UW-Stout Masters Thesis Collection - Creative Thesis
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Designing a Limb Rigging Assistant for Character Animation
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)The field of character animation has seen significant advancements, but the rigging process remains time-consuming and prone to error. Technical artists for animation have many characters that need to be rigged, so automating ... -
Graphic Nonfiction for Eco-Educational Resource/Just Say NOPE to Plastic
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)The genre of graphic novels and graphic nonfiction is experiencing a renaissance. In the past, comic illustrated format was rejected as inferior, even dangerous. In recent years, however, it has begun to gather attention ... -
Gaming to Bolster Creativity
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)This thesis discusses the declining trend in creative thinking and an exploration in game development to enhance creativity. K.H. Kim’s research has quantitatively shown that there has been a steady decline in creative ... -
Re-Imagining the Spooner Railroad Park as a Center for Community and Railroad History, Recreation, and Edutainment
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)Like many turn-of-the-20th century US towns, the architectural and cultural history of Spooner, WI started with a railroad. But remnants of that history are fading with the passage of time as are members of the community ... -
Reflections on Affective Interaction Design
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)The goal of this project is to explore affective design through unconventional human-computer interactions, specifically to create moments of user delight. This paper begins with an investigation of related history, practice, ... -
A Thread Through History: How Interlinking Contemporary Art with Paj Ntaub can Connect Generations
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2023)To Broken Souls is a YA novel that serves as a love letter to my identity as a Hmong American. I explore the intergenerational conflict between the various generations of the Hmong and the cultural conflicts that arise in ... -
Graphic Design Education: A New Perspective to Include Neurodiversity in Design
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)Graphic design education is more than a study of technique and technology, more than form. It is a pursuit of fluency with ever-changing social and cultural values within our society (Bennett, 2006). Practical theories ... -
Changing Design Aesthetic: Trends, and Social Organizations of the Growing Toy Market for the Adult Collector
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)Since the creation of the articulated G.I. Joe line of toys in 1964, the “action figure” has remained the preeminent method for companies to pluck a character from any form of media and encapsulate its essence in plastic, ... -
The Heart and Design Project: Meaningful Work in the Contemporary Design Practice
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2016)The human desire to have a meaningful life is universal. A meaningful life is recognized as one that creates purpose and has heart-felt connections (Heintzelman, King, & Anderson, 2014; Maslow & Langfeld, 1943). This ... -
Representation and Diversity in the Horror Genre: How Design Research Can Inform the Creation of a Themed Lifestyle Publication
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)Leigh Janiak, director of the 2021 Fear Street trilogy states, “What sets apart this trilogy from other horror series before it is the fact that it centers on the kinds of characters who don’t usually take center stage in ... -
Playing With Heartbreak: Research & Development for a Game About Breaking Up
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2022)Octopus Pot is a visual novel game about the complexities of falling in love, growing apart, breaking up, and moving on. The game was made using design research strategies to improve the impact and quality of the storytelling. ... -
Learning Experience Design – Ecotourism Exchange Program for Chinese International Students
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)According to the Chinese Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China’s (2020) press release Statistics on Chinese Learners Studying Overseas in 2019, a total of 6,560,600 Chinese nationals had studied abroad ... -
Chinese Style Digital Painting
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2017)Digital painting, as a new medium, has adapted styles and skills from many traditional art forms. Traditional Chinese painting has thousands of years of history with unique aesthetic value and profound artistic achievement. ... -
Motion Graphic and Tangible User Interface for Audience Participation in Recorded Live Performance
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)In the spring of 2021, a high school musical was produced as digital video rather than live stage performance, including a tangible audience interactive kit for audience participation at home. The actors and creative ... -
Cooperative Design in Digital Games for Social Closeness
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)In Abyss, a 3D digital game, the gameplay aims to invoke cooperation among the players to help them experience the emotional ties formed by overcoming challenges. These challenges are the basis of how humans can have ... -
Out of the Darkness: Defining the Three Eras of Film Noir
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)This thesis explores the role of Film Noir in American Cinema. It specifically defines Film Noiras a genre and explores its evolution and effect on American Cinema. This definition will beproved utilizing elements of film ... -
Designing the Future: Diegetic Sculpture & Literary Adaptation in Speculative Fiction Cinema
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2021)esearched the topic of cinema design from conception to post-production. In making shortfilms, I tried to answer fundamental questions about the construction of digital narrative environments: How can sculptural practices ... -
No parent left behind: a UX research and design project
(University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2017)This two-phased thesis project, which included user research and usability testing and design of a user experience, sought to increase parent and guardian compliance to an online-based student information verification ... -
Web-based media for cross-cultural communication in asynchronous processes among international students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout
(University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2020)International students are important demographic in the US higher education, they make contribution to the financial health of many universities. Researches shows that international students are dealing with issues such ... -
Strategic brand dismemberment for successful reincarnation: disseminating cohesive brand ideas through systematic dispersal across media channels with transmedia storytelling
(University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2018)As the proliferation of ecommerce commoditizes a growing number of consumer product categories, companies, now more than ever, need to successfully communicate why their brand deserves consumer attention and patronage. A ...
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