#senior thesis project

[ggolondrinaa]

Reminiscing on personal growth all by yourself, handsome? ;)

Ok but really if you like neat animation and original music from a feeble new artist you should check out my first music video/senior thesis project. Also stay till the end or check the description to see all of the INCREDIBLE artists & everyone else who worked on this project with me.

#original song #music video #animation #my art #original music #singer songwriter #frame by frame animation #grow into you #senior thesis project #tee hee #art #inner child #Youtube #artists on tumblr #animators on tumblr #musicians on tumblr

[bird-everyday]

106 (oh yea this also happened this week haha)

#bird #bird every day #art #crowcore #crow #bird art #e #don't know if anyone cares but it's bc im a double major *pain* that's why i had a senior project AND a thesis #but now im so so so so much closer to done #yeah

[accirax]

Mr. Showtime 2DMV Theory

The release of Mr. Showtime full and its 2DMV... oh my god. I’m back on my Tsukasa bullshit, so please allow me to talk about what I thought was the most interesting part of the 2DMV:

This part, with the jester boy on the moon with balloons. Please ignore the YouTube time bar I don’t know how to get rid of it While the entire 2DMV is gorgeous and bears rewatching one million times, it’s this part that stood out to me in conjunction with the lyrics. Specifically, the strings of the balloons stood out to me, after reading and participating in this post by @/getwonderhoyd. It discussed the symbolism of Tsukasa and the marionette strings in comparison to Mafuyu, and how their tight wind around his fingers implied the tight grasp he has on controlling his situation.

He has that same winding grasp on the balloons. But what are the balloons?

While not all of them are direct depictions of the Wonderland Sekai, many of them also are. The ones that aren’t all seem to be related to stories Tsukasa is featured in, specifically a lot of the girls’ events for some reason? The presents seem to be from On This Holy Night, I Sing; the mermaid tail from Mermaid Adoration; and the tropical climate from A Desperate Situation?! Island Panic!. The plane, I would imagine, is from their travels abroad in Popping In My Heart, and the candy clouds balloon could either also be that event or resemble the clouds in the Smile of a Dreamer cards. I don’t remember where the scary face could be from-- I would posit either a spooky Halloween face for It’s On! Wonder Halloween or the checkered pattern could imply the phantom thieves of A Gentleman Thief’s Thrilling White Day?!. 

Anyways, Tsukasa is clutching on tightly both to the sekai and his memories with his friends. Typical. But could it go deeper than that?

Again, the balloons are his memories. It’s good that he has them, considering his past history with memories. But here, we get some more interesting insight-- these memories are carrying the travelers. The travelers/stars are surely his troupemates, and Tsukasa believes he is carrying them with his memories. Sure, he’s carrying them with him through what he remembers, but as the leader, I think he believes that he’s the one carrying them forward. Not in a totally vain way, of course-- he loves his friends and thinks they’re all super talented, too. But there is one way that he specifically is undeniably carrying them... and that’s through the existence of his very own sekai.

That’s why his memories of prior events and the memories of the sekai are so combined. This other post which I adore by @/wondahoiii discusses how sekais are based off of repressed feelings. This makes the Wonderland Sekai, and the fact that it’s a neverending paradise based off of solely Tsukasa’s childhood memories, kind of terrifying.

Wonderlands x Showtime has had a lot of events recently about how much they don’t want their time as a group to end, even though it inevitably will. All four of them have lyrics here about wanting to avoid an ending, while Tsukasa is the only one shown acknowledging its arrival. But, down to the name, Wonderlands x Showtime and the Wonderland Sekai are connected. Since Tsukasa and Rui would have never made up without Kaito and Miku’s help, you could argue that Wonderlands x Showtime couldn’t exist without the Wonderland Sekai. So, in a way, when the members say they don’t want “it” to end, they could also be talking about how they don’t want the Wonderland Sekai to end.

What happens when true feelings are resolved?

