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flatbeek art thread
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WEEK 6 OF A PIECE A WEEK
"When it's Mii, it's you."
THIS PIECE MADE ME START TEARING UP LIKE ACTUALLY
i recently found a Mii rendering tool that you can use to build Mii's online and spit out either renders or RIGGED 3D MODELS of them. this has been my dream tool for so so so many years. (side note: you can find that tool right here !)
so i played around with it, and an idea formed. i thought back to old nintendo ads and how they'd use a single photograph and maybe a tagline to make a strong statement. i wanted to play into that so i dug through old wii files and my 3ds mii channel and made as close as i could to the way i used to make myself over the years. i had the idea of a line of miis showing the growth of someone, and then progressively getting less saturated in color the older they were. the idea of "an avatar that grows with you, wherever you grow" seemed not only like a REALLY cool caption, but something i felt was distinct to Mii's in particular.
at least for me, the Wii and 3DS were such a big part of my life and got me into making music and art and so many of my fondest childhood memories were built on their backs. all throughout, i'd constantly be changing my Mii to look how i "wanted to look." at some point it kept actually looking like me irl and i realized that i kinda hit a personal goal in that regard.
when it all came together i realized i'd sort of unintentionally made a piece about my relationship with the Wii and the subsequent consoles afterwards and with my gender. it's a weirdly specific but scarily accurate way of showing my personal growth as a human in how i've slowly come to grow into the girl i really wanna be.
i realized i'd never really had it laid out like this before and something just kinda broke inside of me. where i started and where i am were literally 50m away from each other and they're so clearly two different people. but in between those, it showed the journey i took to get here. and i suddenly found that i was very proud of myself.
not just for making a good piece of art this week, but for getting this far at all.
'til next week <3
"When it's Mii, it's you."
THIS PIECE MADE ME START TEARING UP LIKE ACTUALLY
i recently found a Mii rendering tool that you can use to build Mii's online and spit out either renders or RIGGED 3D MODELS of them. this has been my dream tool for so so so many years. (side note: you can find that tool right here !)
so i played around with it, and an idea formed. i thought back to old nintendo ads and how they'd use a single photograph and maybe a tagline to make a strong statement. i wanted to play into that so i dug through old wii files and my 3ds mii channel and made as close as i could to the way i used to make myself over the years. i had the idea of a line of miis showing the growth of someone, and then progressively getting less saturated in color the older they were. the idea of "an avatar that grows with you, wherever you grow" seemed not only like a REALLY cool caption, but something i felt was distinct to Mii's in particular.
at least for me, the Wii and 3DS were such a big part of my life and got me into making music and art and so many of my fondest childhood memories were built on their backs. all throughout, i'd constantly be changing my Mii to look how i "wanted to look." at some point it kept actually looking like me irl and i realized that i kinda hit a personal goal in that regard.
when it all came together i realized i'd sort of unintentionally made a piece about my relationship with the Wii and the subsequent consoles afterwards and with my gender. it's a weirdly specific but scarily accurate way of showing my personal growth as a human in how i've slowly come to grow into the girl i really wanna be.
i realized i'd never really had it laid out like this before and something just kinda broke inside of me. where i started and where i am were literally 50m away from each other and they're so clearly two different people. but in between those, it showed the journey i took to get here. and i suddenly found that i was very proud of myself.
not just for making a good piece of art this week, but for getting this far at all.
'til next week <3
