Final Project -Ying Chen

For my final project, I shot a series of videos in a Syracuse restaurant called "With Love", which aims to help refugees as well as people who need help in settling down. It's a connected program with Onondaga Community College. Students learn cooking as well as management. The menu changes every six month to a specific country's food. It has tried Pakistan and Burma.

Independent study -Ying Chen

For this assignment, I watched videos at Lynda.com and learned something about design basics in unity. Since all we learned in the class is the basic knowledge about unity, I want to get a deeper understanding of it.   The instructor Adam Crespi illustrated the design basics from five aspects: planning the level, designing the building blocks, laying out levels, adding animation to bring the world to life and implementing user interaction elements. He pushed me to think something that I’ve never thought or just ignored before. Firstly, he said...

Assignment 4: Sailing the Ocean — Create a Scene in Unity

By Ying Chen -- To create a basic scene in Unity is not hard, but to make it good is a challenge. I tried to create a ocean view, with various ships sailing, using icebergs as background. It was easy to find the galaxy sky, ocean texture, and the objects. The iceberg model is very rare, so I used the snow mountain instead. My workflow was to have a "sketch" in mind first, and then find all the related objects, finally add them to the scene. I recommend this work flow...

Assignment 2: 360 Video Pitch — How a puppy sees the world

By Ying Chen We all love pets, especially dogs. Imagining that you walk to street, and suddenly see a fluffy puppy running and jumping in front of you. What do you want to do? You want to pet them and play with them. Pets are talented to please us. That's why those pets videos got tons of views everyday on YouTube. Now we can make the audience feel even more real to shoot 360 pets videos. My plan is to shoot my 7-month-old yorkie. There are two ideas here. One...