Shufei Ma

My last 7 in 7 project is the second version of “Magical lamp”, this time I add a candle. When I turn on the light,  I put the candle under the light, and when I turn off the light, the candle absorbs all the energy and translate to the fire. In some ways, electricity and …

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My 6th 7 in 7 project is called “Magical lamp”, in this project, I still convey the concept that combines real life scene with illustration, just to make an interesting short animation. I believe that creativity and design can come from our daily life, I mean if you look at things in a different way, …

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Today I finally made a short animation of “Woody the Chick” which I mentioned yesterday (so happy to fulfill my promise :D), and of course, this time I used After Effects to do it. To make this animation, first I took a short film of my desk and used it as the background of the …

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“What is design?” There is no certain answer to this question, probably because we all have our own perspective about the meaning of design.From John Maeda’s article, now I know how other people think about design and that helps me a lot in understanding design better. I agree that designing for people is a lot …

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I haven’t used After Effects before, so this time I decided to make a title sequence of my name. I added a sound effect on it, it’s the sound of honey bees. It took me about 1 hour to finished it, and the final one looks so funny: honey bees fly around my name. The …

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Since I moved into my new home, I didn’t have any storage box in my bedroom, therefore I have to put everything on my desk, and this is the reason why my desk looks so mussy. So I decided to make a tiny little storage box using the material of a cookie box. When I …

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My project today is also the animation of Woody,this time I made it 19 seconds. I did all the animation in the Photoshop, and I found it is a little bit hard for me to draw the movement which I never did before.   I spent about 2 hours to finish it, although the movement …

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Constraints:  I want to make an animation about a lovely chick who called “Woody”. The animation combines some reality scenes in my bedroom with illustrate animal character. So far I have made the title of my animation. I planned to spend 1 hour to finish the title , but it took me more than 1 …

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Escaping flatland From this article, I learned that a good information design must have three elements: high quality maps which combine substance, statistics and design; diverse details which enable readers to understand the main idea in shortest time; several layers of close reading combined with an overview data from engineering surveys. Otherwise, the whole data …

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My concept about the redesign is to make the home page looks more simplify, and let people feel more comfortable by using it. When I use the Facebook, I don’t really like the way they put our photos and status. The left and right side bars really occupy a lot of space, and this is …

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