If Vivid Bad Squad becomes a tight foursome without envy and insecurity and surpasses RAD Weekend, would they need the Street Sekai to practice in anymore? If Kanade really does write a song that can save Mafuyu, and all the members of Nightcord become mentally healthy, would they need advice from Miku, Meiko, or anyone else anymore? Someday, More More Jump will retire from being idols, right? Would the Stage Sekai still exist, even then?

And what about Tsukasa? If he became a mentally healthy person, one who could retain and potentially regain all of his memories, and make people like Saki smile... what would happen to the Wonderland Sekai?

There’s a certain fear in being the one-man show that fuels an entire universe.

Tsukasa will do anything to make the people he cares about smile. It’s literally the basis of the Wonderland Sekai itself. So, if the Wonderland Sekai makes Emu, Nene, and Rui smile, of course he would keep it open with all his power. Not to mention that, as reminded by the event story balloons, the Wonderlands Sekai is making his friends better people. Emu has people who unshakably care about her, Nene is overcoming her stage fright, and Rui feels understood and appreciated for the first time ever, thanks to the Virtual Singers inside the sekai. The Wonderland Sekai is making them better.

But at the same time, there’s a problem. As stated, the Wonderland Sekai consists of every happy childhood memory Tsukasa has repressed. For the Wonderland Sekai to exist, Tsukasa has to repress these memories, or else they wouldn’t be “emotions never expressed.” While I would never say that Wonderlands x Showtime was unhealthy for Tsukasa, it’s possible that, to a point, the Wonderland Sekai is. If he wants to reclaim his memories, he has to let the Wonderland Sekai go.

He has to be the one to bring about the catastrophic end.

It’s not just that Tsukasa wants to keep up a happy attitude so that no one will worry about him, or through some sense of pride at being the unshakable leader with masterful skills of pretending. It may be that Tsukasa is worried that if he shows even a crack, so will the world they’ve come to love. You know-- the one that Hasn’t Even Started Yet.

Which is why Tsukasa will never let go of those balloons. The ones that only contain memories of recent events; nothing about elementary school, or middle school, or even Saki and her heart-wrenching hospital trips. Living in the present, keeping things going, ignoring the past, is the only way to keep the Wonderland Sekai alive in his mind. Until closing time comes, Tsukasa and virtual singers like Luka will share this secret. Just like how Luka is constantly falling asleep, Tsukasa, too, will fall asleep on his own needs to ensure that he’ll keep the never-ending merry-go-round spinning. He’ll give up his own happiness for the betterment of others. He refuses to express his memories in words so that he can bear the burden of carrying the travelers by his side.

For the ultimate sacrifice... the show must go on!

#tsukasa tenma #project sekai #pjsekai #project sekai theory #wonderlands x showtime #wxs #emu otori #nene kusanagi #rui kamishiro #luka megurine #project sekai spoilers #please vote I think it would be funny #hopefully this isn't way off base i haven't even read tsukasa's first event yet #most of what i know is through reading lyrics and fandom osmosis lol #but i think it bears weight #tsukasa is my favorite can you tell #this 3dmv is so gorgeous though #so gorgeous that it made me spend an entire hour after lunch typing up this theory instead of doing work on my senior thesis #cest la vie i guess #man... tsukasa la vie... #my theories

[jenukiart]

Coin Tea: Short Exchange 🛍️

Coin Tea: Short Exchange is my college finale piece, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Coin Tea is a slice of life series starring a colorful cast of OCs that I've been building up for years now. I'm super stoked to debut an official media for them, and I'm excited to do even more with them in the future!! I really hope you all enjoy it!!

You clean more about some of the characters here on my tumblr using #jenukiocs

You can also check out a higher quality version of the short on my YouTube and Newgrounds!

#jenukiart #oc #original character #coin tea #ct99c #animation #2d animation #animated short #senior thesis #senior project

[aaliyah-and-her-ocs]

Just wanted to share this cause I'm proud of it— but this is the poster for my senior thesis as an Illustration Major.

