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Advanced and Experimental 3D Computer Animation Techniques Sessions with Serra

Week 10: Final Project Showreel

Interactive digital installation “Beneath” is a project about inner world which hides underneath the mask. While creating it, we were thinking about people mental health and personalities a lot. This made us realize that every single one of us has something that we do not show to others.

In technical term, this project was a big challenge for us, as we were doing it in Touch Designer. We had a few workshops about this software, but we did not study it. Thus, we had to watch a lot of tutorials and ask Google a lot of things. Every step was almost done with blind fold on our eyes, as we were never sure in the outcome. We had meetings every week for 5 hours straight to make everything work. While it was one of the biggest challenges we faced, I am very proud of the final outcome.

We had a lot of fun doing this project. It was entirely new experience for me and, thanks to our team, I am very gratefull I had an opportunity to create such an amazing project.

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Week 9: Randomization of Coral Riffs

Serra recommended to randomize growth of coral riffs when they are activated:

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Week 8: Coral Riffs and Background

Here is a model of coral riffs. It is activated by the fist gesture.

Coral Riff
tried some funny effects for motion trail of Sparky

Here is the system of the background video, rendered in UE5:

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Week 7: Project Statement

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Week 6: Sparky and WooHoo

In order to make an interactive animation we used Mediapipe.

Here is the model of Sparky. It is activated by the open palm gesture.

Here is the model of WooHoo. It is activated by the peace sign gesture.

Sparky
WooHoo
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Week 5: Sound Effects

For this week my assignment was to find different sound effects of the sea.

I found several asset libraries:

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/ocean
https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects/sea
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Week 4: Reference Board

Here is our Miro Board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVHZW9mRk=/?share_link_id=873806973767&fbclid=PAVERFWASgF5dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacrXZiP_ven5JmVRpGeDJR7y1LwZ9-P1-YsGIG23O3t8WerGO2jDDCFymS9kA_aem_lhJ5XKb4dVukQ7nqPcwv7w

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Creature (look and action)

Sparky
WooHoo
Coral Riff

Schedule:

Here is feedback from Serra:

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Week 3: Forming a Group

It appears that some of my classmates have similar ideas to mine. Thus, we decided to form a group of 4 people: Chi-Chih, Mary, Seiya and me. We have been discussing some ideas and decided that we will probably use Touch Designer to create an interactive animation.

We were thinking about creating some objects/creatures which would react to the arms movement and speed. We are going to create a reference board for the next session to have clearer vision. Here is our plan for the next week:

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Week 2: Forming an Idea

I continue to think about the project and search for inspiration. I remember going to the immersive exhibition once in Moscow, I believe it was created based on Japanese exhibition which I find extremely fascinating. It was an amazing experience, visiting it myself and to be able to interact with the environment.

Maybe I would like to create something like this: immersive experience.

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Week 1: Introduction to Brief/Unit

This week Serra introduced 2 briefs. We have to choose 1 of them for our final project for this unit.

First brief is to select one instrument/function and to explore it.
Second brief explores photogrammetry as a critical and creative tool to map the layered realities
of London’s boroughs. This one also includes financing from university.

For now, I am sticking to the Brief 1. I like the idea that I could choose literally anything to do.