NYU Tisch MPS Art Direction

Edward Hong, Federico Napoleone, Shawn Dai, Fay Zou

Edward Hong, Federico Napoleone, Shawn Dai, Fay Zou

Michaela Bailey, Cian Collins, Xinyi Dai, Mavis Yuan

Michaela Bailey, Cian Collins, Xinyi Dai, Mavis Yuan

Alex Qu, Jabari Browne, Hongyuan Kang, Audrey Liu

Alex Qu, Jabari Browne, Hongyuan Kang, Audrey Liu

Just a nice little cabin by the water, nothing to worry about.

A practice in the style of a commercial advertisement. Each scene, reflecting a theme from reality, captures the aesthetic of real world.

What would you do if you had to STOP at a random gas station at MIDNIGHT?

Welcome to Starling’s Hollow — a cozy little village tucked inside the hollow stump of an ancient tree. Here, the fairies rest after long days of playful mischief and trinket collecting. Stay awhile, but don’t linger too long… they don’t take kindly to uninvited guests.

Obra Dinn, Hongyuan Kang, Return of the Obra Dinn..

Studio Project 2 by Alex Qu. Built from low-poly assets in UE, the video toys with what ‘reality’ even means. In a class full of technically dazzling projects, my aim is simpler: to make everyone laugh for a moment. See tags below as an expression of apology^^;;

The spatial layout will encourage slow movement and reflection, as if the viewer is walking through a memory of cinema itself. Textures, materials, and lighting will be chosen to emphasize the contrast between light and darkness—mirroring the way films reveal emotion through illumination and shadow. This environment aims to capture the essence of cinematic experience while inviting viewers to engage with film as a visual and emotional art form.

After the avalanche, the deserted mountaintop village was occupied by several nuo folk religion masks.

To things that we used to love.

There’s nothing much in my Neverland but the instinct to set an empty field on fire, sometimes I feel nothing but anger towards the vast void of helpless emotion while it is hard to hear anything back.

For my Project 2 I decided to take some inspiration from the Silent Hill goes to create a horror, fog based environment, where you may or may not be entirely alone...