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2021 HBS New Year's Eve

2021 HBS New Year's Eve is a concert stage designed for a televised and online New Year's Eve show. The stage is divided into seven zones, with a central stage and auxiliary stages on both sides. A large gyroscope structure forms the center. The structure is 30 meters wide and 25 meters high and rests on a single steel column. The upper half can be raised by a hydraulic cylinder, and the outer ring is moved by twelve computer-controlled hoists. A curved LED screen, water elements and lighting fixtures complete the setting.

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Freeway Loud

Freeway Loud is a three-dimensional product animation created for a footwear brand. The animation presents a shoe inside industrial environments, where machines appear to bring the product to life. The shoe was modeled with hard surface techniques in 3ds Max, using photographs as reference. Textures were built from leather images and digital brushes, and the scenes were rendered with Vray at 1920 by 1080 pixels. The animation was made for online use, and the aim is to attract attention through images alone, without explanatory text.

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Simplest Happiness

The Chinese zodiac in that year is the pig, so Yen C designed the sliced pig, and it's a pun in "many hot movies" in Chinese. The characters are very happy, just in line with the channel's image has always wanted to give the audience the feeling. And combine four movies elements into the video. Children who are playing can best show pure happiness, and hope that the audience will have the same feeling when watching the movie.

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Alignment to Air

As for the creative letter animation, Jin started with the alphabet "A". And, when it comes to the concept step, he tried to see more vigorous moods reflecting on his philosophy which is quite active but organizing at the same time. Along the way, he came up with the conflicting words thoroughly standing for his idea in some way such as align to air which is the title of this project. With that in mind, the animation presents more precise and delicate moments on the first word. On the other hand, this ends up with a rather flexible and loose vibe to manifest the last letter.

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Nunn Bush

The project was made to show all the features of the product in a fun way by being informative but without being annoying. The purpose was to show the construction of the shoe. The inspiration came through the research about elements that could represent the product, like nature with all the colors and moods. The shoe was modeled using photographs as a reference and hard surface 3D modeling techniques. For modeling, designers used the software C4D. All the textures were made using leather texture and some photoshop brushes. Vray was used for rendering and Houdini for Simulations.

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Harp E

Harp-E is the world’s most accessible professional grade electro-acoustic harp. With a complete structural rethink and redesign, the ancient, complicated and elitist harp has become a simple, elegant, flat-pack, self-assembly instrument. All you need for assembly is a hex key. It's a paradigm shift, made for all people and settings, from classrooms to festivals. All fragile parts are sandwiched inside the sturdy frame; Harp-E is portable, stackable, customizable, wearable, adjustable, while boasting superior sound, strings and electronics, all at a fraction of the price and weight.

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