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update 12/12/2021


“No Man is an Island”
No man is an island entire of itself; every man 
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; 
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe 
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as 
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine 
own were; any man's death diminishes me, 
because I am involved in mankind. 
And therefore never send to know for whom 
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

︎ During my exploration in Unreal Engine, I found out its more diffcult than I thought, so I changed my direction and what Im gonna make. I will contuine doing that one when I know more about UE.


︎ The level struggled me a bit, because when I tried to put one level into another, it kept showing I have two direction light, and I dont knwo how to solve this. Also, everytime I I tried to run it, it kept showing those yellow error notice.





︎ This is my first demo. The sun in the back is a mesh texture from a plugin I got, I felt it look very peaceful when a glowy shape in there. And I really like the feeling of everything is floating.





︎ Then I download some objs to match the sea, and random the music when I click the objects. However, the floating effect wasnt that great, the objs liooks like its flying over the sea although I added same effect from the demo. 







update 11/29/2021

︎ Theme: dream, mentally, wonder, warm clothes, needle, mysteries, chaos...



︎ My inspirations are from a novel called The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I gathered some quotes from the book. Unfortunately, I read the Chinese version, so I couldn't find the exact quote I noted in Chinese.


“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
“I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.”
“the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn’t get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be terrible anyway; it always is. It”


︎ Also, I found a dream I recorded a few years ago; since The Long Goodbye talks about murder and detective, my dream is about murder and mysteries. The images below are the dream in Chinese and English.





︎ Besides, books seem to be from the past, dreams are superstitions for superstition's sake, and hanging out is mostly just for social media. Modern life is a sea of images. We are overwhelmed by bright pictures and words flashing at us from all directions. The overstimulated brain must quickly adapt to dealing with the disarray of data. The disorder in our minds causes blind surrender to our desires and our inability to control and appease our emotions; this leads to madness, disgust and bad habits, melancholy from sadness, rage from rejection, gluttony, depression, and the worst of all, madness. The world is a beast. So I want to use distorted colors and chaotic lines to express these inexplicable feelings.


︎This is my first demo. The sun in the back is a mesh texture from a plugin I got, I felt it look very peaceful when a glowy shape in there. And I really like the feeling of everything is floating.


︎ Sketch, a rotten book surrounded by other chaotic objects.