{"id":42,"date":"2021-08-03T02:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2022-05-16T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:09:09","slug":"zenith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/zenith\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Zenith Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"21 22 p7 Zenith  KellyL\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/muxPJAkfUyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Final Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my zenith, I wanted to make an original short 2D animation about a queer, cloud themed love story, which came with many challenges and victories. Being a first year senior, I had missed the first year of animation, during which students focused on learning 2D animation, and so before this project I had little to no experience with this medium. As a result, I could only utilize the skills I had learned from studying 3D animation, and I had to learn quickly on my feet for this project. Due to my lack of prior experience with this medium, I had to develop my technological literacy and self direction so that I\u2019d create something I was satisfied with, and I expanded upon my creativity and visual literacy in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1267125655&#038;color=%23edd0dd&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freestyle-academy\" title=\"Freestyle Academy\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Freestyle Academy<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freestyle-academy\/kellyl-zenith-reflection\" title=\"KellyL - Zenith Reflection\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">KellyL &#8211; Zenith Reflection<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Process Timeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-1.png 960w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photoshop interface while drawing line-art animation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-2.png 960w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-2-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Background images painted in Photoshop. Inspired by artwork in the show Steven Universe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-3.png 960w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-3-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Coloring Process for the photoshop frame animations. This one clip was 33 frames long with multiple subjects that needed coloring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith.png 960w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/zenith-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Screenshot of Premiere Pro interface. Compilation of all photoshop animations rendered into one document on top of music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, I had to adapt and work hard on many parts of this project, but it was well worth the satisfaction of seeing it finally completed. I know I put all my effort into it, and I hope the final product shows it. I\u2019ve always wanted to see more LGBTQ representation in the media, and so I think contributing my own art with meaningful representation is definitely a step in the right direction. I hope that Freestyle students, present and future, will be able to enjoy and perhaps relate to my Zenith in their own way, and I\u2019m glad I got the chance to put a part of myself into animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Zenith Project For my zenith, I wanted to make an original short 2D animation about a queer, cloud themed love story, which came with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KellyL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}