Experiments come together In order to bring together all the content created over the last month, I created a short story teaser. It is a a “teaser”, because the motions I have from the labs are very diverse and not ideal for a continuous play. At the same time, as part of the explorations I…
Tag: animation
Physical ghosts and magic
For motion capture, the biggest barrier is the cost. We need expensive or mind-bogglingly expensive equipment in order to get detailed movement data. But this provides amazing opportunities! For the mocap software, un-suited people people are invisible, but can very much still affect the performers: we are ghosts. The magic of post-production I haven’t been…
Thinking about sex
The title should be more thinking about gender, but society has misused these terms so much that it is what we learn. Even worse, we just learn about the binary male-female or man/woman, when in reality spectrums exist across sex, gender, orientation, identity and more! It is really creepy how so many developers try to…
Jumping Sampler
For this sampling assignment, I decided I wanted to create something playful and relaxing. I drew inspiration from some indie games and decided to create a simple platformer where a small character would jump on different blocks to trigger some samples, while listening to a background base loop.
Peaceful waiting
For this project assignment, we have to create a simulation of a specific experience. My simulation proposal is a meditative waiting while attempting to feed a rabbit on a clear in the woods. Drawing of the scene Category & Questions to answer Waiting – “Simulate the experience of waiting. We spend most of our lives…
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…
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…
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…