

3D Interactive Icon Design
Punchcut San Francisco CA, US
Motion Designer 2020.12- 2021.06, Internship/Contract
During my internship at Punchcut, I was given the freedom to create a project that included my personal passion and interests. My final design was a combination of 3D simulations and real-time interaction, creating a visual piece that evolved in time and in response to users' input. Taking the 2D icons as reference and inspiration, I used Touchdesigner to build the 3D version of each icon and embedded interactive functions into the simulation. The final results were screen recordings of me interacting with the icons in Touchdesigner.
Special thanks to my mentor and senior directors for their design guidance and support!
Emotion Box
Emotion Box is an interactive installation that projects six pieces of animation into an enclosed space (like a black box), each piece being an expression of a specific emotion. The six emotions are happiness, affection, sadness, anger, disgust and tranquility. Once participants enter the space and talk about their feelings and thoughts, computer AI would detect their emotions and play the corresponding animation. This project was commissioned by SeeekLab Studio based in Xiamen, China. It was then displayed in Guangzhou, China, as a part of the exhibition--WeChat World on Jan 9, 2020.
Seeklab Xiamen Fujian, China
Animator/Designer 2019.12 - 2020.01, Contract

Participants at the event.
Personal Exploration
More experiments on the project after delivery