Transcriptions and (a lot of) typing

Transcriptions are not strange to me. A critical part of my creative writing process is writing by hand my new ideas, because the process of writing in paper and the lack of distractions inside the pages of my notebooks foster my creativity. The computer comes in when I need to edit (and publish) my texts,…

Creepos everywhere

Third assignment for the Animation class – ITP Fall 2017 Made in Unreal Engine. Characters designed on Fuse CC and animated in Mixamo. Making of… Making projects in Unreal is not that hard, but requires a good enough system to run properly without crashing or experiencing several lag. It is pretty intuitive to use and…

everyday_windows

Final project for Physical Computing & ICM – ITP Fall 2017. Ilana Bonder & Nicolás Peña-Escarpentier Github repository | Link (will work on making a full web-only version soon) Sexism, harassment, abuse… They all have been historically regarded as personal issues, relegating them from the public discussion, and diverting attention of their status as sociopolitical…

We are all trapped in Macondo

Second assignment for the Animation class – ITP Fall 2017 Representation of some passages in the book “Cien años de soledad” (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez. Making of… I wanted to represent some key passages of the book “One Hundred Years of Solitude”: – The beginning, where Aureliano Buendía remembers the…

extra

Extra is an interactive conceptual exhibition piece. It combines a newspaper with sensors and projection mapping of news media to generate a reflection about media bombardment and the role of information.

Dinoseed

Dinoseed, in collaboration with Sandy Hsieh and Hau Yuan. Making of… We wanted to create a video that created surprise and wonder, while exploring different effects that stop motion enables. Getting the seed pack out of the screen was one of such effects. To defy people’s expectations, we made a dinosaur appear out of the…

Lose yourself in your own sound space

For this assignment, we had to implement external sound or video into our sketches. I wanted to go with sound manipulation/analysis, because it is something I haven’t done in coding. At the same time, I was getting very inspired when coding while listening to the Soundtrack from Final Fantasy XV and how sometimes you just…

A 3D experience about experiences

TL;DR: see the assignment or the code Learning three.js The documentation is good, and the examples on the web make it easy enough to learn how to use it, at least for the basic stuff. Setting it up To set the three.js canvas, we need to set up the scene, camera and renderer. In this…

The bones of the future (of a robot)

I shot for the Sun and got burned at the atmosphere Initial idea For this assignment we had to mount a motor into something, anything! From the content of the class, I already had something in mind: I wanted my own BB8! I mean, come on, look at them, they’re adorable! ?