Project Info

Mask

Set Design

Film

Narrative Space

Date:
2020. 04
Location:
Shenzhen, China
Team:
Daaa Zhao, Tianxiao Chen, Pan Deng, and 8 Others
Instructor:
N/A
Role:
Set Designer

The short film is a story about a woman worker being laid off by a mask factory before the pandemic. To pay for her salary, the factory gave her 1 ton of masks, which were worth nothing before the pandemic. But later, the situation changed. Mask has become a hot barter for money and sexual resources.

Mask

The short film is a story about a woman worker being laid off by a mask factory before the pandemic. To pay for her salary, the factory gave her 1 ton of masks, which were worth nothing before the pandemic. But later, the situation changed. Mask has become a hot barter for money and sexual resources.

I am the set designer of this project.

Read Me

Daaa Zhao

My name is Daaa. You can call me Da or Daaaaaa, as many ‘a’ as you wish. This is a playable version of my name. My projects are usually cross-boundaries, and my skillset contains a wide range of stuff, from art to tech, from digital to physical. Majored in architecture, I continued to pursue my passion in both technology and creative process, working on projects in installation arts, augmented reality, interactive devices, game development, etc.

What I do

Interdisciplinary is precisely what I am good at. Every time the inspiration burst, in order to set the idea free from limits, I would learn some new skills to counter the challenge. Over time, I have broadened my skillset widely open, from art to tech, from reality to virtuality. Below is an axis graph to explain the Art-Tech/Digital-Physical coordinate of the skillsets used in my projects.

Gallery

Robot Knows

What if you run out of some ingredients when making a dish?

Sure, you can go out to purchase some. But also, you can choose to revise the recipe a little bit based on the foods in your hand; and please be proud of it, that's human intelligence. However, we are losing this intelligence after industrialization. Is it appropriate to cut every unique tree into the same board?

Installation Art
AI Generated

IDEAS AR

This is an AR treasure-hunting game.

There are secrets hidden in the IDEAS campus; could you find them? Scan the QR codes on any suspect surfaces, collect clues, and unlock your final reward!

AR
Interactive Exhibition

if (isMeaningful)
{
   MakeItMeaningful();
   MakeItFun();
}
else
{
   MakeItFun();
}

Time Travel Bandit

Unstable cracks are appearing.

It’s becoming easier for people to travel through time and space. Our character, Baaa, is a professional thief. Recently, he has started to make a living by traveling through time and space and stealing treasure.

Shader
Architecture

Sonarogue

Eyes covered. How to survive the dungeon? Use sonar!

This game is made solo in a two-week game dev challenge. It's a sonar-detect roguelike game. In this dungeon, your vision is taken, and your only ability is to use a sonar device. Play it online on itch.io!

Atmospheric
Minimalistic

Daaa's Horse

Just squeeze.

Soft Body
Interactive

Don't Let the Cat Sleep

Get up, kitty!

Robot Arm
Pet's Toy

Chinese Calligraphy

This is a 40-meter-long calligraphy scroll.

It took me three months to create, and I treated every stroke meticulously. With such an opportunity, each stroke is an examination and tempering of my heart and spirit.

Calligraphy Art
XXXL Scale

Wander Corgi VR

Wanna be a dog and leave pee-mails to others?

In this VR experience, you will become a corgi, waking up and finding your favorite toy lost in the city. Be a detective! Read the pee-mails left by your friends, and discover the clues.

Animal View
VR

Living Hybrid

An architectural manifesto.

The future of democratic design and growing architecture with the participation of the GANs. Every opinion matters; how can we take them into design consideration with the help of AI?

Architectural Design
Graphic Design

Mask

The pandemic is the best time of my life.

The short film is a story about a woman worker being laid off by a mask factory before the pandemic. To pay for her salary, the factory gave her 1 ton of masks, which were worth nothing before the pandemic. But later, the situation changed. Mask has become a hot barter for money and sexual resources.

Set Design
Short Film

Objects³ AR

An immersive exhibition, people run around to chase the artworks.

Instead of showing them renderings and videos, I created an AR app to let the jurors discover and chase the artworks they like. The Objects pop up like "Wild Pokémon" randomly, and the guests need to chase the items they are interested in to have a closer look.

AR
Digital Sculptures

Escape the Refrigerator

You are a piece of beef in the refrigerator.

A refrigerator is a locker people use to store food and other stuff. People can only see when they are trying to open the doors. Then what is happening in that? The outside atmosphere and the space in the refrigerator are two parallel worlds.

Unity 3D
Game Jam

Broken Architects

We are three broken architects.

This is our final chance to win the project, but we are out of budget. Why not rob some elements from our neighborhoods? Smash! Build! And do it over and over again! Design your own project! Enjoy the infinity!