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Project Description
Our project tackles the traditional meaning of the Chinese Zodiac, one that attempts to predict anything from your personality traits to love compatibility. Instead of pursuing tradition, our project focuses on the stories we all share, regardless of our sign; namely, our happiest moments. We gathered stories of happiness from people that represent every Chinese Zodiac sign, accompanied by a hand-drawn flip book. The overall dark, spooky aesthetic contrasted with our light-hearted stories and illustrations serves to highlight our concept of breaking traditions. Too often people search to horoscopes or their Chinese Zodiac for answers, in place of actively pursuing their goal. We believe following this dark theme highlights our critique/ nuanced take on Chinese Zodiac.
Process
Our project suffered a delayed start due to changing project ideas. Fortunately, we were able to gather all of our assets with plenty of time to figure out logistics. Shirley mainly handled the coding, while I conducted interviews and made the flip books. I believe we split up our work rather efficiently, and working on separate assets allowed us to progress through our project in a timely manner. Because our project is more art-based (images and text), there were few coding problems to overcome and we were thus able to spend more time adjusting our layout.
Post-Mortem
I’m very pleased with how our project turned out, especially due to the delayed beginning. I think our project actively captures what we set out to do, serving as both a visually-appealing and purposeful work on the Chinese Zodiac. Obviously, if we had more time, I would’ve loved to develop the flip books even more, both in length and interactivity. However, I don’t have any regrets with our final project and I’d be happy to continue developing it in the future.