Jessica Ziegenbein

Pengu's Adventure

Pengu's Adventure is a third-person mini-game, in which the little protagonist Pengu has to find his way back home on the lonely ice floes. Can you help him and bring him back to his family with a full stomach?
The game was developed in May 2022 using Unity. In the process, I not only took on the task of the game developer, but also that of the 3D modeler, the level designer, the 3D animator and the game programmer.

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Roots against Humanity

For the international Global Game Jam Event 2023, the game was developed in a team of another 3 fellow students within 48 hours. The theme of the event was "Roots" and you play the apprentice of the great witch Atropia, whose life is dedicated to saving nature. You will learn how to take care of plants, grow them and crossbreed to obtain plants with the characteristics you need.
But something feels off... what is the true goal of your teacher?

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The Royal Dance Club

What does an exclusive extravagant dance bar on Hamburg's Reeperbahn look like? This question inspired to create the 3D model of the Royal Dance Club. With a large and elegant bar, many different colorful lights, as well as with characteristic leather armchairs I implemented the idea of such a club. The creation was done in December 2021 with the 3D modeling program Maya. It was the first 3D modeling I had done with Maya at that time and shows my attention to detail very well. While working on the Club I found that I really enjoy 3D modeling, so I am looking forward to more 3D modeling projects in the future.

The Penguin Pengu

For the game "Pengu's Adventure" I modeled and textured the little protagonist Pengu in the shape of a penguin.
Likewise, I brought the character to life by rigging it and then animating it. I completed both tasks in the 3D modeling program Maya in 2022.

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Toxic

Toxic is a 2D Typokinect animation for the hit song of the same name "Toxic" by Britney Spears. It acts as supporting video footage and covers the first 45 seconds of the song. The animation was created using Adobe After Effects in February 2022. In the process, I was able to learn a lot about the handling of the software, as well as elementary things in the field of 2D animation.

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AR poster

This five-part augmented reality poster series was designed around the theme of "emotions". The posters were created using Adobe Indesign and Illustrator and represent the five basic human emotions:
Joy, love, sadness, fear and anger.
For the animation layer, the program Artivive Bridge was used, which is an augmented reality platform for art. I created the animation itself with Adobe After Effects and each animation should represent the changeability of each emotion.

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Animation for Pengu

For my third-person minigame "Pengu's Adventure" I also developed animations for the protagonist Pengu.
These are an idle animation, a walking animation and a jumping animation, in which the little Pengu flaps his wings.

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Jamstack Website

In the course of a year-long project at the Harz University of Applied Sciences, I was given the opportunity as project leader, together with a team of seven other fellow students, to convert the website of our degree program Medieninformatik.de which had previously been running dynamically via Wordpress, into a statically generated Jamstack website.
The project is ongoing and is expected to be completed in July 2023.

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Your day planner

The 'Your day planner' app gets rid of the chaos in your head with all the tasks for today and disposes them bundled in its smart to-do list.
The app offers you a todo list connected to a database, a calendar function in which you can enter your appointments and keep an eye on them, but also a productivity timer, with which you can check how productive you were working today!

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Java Movie database

The Java movie database program is used for the management of movies, in which it is possible to add, change, delete or simply sort movies. The user interface was programmed by JavaFX and a connection to a MariaDB database was established.
The program has been implemented through a REST interface so that changes can be made to both components independently, without affecting the other component.

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