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Happy Lantern Festival! ๐Ÿฎ๐ŸŽ‡

Happy Lantern Festival! This marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration (it lasts for two weeks haha). We celebrate by eating one of my favorite childhood desserts, glutinous rice balls (tangyuan)! ๐Ÿคค๐Ÿ’•

Rice ball cow and Boba cow canโ€™t wait to eat some tangyuan! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

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A Boba Cafe - Animation using Procreate

I wanted to try making small, simple animations to post on my Instagram story, so I attempted one using Procreateโ€™s new animation assist feature. Itโ€™s a really nice addition to the app and makes animating soooooo much easier, I highly recommend it!

Hereโ€™s the animation I made for a Letโ€™s Make A Boba of the Day story post Iโ€™m planning on continuing for my Instagram!

A Boba Cafe - The Beginning!

Back in April 2019, I wrote an interactive story for a game about a wolf-human named TianLang who has the amazing superpower of making the perfect boba drink for his customers at A Boba Cafe. I wanted to make this game a reality, and what better time to start than now! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

When I first started grad school at USC for Interactive Media and Games in August 2018, I had little (if not no) experience in Unity. I was limited in my ability to create digital prototypes in a timely manner, which led to me not being able to take my time on personal projects amidst my chaotic school schedule. However, in less than a year, I was able to become proficient and comfortable enough with Unity to attempt prototyping and coding for my own purposes.

I started making my game in December 2019 while I was on Winter Break. Now that school started again, itโ€™ll take a while to make my game since Iโ€™ll be balancing school work with personal work. But Iโ€™m determined to keep working on it to bring my stories and characters to life! I hope you all look forward to seeing A Boba Cafe! ๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ’• In the meantime, here are some images of my characters (from left to right) - Qilin, Bobasaur, and TianLang!