Experience LoFi

This project was my Capstone project during my final semester at Iowa State University in the spring of 2024. Experience LoFi is an immersive multi-sensory experience that combines augmented reality with the aesthetic of lo-fi music. It brings the very essence of the lo-fi aesthetic right into your living room. In this case, I brought it into my living room by recreating the space in the digital realm. There are 10 items in total that I modeled and animated from scratch using Cinema 4D. I made sure to get the dimensions, color, and lighting to match the scene exactly while modeling and rendering. Experience LoFi is meant to allow the viewer to physically enter into a space that they have seen exist only in a digital realm, reflecting reality with imagination, and inspiring you to not only think within the constructs of the physical world. This project was displayed at the 2024 Graphic Design Senior Show at the Iowa Events Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. For this project, it was centered around the experience rather than the animations themselves, but that was the main deliverable, with both animations being played on a loop in sync (one on the projector screen and one on the TV). I was very happy with how this project turned out and I got some really great feedback from people on what they thought about the experience when they viewed it at the senior show where I had it on display (see pictures below). I used Cinema 4D to model, animate, and render everything for the two animations. I used Adobe After Effects to do post-editing and final exports of the two animations. I used Adobe Illustrator to create the logo and ordered stickers for people to take at the senior show exhibition from Sticker Mule. The music I played in the space was LoFi music from various artists from a playlist I created on Apple Music. For the vaporwave section of the TV animations, I found free to use models for the atlas and the two temple models from TurboSquid, other than that all of the work is my own original work modeled, animated, drawn, and created solely by me.