Above is a poster for a dating sim concept that all stemmed from a joke of me randomly, with a name generator, hitting the button over and over until got two words that made a logical title and then was like... "WHAT IF I MADE IT A DATING SIM?!"

This is another still from the trailer with the other side characters / "DLC" content (if ya will).

I'll be making a (fake/concept) trailer in like... the next few days and have a voice cast (they only say one line) that I am incredibly greatful for. (I am the VA of Avigail) so I thought I'd share them here too!

I just wanted to share it here cayse why not!

To see more of my work in general (mostly me being a fictosexual/fictoromantic person in my art—) check out my Instagram at @aaliyahandherocs

#original art #senior thesis #art #drawing #digital illustration #digital art #college art #demon oc #dating sim #college project

[hey-scully-itsme]

davinci resolve my best frenemy

#love it hate it can’t live without it #I have ONE THING to do to be DONE with my senior thesis short film #which has been in post for THREE YEARS bc my project management skills sucked for a while there #and also I broke up with my producer (we’re friends it’s chill but it did stall the project) #(have at least one producer you’re not dating kids. actually don’t date your producer at all but if you do have a backup lmao) #anyway I want this thing FINISHED I want it DONE so I can MOVE ON #but first I have to figure out MOTION TRACKING

[godofsmallthings]

screenshotted bc i didn't know if you would want your contact info out there!! i'm so excited that you're excited (hehe) and i will probably be reaching out to you soonish bc i am frankly very intimidated by all the possibilities.

#i've basically turned this into my senior thesis project to hold me accountable to actually do it lol #so the timeline on actually gathering content has had to slow down to follow those deadlines #but in the new year the rubber kind of meets the road for me! #super terrified and excited and all of those things. cannot wait to pour my heart into this project tbh 🥲 #ask

[vriskaserketdaily]

mfw i literally sketched something out today to answer a request ive been mad hype to do but i was too tired to finish so you get yet another freehand post-it vriska today

#vriska serket #mod 8 #homestuck #daily vriska serket #vriska #daily vriska #homestuck vriska #vriska homestuck #i swear to god i will FINISH IT tomorrow but it's hell week so i have 'papers' and a 'senior thesis project' 🙄 #dropping out of college and deleting all my job-finding-website accounts to focus on drawing hs fan art full time #and then quitting that to live in a box and draw my ocs full time while also holding signs at intersections warning about the end times #as a side gig

[haunt-the-stars]

i am writing my undergraduate thesis about jason todd and no one has stopped me yet

#idk if it counts as a thesis itll be like 25 pgs but its like a final senior project thing so

[amochi]

Anyways you guys wanna see my lesbian werewolf vampire girlies

#extreme WIP rn it’s my senior thesis project #but I love they #my art #thoughts #this is part of my master plan of becoming an oc artist #werewolf vampire lesbians

[pink-carnelian]

Patricia taxxon gets it right every fucking time. Legend

#patricia taxxon #I did my senior project (like high school thesis) on the merits of furry art #and she put it better than I ever did #it’s about the symbolism. the tactility. the CATHARSIS

[loving-jack-kelly]

i have 5 final projects due in the next two weeks and three of them are due on the same day lmao. lmao. lmao.

