Author: Jonathan Shiery

Animal Pattern – Whales

Synthetic Pattern – Baseball

For my subtractive assignment, I decided to use a picture from the intro of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! I took a screenshot of this frame from the intro to edit.

Original

For my edited photo, I decided to remove the magic carpet and everyone atop it from the picture.

Edited

In the original context of the image, the creatures down below, called Piranha Plants, are chomping at everyone on the carpet above. However, after editing everyone out of the image, this no longer appears to be the case. In the edited picture, it now appears that the left Piranha Plant is lunging towards the right one, while the right one appears to have been hit or to be dodging the hit. The removal of this integral piece from the picture changes the scene’s context entirely. I decided to do this edit because I wanted to show the role that object placement has in different forms of media, in this case, television shows. Despite the Piranha Plants themselves not changing their position between images in the slightest, the way the human eye perceives what is happening is different because of their surroundings.

My name is Jonathan Shiery and I’m a freshman working towards a major in Interactive Media and Game Development. I have lived in California for most of my life.

Throughout my whole life, I have played video games and have wanted to become a game designer for the longest time. The way that games have influenced me and the way that I see games influencing others has inspired me to go on this path to become a game designer. I love to dissect games to see the design choices made when the game was in development. I have even began to create video games of my own in my spare time. Video games create a certain feeling for me that no other form of media can replicate, which is why I want to pursue down this path to create games of my own.

I’m not an amazing artist by any stretch of the imagination, however I do like to experiment with it every once in a while. I like to gravitate towards pixel art when creating a piece of artwork, since it is simpler and honestly more fun to create than other forms of artwork.

I made this image as my final project for AR 1100. My thought process was to try and make a peaceful scene. This was also when I started experimenting with different features in the program Gimp 2. I used it to keep the pixelated look of the birds, while also trying to make them feel dynamic.

In a discord server, the admins were holding a contest to create a Mario-themed Halloween icon for the server. The contest allowed the use of any official Mario artwork, so I ended up using some for my submission.

I based my low-res icon on my love for studying the ideas of game design whenever I can. To me, these subtle design decisions are important to realize so that I can apply them myself when I become the game designer.