Visual Fluency
This is the visual fluency project for art 245
Description
For this project I wanted to choose a topic that was close to me, I thought about stuff like political news happening in Iran or the bad work environments in the animation industry but the idea that spoke to me the most was talking about the video game industry since I spend a lot of time with friends on games and I am going to work on video games as a job. There were multiple areas that I could have gone with this topic like hostile work environment, or mistreatment of the player base, but what I thought was the root of these factors was the greed that is in the industry at the moment. I think the best way I could have done this is to show greed as a metaphor. I thought that a black hole was a good metaphor for the big game companies and having all the different paid currency being sucked into the black hole shows how the companies just want money and destroying what the players love while sucking all the money from them. I chose different kinds of money, from hundred dollar bills to things you would find in games like Riot Points, Vbucks, or Apex Tokens.
The most difficult part of the project was getting the black hole in the shape of a controller. I did not know how to transform the picture I had and it was also tough to choose the right image for a black hole. There were also ripples that I struggled with. I did not like how I edited them so I had to go in with a brush and add a faint background to them.
https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/overwatch-coins#optLogin=true
https://www.windowscentral.com/everything-you-can-do-game-currency-apex-legends
https://www.thegamer.com/helldivers-2-why-is-meridia-black-hole/
https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/flying-money
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283261878875
https://fortnite.fandom.com/wiki/V-Bucks
https://skycoach.gg/lol-boost/rp
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/10_remarkable_Earth_facts