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Weather App based on Art

Feel the weather with a weather app that bases on modern Calligraphy Art.

Personal Work, 2018

Can You Feel It?
The weather forecast, his user's most used app on his phone. The weather forecast, which has accurate weather information for any time and anywhere. In this app vs to regular weather forecast app, the user also can feel the oncoming weather on his phone. Local weather forecast & real time rain, storm, ice & snow reports. So, when you're under the blanket you can feel what's going on outside. By the app, you can prepare your plan carefully.

Brief

Design a smartphone app based on the influence of motion / artist / designer in the design world.

Inspiration

Modern Calligraphy Art and the Arab artist, Sami Salim.

Platform

Mobile phone

The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke."

Jerzy Kosinski

Behind The Screens

I've never had a connection to the Arabic language. However, the magic that came out of the brush strokes and the craftsmanship influenced my choice of Arabic calligraphy as a source of inspiration for the project.

I based this app, on Modern Calligraphy Art and I was influenced by a modern Arab artist, Sami Salim.

Modern Calligraphy Art it's the decorative art by writing. In modern calligraphy art, written words use association and sophisticated ways to express emotions. The words don't always have to say their written interpretation. But, in the way the words appear in the craftwork, they send the viewer a message and affect his feelings.

Sami Salim, is a modern Arab artist, from Cairo and lives in Dubai. His works show how Arabic calligraphy takes on a different and modern character, following the influence of contemporary culture.

Research | References

Research | The layout of the App is based on 'Yahoo weather' App.

Visual Approach

In Modern Calligraphy Art, the expression of the emotions is reflected in the font, structure, gesture, and ink, and there is also an aesthetic judgment. In the app, the weather sensation expressed through the abstract style on the screens and by the different color materials. The emotional and physical experience descript by adjusting color according to the appropriate color temperature in each forecast.

process | Interpretation of weather symbol

process | Interpretation of the calligraphy

process | The screens

How Its Work

Touch & Feel what is the weather forecast of today

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Lee Rubin | UXI designer

Enthusiastic designer interactions & user experience

Email: Leerubin6@gmail.com

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Work.

Fun.

About.

Weather App_opening_page

Weather App based on Art

Feel the weather with a weather app that bases on modern Calligraphy Art.

Personal Work, 2018

Can You Feel It?
The weather forecast, his user's most used app on his phone. The weather forecast, which has accurate weather information for any time and anywhere. In this app vs to regular weather forecast app, the user also can feel the oncoming weather on his phone. Local weather forecast & real time rain, storm, ice & snow reports. So, when you're under the blanket you can feel what's going on outside. By the app, you can prepare yourplan carefully.

Brief

Design a smartphone app based on the influence of motion / artist / designer in the design world.

Inspiration

Modern Calligraphy Art and the Arab artist, Sami Salim.

Platform

Mobile phone

The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke."

Jerzy Kosinski

The Impact Of Adult Role Models For Little Girls

One day I saw my niece, Shira, measuring her mother's wedding shoes. The shoes were huge on her little feet. at that moment, when she walked with them proudly,
I could see the sparks in her eyes. Then I realized the importance of the Idiom:
"Big Shoes to Fill". Making little girls want to get as far as they can, without focusing on the fear of falling. And for that, they need an adult character as an influential role model in their lives, like the way Shira looks at her mom.

Visual Approach

  • “To Be The New Elsa”
    There is no doubt that the first movie of "Frozen", made a big impact on little girls. The girls of our time want to be strong and independent. Suddenly everyone wants to be Elsa, because Elsa represents a strong female character and not dependent on anyone, compared to her sister Anna, who is looking for love.
    I have based the visual look on the contemporary films of Disney and Pixar, in order to make my film to feel familiar, attractive, and contemporary to the little girls, who already loved Elsa.

  • It was important for me to put in a documentary and connect it to the animation so that the girls could see that it was a real woman behind the story.

    • Connection | The documentary section connects the three dimensional.

    Script & Storyboard

    I asked my niece, Shira, what she mostly remembers about the movie "frozen".
    She answered me, that at the beginning of the movie, Elsa and Anna are seen as little girls. I immediately went to see again some of Disney movies. Then it was clear to me, in order to create a sense of childhood identification with the main character, I had to start the film with an exposition section that shows the main character as a little girl, and after that, the logo would enter and the movie will start.

    I wrote the script several times, but because I felt it was not closed,
    I approached screenwriter Shiri Cohen. Shiri took everything I wrote and used it to write a new script. Her script was beautiful but very long and full of characters. With the help of my lecturer, Shimon, we decided that there should be only one female character in the story, the main star. And the supporting characters need to be men, to empower and highlight the main character.
    Also, we agreed that the story needs to be simple! so we decided on a simple story template:

    Logo -> Declaration of Goal -> Conflict -> The way to achieve the goals + Obstacles-> Success (The Climax) -> Counter Character Response -> Ending. I went back to all the scripts that written, and with basing the story template, I wrote a new script with a new storyboard. To improve the storyboard, I approach consulting a friend of mine, the filmmaker Maor Alteras, and together we thought of more interesting camera angles to help tell the story.