#writing out that it's only 5 does actually make it feel better lol it felt a lot worse when it was nebulous #ohhhh i have so many projects-no. you have 5. you can handle it. #of course. thesis which is the biggest and most important. is due first. #which is great on one hand bc it means I won't be stressed abt it when the three are due three days later #but uh. i haven't touched those three things. literally. #one of them i have half a paragraph and a half assed outline #the other two i Literally havent started. anyway #being a graduating senior is stressfull <3 I'm also applying to jobs. i auditioned for one acts which is so fun I love my one act I'm havin #having fun. but also it adds stress to my schedule bc I have rehearsals and tech and performances next week also. when four of my five #final projects are due #and then i graduate. and im in the real world. and nobody has responded to my job applications yet. screams. #anyway if u read this far i love you <3 peace and love on planet earth I'm truly doing fine and I will be better once I finish #the scene im in rn for my thesis #every other project is soooo easy it's almost silly it's just thesis making me feel like I'm dying when I let myself dwell #so dwell i shan't goodbye i am off to rehearsal and then I shall finish my thesis

[sophisticatedswifts]

I don’t know what it is about this last month before I graduate college but it’s quickly depleting my energy and motivation

#maybe senioritis is real #I think it’s actually finishing my thesis #I poured so much of my motivation into that #and now I’m having to muster up some more to do my last projects for my other classes #can’t wait to catch up on my sleep this summer

[easterncoyoteenthusiast]

The Anthropocene/Conservation Cont.

Individuals across a variety of species alter their environments (e.g., beavers build dams, birds build nests, and earthworms physically/chemically alter soil) in a process called “niche construction.” Humans excel at this kind of activity and often participate in ways that “[use] phenomenal amounts of energy” [1, p. 28]. Unfortunately, this often results in “collateral consequences for climate, species diversity, and landscapes” [1, p. 30]. In response to the acceleration and accumulation of these consequences, it has been proposed that we have left the Holocene and entered into a new geological age called the “Anthropocene.”

Among other things, the Anthropocene is “a tool with which to focus attention on the current role of Homo sapiens in altering the Earth as a whole, and is a shorthand descriptor of that phenomenon” [1, p. 27]. It has become central to many analyses of human-animal relations and has called for us to do away with dualistic thinking of nature/society—with nature existing firmly outside the sphere of human society [2]. Rutherford, for example, has stated that “for all of its conceits around the importance of humans to the stories of the earth, it does invite a recognition that the world only operates via entanglement” [3, p. 215].

In light of this, I would like to acknowledge a study of mammalian movement in response to anthropogenic activity. Tucker et al. have determined that anthropogenic activities are "not only causing the loss of habitat and diversity, but also [affect] how animals move through fragmented and disturbed areas" [4, p. 9; see also 5-8]. Mammalian movements were typically two-to-three times smaller in areas with comparatively high instances of human presence compared to the same movements in areas with lower instances of human presence [4, p. 9]. This was attributed to both (1) an "individual-behavioral effect, where individuals alter their movements relative to" human activity, and (2) "a species-occurrence effect, where certain species that exhibit long-range movement" change their behavior to no longer reside in areas with high instances of human presence [4, pp. 11-12]. In terms of conservation, the authors conclude that animal movements should be considered a key conservation metric and that the goal should be maintaining landscape permeability [4, p. 13].

While most nations have some kind of endangered species legislation in place to prevent the loss of biodiversity, the majority of current conservation policies, practices, and conceptual frameworks are ill-suited to the Anthropocene because they were created "before there was widespread awareness of the unprecedented pace and magnitude of environmental change caused by humans" [9, p. 107]. Kareiva and Fuller recommend that we should instead be anticipating future impacts and "establishing goals that [reflect] the best science as to what is feasible in the future" [9, p. 108]; in short, a review and potential overhaul of current practices and/or conceptual frameworks because "nature is not a business, nor should it be run as one" [9, p. 111].

References:

[1] Boggs, C. (2016). Human Niche Construction and the Anthropocene. RCC Perspectives, 2, 27–32. www.jstor.org/stable/26241355

[2] Fredriksen, A. (2016). Of wildcats and wild cats: Troubling species-based conservation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(4), 689-705. doi.org/10.1177/0263775815623539

[3] Rutherford, S. (2018). The Anthropocene’s animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1-2), 206-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618763250

[4] Tucker, M.A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Fagan, W.F., Fryxell, J., Moorter, B.V., Alberts, S.C., … Mueller, T. (2018). Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Science, 359(6374), 466-469.

