{"id":298,"date":"2026-01-08T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2026-10-21T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:06:20","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~DariusM\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I\u2019m Darius Matulich, a student at Mountain View High School and attending Freestyle Academy<\/a>. In Freestyle, I am taking Animation, English, and Digital Media class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m very passionate about my digital creations. There is something fun about experimenting and trying new things with my work. For example, in Adobe After Effects, I sometimes explore all the effect options to create something interesting looking. Furthermore, I love creating videogames. The blend of digital art, music, programming, and game design are the perfect mix of what I would like to do later in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way that Freestyle helped me explore myself was through the Core Values Project. Using suspenseful songs (I love genres that make you feel<\/em> something), I wanted to emphasize my core values of inspiration, fun, respect, privacy, self-expression, friendship, empathy, gratitude, and creativity. Each one has a unique reason on why they represent “me”, so using the technical skills learned in Freestyle Academy, I tried to make the color, font, and even animation showcase how this applies to me. There are a few core values I would like to highlight. My first core value is inspiration, which I intentionally made glow-y as a reference to the “lightbulb moment” that I have sometimes. I especially wanted to put this core value in this video because of how the entire rest of the video plays out. When making this project, I didn’t want some text to just stay in one place, as I felt like that didn’t represent me in the slightest. So, inspired by AngelR’s Core Value video<\/a> from 2025, I decided to take a 3D approach. Some of the text effects are inspired from their video as well. The last core value, “creativity” , is saved for the end as the most important one. I deliberately made it the biggest and most colorful, but more importantly, I used a different font for each letter of that word. These fonts are actually taken from the other core values, representing how my creativity is partly built off of all of my other values in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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