{"id":31,"date":"2025-08-07T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:28:22","slug":"zenith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/zenith\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Intro:<\/strong> For my ultimate and one of the last freestyle projects, AKA Zenith, I decided to make a narrative animation. I had never animated before, but I\u2019ve always loved the medium as an audience, and this zenith project seemed like the perfect opportunity. This wasn\u2019t my original idea first, as I was going to make an animation less story intensive, and was originally supposed to be original music, with animation supporting it.<br>This caused the problem that I had too many possibilities on what my theme, music, and visuals would look like. After changing, just following the storyboards I made significantly fastened the progress I made.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.16.04-PM-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7716784392869156;width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.16.04-PM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.16.04-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.16.04-PM-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.16.04-PM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Making the story: <\/strong>The main plot of my story followed a nervous lovebird matchmaker, with her coworker\u2019s support and successful matchmaking. She gains confidence, until she matches one particular couple.<br>Making the story was one of my favorite parts, I felt like the premise came spontaneously, and I got inspiration from Pixar shorts and my ideas I didn\u2019t use for my narrative short film.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2zeintith-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2zeintith-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2zeintith-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2zeintith-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2zeintith.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a collection of progress shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-9.54.25-AM-1024x795.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-9.54.25-AM-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-9.54.25-AM-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-9.54.25-AM-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-9.54.25-AM.png 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zenith-check-in-3-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zenith-check-in-3-edited.png 910w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zenith-check-in-3-edited-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zenith-check-in-3-edited-768x430.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1067\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6165-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6165-edited.jpeg 1067w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6165-edited-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6165-edited-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6165-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.39.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.39.56-PM.png 953w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.39.56-PM-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-3.39.56-PM-768x645.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a video of the final product. I used Adobe animation to create this.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/25-26-p7-Zenith-1-Fierris.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro: For my ultimate and one of the last freestyle projects, AKA Zenith, I decided to make a narrative animation. I had never animated before, but I\u2019ve always loved the medium as an audience, and this zenith project seemed like the perfect opportunity. This wasn\u2019t my original idea first, as I was going to make an animation less story intensive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~FierrisT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}