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SOAD-N130 Digital Imagery · 2020

Good needs bad to exist.

My take on the yin and yang: a rotating clockwork that illustrates the Daoist idea that for one thing to exist (the good), another must co-exist (the bad).

Role
Creator · Designer
Type
Individual · Academic
Course
Digital Imagery
Toolkit
Photoshop · Illustrator · Motion
Yin Yang animated GIF

The idea

The parallels felt right for a rotating yin-yang. On the left (the good), the garden of Eden; on the right, hell. Each panel is a deliberate contrast to the other — which is exactly the narrative the symbol asks for.

The rotation is the point: neither half ever gets to stand alone.

Craft

Two illustrated panels composited into a clockwork rotation and exported as a seamless loop.

Yin Yang — the loop
Yin Yang — the loop