Past Present.

Welcome to our shows from 2020-2023.

This is a showcase of work by students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, who graduated from 2020 to 2022.

It's all of us, together, in a digital show you curate for yourself - not pre-arranged into rooms, courses or disciplines. You do the arranging. Want to see all the red things we made? Or all the work about identity, nature or isolation? Look at what you want to, when you want to, whether it's all the illustration, all the writing, all the movies or performance. You get the idea.

This exhibition is yours for the making. Go explore.

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CJ Faichney

Digital Media Production - BA (Hons)

I am CJ, a creative media practitioner from Northern Ireland, and I’m soon to be finishing a BA (Hons) in Digital Media production at ARU Cambridge. As ever I look forward to seeing where I can take my creative ability and talents. With an interest in 3D modelling, Content Creation and Creating Immersive & Interactive Storytelling Experiences. In whatever form they come, seeing it as a chance to broaden my skillset.

My goal is to make a break into the Creative Media Industry, as this is something I have felt enthusiastic about for a long time. Though I am interested in pursuing Post-Graduate education as well & I have hobbies in a-typical art, creative writing, video gaming & photography.

For my final Major Project, I continued working on a joint university collaboration live brief-project called “New Canterbury Tales.” This is what I would describe as ‘Multi-Output’ Storytelling.

My work consisted of helping build this world, from stories /lore we had on it and its inhabitants, planned in World Anvil, and built in Minecraft. Specifically, I worked to create 3D content as A-Typical Art, using Minecraft, both an export-printing program called “Mineways” and “Minecraft Overviewer.”

With Mineways I was able to extract 3D models which I then imported to Blender which I learnt there and then to be able to achieve the results I wanted, high quality, lit, textured, and rendered out imagery.

With Minecraft Overviewer, I was able to create an interactive map of the world data that you could explore, then using Amazon Web Services and LightSail to get it hosted online, through a direct link or via QR code.

This was just part of my contribution to the project, but one I thought showed a good showcase of how a small fishing village, becomes consumed by big tech & how the city could be conceptualised in a-typical art forms. For in Digital Media Production we are encouraged to experiment and explore our creativity.

Welcome to The City of New Canterbury - Rendered from Blender by CJ and made collaboratively in Minecraft for the New Canterbury Tales Project.

Welcome to The City of New Canterbury

New Canterbury Shadow Showcase - This image rendered from Blender by CJ and made collaboratively in Minecraft, was lit with an HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) to give it life through lighting, shadows, and accurate shading, showing off the western side of the city.

Old Golspie - This image rendered from Blender by CJ and made collaboratively in Minecraft, shows off the old fishing town that existed long before ‘Big Tech’ moved into the area and claimed ownership.

Online Interactive Map for Phones - I was able to make the map viewable on a smartphone browser, via the same cloud platform technology.

Phone Shaped N.C.T QR Code. To make this map more accessible to users, I created this QR Code that I will be printing to display in the 2022 CSA Degree show.