Computer Applications

During this session, I was preparing for the 3rd Freaky Friday of the course. My partner (Jo-Jo) and I decided to discuss about A.I. (artificial intelligence). During my half of the time, I talked about the usage of DeepFake, “an AI -based technology used to produce or alter video content so that it presents something that didn't, in fact, occur” (Rouse). I had fun researching about this topic because I didn’t know that DeepFake was considered artificial intelligence. I thought the creator of the DeepFake videos had insane photo editing skills that allowed them to replace the face with other people, but I learned that the system is actually two competing generators. Generator (creates fake video) and Discriminator (determines whether or not video is fake or real) work together to perfect a video that’s AI generated, which makes it hard for people to determine which one is real and which one is fake. I wrote a script for Freaky Friday, expecting to talk and push the conversation a c...

For this session, I’ve been analyzing my favorite animated music videos. To get ideas and figure out the “secret formula” for a visually pleasing music video. Rather than typing up a blog that will discuss all my findings in the countless animated music videos I’ve watched, I’ve narrowed this discuss one music video that really amaze me. As seen in the title I’ve decided to write about True Damage - GIANTS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZpHFXcFJw First off with Riot’s new Hip-Hop song released on October 10, 2019: GIANTS. It contains a lot of fast and smooth transitions, color scheme, mixture of 3D and 2D animation, and the use of reference. The 2D characters seen the shots are mainly hand-drawn (2D) and the background and special effects are 3D. This mixture of 3D and 2D give the animation a lot of life and form. On top of the combination of 2D and 3D animation, the animators created very smooth transition from singer to singer. Another major detail about this project is how smo...