Jedi team| The Art of It All

The Art of It All

What have you learned about yourself or the world as a result of living through the COVID-19 pandemic? Your challenge is to express your experience of living through this historic time through a work of art.

Alone but not for long...

Summary

This project tells the current world health crisis situation as a story through a webpage with animations and pictures, and invites viewers to become part of this story by doing a survey and giving them a drawing, in anime style, that better represent their answers. All drawings are accumulated and presented as a collage on the web page.The purpose is to tell people what we have been trough and remind them with the drawings we give to them that this is not forever, and we support each other.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project tries to capture the feelings of people during this isolation time, through cartoons and personal questions a final picture will be show to demonstrate the person's feelings so he/she will remember this moment not only as a harmful time but also as a reflexive and self-improvement time.

How We Developed This Project

The inspiration came when Joe Figueroa, who is part of the team started making drawings about the current situation. Then with all that we see everyday in the news and other media, was telling us that we have to motivate people to stay strong, to tell them our story and involve them in some way, so that all people can feel supported. From that idea, our project was born.

For the actual development:

  • We designed a web page using HTML CSS and JS, and on scroll animation javascript packages. 
  • For the drawings, initial drawings are made by hand. Then we use photoshop and clip studio paint to color and finish the drawings.
  • All of the project was built using mid tier laptops with ubuntu for the development of the web page and windows for the drawings.

Problems:

  • Brainstorming was done trough google hangouts. It was not as fluid as talking in person. Also, we had experienced difficulties due to problems with the internet service provider.
  • Limited time did not let use fully implement the backend.

Achievements:

  • Designed a beautiful web page with animations to tell our story.
  • Created drawings with high quality, even when time was limited.
  • Great team work and coordination.
  • Turned this difficult situation into a reason to stay strong.
Project Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44sJk4n5rg&feature=youtu.be

Project Code
Data & Resources
Tags
#covid19 #web #development #code #story #art #drawing #anime
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.