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    Design

    In the design of the main character (Amelia) and some frames, I tried to be as close as possible to the documentary photos.

    Reference | The main character, Amelia, designed to be closest to her original look.

    Reference | An example for frame

    The Animation Process

  • At first, I filmed myself playing each character for the animation to feel smooth. Each section for each character I shot in several different versions. I cut each section and edited into one video that should express the movement of the same character in every section of the film. Then, I used two computers. In one, I played the video of me playing the character, and in the other, I copied and created the animation for the film.

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    Examples | Animation from self photography

  • In some of the talking sections, I used the app called "Face Cap", which help me to photographed myself speaking texts, and conveyed the facial speech movement to the characters through using the plugin "Face Cap X" in Maya.

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    Examples | Face Cap X and the character, in Maya.

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    Bests | Frames from the movie

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    Learning

    I started studying 3D alone after I saw a picture of a 3D character,
    which opened my curiosity.

    At the beginning of this project, I had a basic knowledge in Maya 3D software. During the project, I learned more software that works with Maya and helped improve and develop the 3D character (as Daz & Substance Painter).
    And I deepened my knowledge of Maya software through self-learning
    and lots of tutorials.

    The Next Step

    There are two options for the future:

    The first option - after making more films in the series, you can produce a doll of each female character, that way the girls can collect the characters and having the doll of the character that they feel most connected to.
    The second option - you can take the idea of the series for girls and make a series of films for boys, to try to influence them through key figures like Nicolas Tesla, etc.

    Next Project >

    Weather App based on Art

    Feel the weather with a weather app that bases on modern Calligraphy Art.

    Personal Work, 2018

    Can You Feel It?
    The weather forecast, his user's most used app on his phone. The weather forecast, which has accurate weather information for any time and anywhere. In this app vs to regular weather forecast app, the user also can feel the oncoming weather on his phone. Local weather forecast & real time rain, storm, ice & snow reports. So, when you're under the blanket you can feel what's going on outside. By the app, you can prepare your plan carefully.

    Brief

    Design a smartphone app based on the influence of motion / artist / designer in the design world.

    Inspiration

    Modern Calligraphy Art and the Arab artist, Sami Salim.

    Platform

    Mobile phone

    The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke."

    Jerzy Kosinski

    Behind The Screens

    I've never had a connection to the Arabic language. However, the magic that came out of the brush strokes and the craftsmanship influenced my choice of Arabic calligraphy as a source of inspiration for the project.

    I based this app, on Modern Calligraphy Art and I was influenced by a modern Arab artist, Sami Salim.

    Modern Calligraphy Art it's the decorative art by writing. In modern calligraphy art, written words use association and sophisticated ways to express emotions. The words don't always have to say their written interpretation. But, in the way the words appear in the craftwork, they send the viewer a message and affect his feelings.

    Sami Salim, is a modern Arab artist, from Cairo and lives in Dubai. His works show how Arabic calligraphy takes on a different and modern character, following the influence of contemporary culture.

    Research | References

    Research | The layout of the App is based on 'Yahoo weather' App.

    Visual Approach

    In Modern Calligraphy Art, the expression of the emotions is reflected in the font, structure, gesture, and ink, and there is also an aesthetic judgment. In the app, the weather sensation expressed through the abstract style on the screens and by the different color materials. The emotional and physical experience descript by adjusting color according to the appropriate color temperature in each forecast.

    process | Interpretation of weather symbol

    process | Interpretation of the calligraphy

    process | The screens

    How Its Work

    Touch & Feel what is the weather forecast of today

    Next Project >

    Other projects |
    That might interest you

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    The graduation project of b.des degree & Case study.  #Expressing_my_values
    See More
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    Biofeedback game app following a personal story. #UXI#Creating_better_experience#Childrens_game
    See More
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    Think forward & Brand identity. #UXI#Branding#Way_of_thinking
    See More
    FooFoo
    Air balloon digital game that combines an air-dry device, sensors, code & Teamwork. #UXI#Thinking_outside_the_box#Interactive_game
    See More
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    Feel and see the temperature outside, basing on art influence. #UXI#Thinking_outside_the_box#Interactive_game
    See More
    Guanxi & Giri
    A social network that creates a community of good deeds in the professional field without financial gain #UX_project#Donation#Community
    See More
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    Money transfer apps. #UX_project#Complexity
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    Previous
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    Lee Rubin | UXI designer

    Enthusiastic designer interactions
    & user experience

    Email: Leerubin6@gmail.com

    Check me on:

    Linkedin-in Facebook Vimeo Instagram Dribbble

    © 2016 Lee Rubin.  All rights.