animation is in the snippet but I plan to add the other ones in the finished video, likely popping up around the edges of the live action footage to add to the feeling of chaos and darkness that is being conveyed.

Some character design sketches for the villain of the music video. This character takes on two different forms: a human form and a demon form. My initial design for the human form was more similar to the demon form, but I decided to redesign the character to be a young man who betrays no hint of what he will turn into, in order to give the viewer more of a surprise when the transformation takes place.

(note: find more sketches in my sketchbooks)

Before starting the animation process, I did some stylistic experimentation. I knew I wanted a loose and scribbly aesthetic, but I didn't want to sacrifice clarity or make the animation look too choppy. I initially explored a geometric style, with the image made up entirely of straight lines, but I scrapped the idea because it wasn't giving me the messiness that I wanted. I eventually figured out a process to acheive the look I was going for: trace each frame of the footage neatly at first, then go over the neat sketch with fast, back-and-forth strokes.

For the backgrounds, I hastily traced or drew a scene in white. Some of these backgrounds moved as the camera angle changed the perspective but for those that remained still, I traced the same scene several times, each iteration slightly different than the last. I then looped the sequence of scenes to make the background appear less static.

Friends Fur-Ever

For my Web Design final, I designed and coded a prototype for the website of a fictional animal shelter. Above and to the left and right are my original ideas for the webpage, designed in Figma. Below are the simplified versions of these pages that I coded using HTML and CSS.

Half Alive Rebrand

For my Senior year Graphic Design class, I designed a poster, a website landing page, and a motion graphic to advertise a fictional tour for the band Half Alive. I came up with my own original graphics and stylistic choices, independent from what the band's real brand looks like, while still conveying the vibe and ethos of the band and their newest concept album, Persona.

Promotional Assets for Original Music

In addition to art, I write, sing, produce, and release original music. In 2021, I released an EP on streaming platforms called "she hoped the light of the moon would consume her own bishop. year by year, space and other, more distant knowledge of the present created a hymn of praise to the decade of his error". I do all the graphic design involved in the promotion of my musical releases, including designing my own album covers, posters, social media profile pictures and graphics, lyric booklets, and business cards, as well as a website (https://sites.google.com/view/jennawolf/home)

Front and back covers of the lyric booklet for my EP, the front cover is also the album cover I used on streaming platforms. The front cover is a digitally edited version of a mixed-media piece (left) that I created by carving through the pages of a book and painting it

Spreads from a lyric booklet that I included with CDs of my EP. Next to each spread is a variation on that spread's design that I created to print out as posters that I hung around Boston and New York City. All designs were done in Ibispaint and the lyric booklet was put together using Adobe Indesign.

Poster advertising the remastered version of "Totality", the first song on the EP. I hung these around my college campus.

Front and back of a card I made to hand out to people who might want to know about my music.

Had Me At Hello

Cover art for an original single I released on streaming platforms in 2022, made using Photoshop. All photo assets in this image were taken by me on a phone camera.

Mythical Creature

For my Character Design class, I created a design for a mythical creature. I chose a phoenix that takes the form of a peacock. I started with a model sheet and a turnaround to show the character from different angles and in various poses. Then I experimented with several color palettes. Finally, I created three rendered scenes of this character, showing her transformation from her ash form to her more powerful fire form. All drawings were done in Procreate.

Icy Tour Poster Designs

My six submissions for a contest to design a poster for Twenty One Pilots' Icy Tour, hosted by Creative Allies in 2022. All drawn and edited with Ibispaint.

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