[5] Patterson, B.R., Bondrup-Nielsen, S., & Messier, F. (1999). Activity patterns and daily movements of the eastern coyote, Canis latrans, in Nova Scotia. Canadian Field Naturalist, 113(2), 251-257. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285966455

[6] Way, J.G. (2011). Eastern coyote/coywolf (Canis latrans x lycaon) movement patterns: Lessons learned in urbanized ecosystems. Cities and the Environment (CATE), 4(1), Article 2. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol4/iss1/2

[7] Way, J.G. (2021). Coywolf: Eastern coyote genetics, ecology, management, and politics. Eastern Coyote/Coywolf Research, Barnstable, Massachusetts. www.easterncoyoteresearch.com/Coywolf/

[8] Way, J.G., Ortega, I.M., & Strauss, E.G. (2004). Movement and activity patterns of eastern coyotes in a coastal, suburban environment. Northeastern Naturalist, 11(3), 237-254. www.jstor.org/stable/3858416

[9] Kareiva, P. & Fuller, E. (2016). Beyond resilience: How to better prepare for the profound disruption of the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 7(Suppl. 1), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12330

TL;DR:

Humans are niche constructors who greatly alter the environment

The degree to which anthropogenic alterations occur has led to the suggestion that we have left the Holocene and entered the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is a central concept in contemporary human-wildlife analyses and invites a recognition of entanglement

Conservation practices, etc. may need an overhaul to account for the degree of anthropogenic impact on wildlife/the environment

Hybridization | DNA Analyses | Range & Diet | Behavior & Ecology | Attitudes | Conservation

#coywolf #northeastern coyote #eastern coyote #canis latrans var. #canis latrans x canis lycaon #western coyote #eastern wolf #canis latrans #canis lycaon #alternative senior thesis project #the anthropocene #conservation #compassionate conservation #nature/society #interspecific interactions #movement patterns #biodiversity #“nature is not a business nor should it be run as one” #ecology #anthropology #niche construction

[starskichild]

Did I put too much work into this background? Yes

Was it totally worth doing it? Also yes

Am I done yet with this insanity? Not even close wish me luck 🥲

Here is the overhead shot of my little village for my senior thesis! More senior thesis madness is yet to come to stay tuned for that! Now, I’m gonna go to bed I need sleep g’night 😴

-MӨƬΉ

#starskichild #digital art #digital doodle #illustration #art #my artwok #my post #artists on tumblr #doodle #sketch #my ocs #sfw g/t #g/t community #sketches #Project Courage #senior thesis

[aaliyah-and-her-ocs]

My Senior Thesis is all done! Took me a day and half to finally collage all my assets and everything else together. Everything was drawn by myself.

The visual effects (sparkles, grunge effect, fire flames, and shattered glass) those are from Adobe Stock.

And the song is Travel to Space by the Honeycutts.

All Voiceactors Twitters (aside from my own) are in my Instagram Post.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5GpIhtOUTP/?igsh=N3JzemJsaTBhazY0

So please check them all out cause I very much appreciate all their help as well.

There was a tone of things I couldn't include due to time and my struggle levels, but now that thesis is over, I plan to draw all these characters for fun now and who knows, maybe one day make the game a reality if possible.

Here are a couple screencaps from the finished video and ones I couldn't include.

I also have a ton of other things I made to go with it, including the Voice Actor announcement cards (check insta post above), the promotional poster (older pinned post), Postcards and Business cards that include my email, website, and instagram, and Informational pages about each of the characters that I put into files to look like prisoner files that people can look through to learn about one's they may simp for a little bit more.

Anyway I hope you all enjoy!

Here's me at the final show case!

#Hell Cell #art #drawing #original art #original character #college project #college #art college #senior thesis #dating sim #concept art #character design #concept trailer #digital art #digital illustration #illustration #illustration major