{"id":34146,"date":"2024-12-10T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muse.international\/?p=34146"},"modified":"2024-12-11T02:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T02:54:09","slug":"interview-with-yihua-li-from-vtubing-to-cgi-a-multi-faceted-media-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muse.international\/index\/interview-with-yihua-li-from-vtubing-to-cgi-a-multi-faceted-media-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Yihua Li: From VTubing to CGI, A Multi-Faceted Media Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yihua Li, a media artist, VTubing enthusiast, illustrator, and CGI specialist, creates across games, products, films, and CGI. Instead of a fixed visual style, Li focuses on narrative and the evolving content behind technology. Media, for them, serves as a metaphor for human agency and perspective in navigating the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q1. Please give us a brief bio of yourself and your design background.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m Cory (Yihua Li), a Chinese-American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a media artist, VTubing enthusiast, illustrator, and CGI specialist, my work takes many forms: games, products, films, and CGI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not an artist with a specific visual style, but rather focus on narrative and the emerging content behind technology itself. I love to perceive media as a metaphor for human perspective and agency in facing this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q2. What made you become\/why did you choose to become a designer\/artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I identify more as an artist because, while design may have many rules and methodologies, no one dares to define what art is. I enjoy organizing my understanding of the world and people through art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q3.Tell us more about your business\/company, job profile and what you do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project began as a final assignment for my course at New York University, but I saw great potential in it and spent about four months refining and developing it into a larger project. Wendy, a pole dancer, helped solve the motion capture aspects for pole dancing. As I gradually improved the code and initial CG concept, we reached out to Reraner Yetong Xin from Harvard CAM Lab\/Refik’s studio to join us. I collaborated with her on the dance CG portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire process was truly remarkable. I never imagined this project could become a reality or that I\u2019d have the opportunity to collaborate with such talented individuals. It’s been an amazing journey\u2014from a university assignment to a fully realized project with multiple collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q4. What does ‘design’ mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design, to me, means gaining insight into the needs of the design subject, logically integrating those insights, and creating a narrative. For our project, design involves understanding the background and characteristics of pole dancing as a dance form, the dancer’s choreographic ideas and challenges, and creating an appropriate context to address or solve these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q5. What’s your favorite kind of design and why?<\/strong>
In terms of results, I prefer designs that are clear and simple, yet offer infinite possibilities when people interact with them. This type of design is more like a social experiment than a definitive solution. It can highlight certain issues non-verbally and provoke thought, perhaps in the realm of speculative design or design futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of process, I hope the design carries a strong humanistic touch. It should take into account the feelings of all stakeholders, based on a thorough understanding of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poespin-Wherever your body reach, there is a poetry<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Read more about this interview<\/a> with Ronnie Lin, the Founder and Designer of AI Smart Space System, the Gold Winner of the 2024 MUSE Design Awards.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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