The goal of Phytosophy is to present the topic of urban foraging in a digestible manner to an audience totally unfamiliar with the concept while also being a source of information useful for anyone interested in foraging. The goal isn’t to convince every person to go out and start looking for edible plants, it’s to… Continue reading Research: conceptual

I decided to research multiple sad albums and songs in hopes of figuring out the kind of vibe that I want to go for. I stumbled across a lot of great work from the likes of artists such as Lil Peep, xxxtentacion, Mac Miller, Ariana Grande, Drake, Lewis Capaldi, Tyler, The Creator, and more. I… Continue reading Rashid’s Research Update #3

This week I chose to go back to focusing on the creative aspect of creating a visual novel, mainly the visuals part. Since I don’t have a tablet I went through various YouTube tutorials on cleaning hand-drawn sketches and line work in Photoshop. From what I gathered, it seems that the most common ways of… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #3

This week, I mostly just talked to people about what my thesis project is on (pitch practice? !) and continued looking at different home designs I would like. All of the people I talked to from different backgrounds such as Political Science, Interactive Multimedia, Marketing, Finance, English, Computer Science, and Computer and Electrical Engineering they… Continue reading Jamie’s Research Update #3

One of the reasons sometimes cited for why Web Accessibility is a necessary and useful thing is that it makes websites more usable for everyone. This week, I finally found two studies that support this argument. A 2016 study by Sven Schmutz et al. (link) had 61 participants without disabilities use three different versions of… Continue reading Kiernan’s Research Update 3

This week I mainly finished the story for the demo portion and continued to work on the animatic I have planned to put at the front of my videogame. Still a bunch more frames to go but hoping to get as much as I can done by the time the Fall show pops up. I… Continue reading Emma’s Research Update #3

For this week’s research, I looked at various forms of documentaries and narrative techniques used in. I found a LinkedIn Learning course called “Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling” and learned about the history of the genre and the main philosophy behind it. One of the facts that stood out to me was that in most… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update 3

This week I researched the different ways I could create my site. I researched building a website from scratch using a program such as Adobe Dreamweaver Also I researched using WordPress Then I looked into the website builders such as Wix and SquareSpace In the end I came to the conclusion I will need to… Continue reading Pete’s Research Update #3

This week I did not do as much work as I initially planned for. I ended up picking up several shifts at my job and because of that, the research I had done was much less than the previous two weeks. However, I still managed to do some digging on the album/LP format and the… Continue reading Alex’s Research Update 3

This past week my research efforts have been focused on preparations for animation work later this semester. I plan to do both 3D and 2D animations so I have been researching the best way to do 2D animation that aligns well with my skills. I have been studying the techniques involved in 2D animation via… Continue reading Marcus Moore Research Update #3