#vrstory

[henryiswhy]

Multisensory Storytelling week 3

Notes on Blindness

I like how the project is divvied in two parts. It's let me think I should use this approach with my own interactive storytelling projects. Have a film in a VR space that user mainly watch and follow the director, than have a more free space that the viewer/user can play with. I think spatial audio was a big elements in the project, since the project itself is about "notes on blindness". The project have a stylized visual that is very simple, so that I can focus more on the sound.

Since I am in this class, I was thinking how can we add more interaction when we could use controller to add wind. I played with the wind for 15 mins, and I was keep waiting for new interactions or new sections, but I didn't saw any. I think this part is too long and should have a end to guide user to end the story.

Giant

I like how everything happened in a small space, so that I can focus more on their conversation. When I watch it, I have a lot of random thought, I guess because "the giant" never appears, I imagined it with other "Giants" I knew, Rubeus Hagrid from Harry Potter, Giants in GOT.

When the story line processing, some personal memory came up. With the sound, it let me find I am in a earthquake. When I was a child, a big earthquake happened in my hometown. It's not a horror film, it's a disaster film for me.

In The Eyes of The Animal

Reminds me nature of code. I don't really like the style of the value, I think it can be down in another way.

First draft of a pitch deck

Multisensory Storytelling in Virtual and Original Flavor Reality Final

Fungus among us

Mixamo

Finaly! I can dance with you!

Learning VR

This is a lot of information...

Sense Week 4:Feeling

It’s was a after-party, and my friends and I were playing a chat based board game named We're Not Really Strangers. Just like last week, when I first think about feelings, I was think about touch, or at least some movement. But with this board game, My friends and I really gets emotional, with the questions the game ask, we thinks about our past, and feels sad and happy with all kinds of memories.

Sometimes, we don’t need create a story or interaction let people have a strong feelings. We could guide them into some of their own memories.

[henryiswhy]

Multisensory Storytelling week 2

Group sound project.

Eric had the idea at the beginning when we form our group which is good so that we can finish the task ahead of time. We made a story about how two people were running late to a movie, and the finally catch up right before the movie starts.

Before we did our sound record, we made a sound list about which sound we want to record, and which sound we might find it online.

Then, we did the recording and sound editing.

There is the sound film:

Play around with Reality Capture, and Mixamo:

I was just play around with it first, than I made mistakes on construct my model, the first my model was included the whole space, and it took a lot of time to process the file. The second time my hair with cut off.

I was followed by a Chinese tutorial: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/89767851

And it works!

I had the problem people were having when I upload my fbx file to mixamo, will try to fix it later by follow Winslow's tutorial.

Sense journal

When I think about sound/hearing example, I was think a specific sound effect. But I went to a NYU office and found the image in the right. Think and examining the history of audio apparatuses, is as important as find a specific sound effect in my point of view. I feel people didn't pay much attention with audio apparatuses changes, but we knew the changes of cameras. I think how we recording and play the sound is very important especially in a XR project. Because the technology for sight is so advanced, we need modern sound recording and editing to match the visuals.

[henryiswhy]

Multisensory Storytelling week 1

Seeing —

I went to my friend also a current resident Cezar's art show this weekend, and it made me think about vision and how we view digital art. And when it's necessary to do it in VR?

The piece is made by Unreal and keep loop with three AI agents that have control of the camera movement. And these agents never likes super real, but the view or the environment they were walk though are pretty real to me. And these photos the artist captured made me think about landscape paintings. And with current technology, we can make these "painting like" in real time graphics.

The experience: I feel watch it was a very calm experience. My friend and I were talking about it might be very different experience if we can play it in VR. Because it's keep looping, I feel I don't need to have interaction with it. And there will always be new things I can view and explore.

Playing —

I have not buy a VR device yet. So I played/experienced the Pearl at ITP. I can't even renumber what's the last time I play with a VR project. So it's very fresh experience for me to play a VR piece. When I play/view the project, I don't know what's the "right" interaction I need to make. So that I just sit on my chair and watched the whole project. And it does feel different when I watch it in VR then watch it in 360 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCH4DNQBUA). Even it's a 2.5d animation, it feeling more immerse in a VR settings.

Learning —

The process is boring, but necessary.

[lawnmowermetaverse]

Storyboards for my animated VR short "PILOT" are finally done! - Swipe to see the basic sequence >> - Next phase will be to design this for VR. I'm going to plan but also leave room for creative discovery while working in Quill. If I'm lucky, I will find new methods for telling stories in VR! There's no deadline but I would be happy closing it by end of 2020. - #quillustration #quillvr #madeinvr #vrstory #vrnarrative #vranimation #vrpainting #hrgiger #spacejockey #alienpilot #scifi #cosmichorror #hplovecraft #alien2 #xenomorph #procreate https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BYlWRg1Fn/?igshid=q3zra9gx2z9y

[lawnmowermetaverse]

Storyboards for my animated VR short "PILOT" are finally done! - Swipe to see the basic sequence >> - Next phase will be to design this for VR. I'm going to plan but also leave room for creative discovery while working in Quill. If I'm lucky, I will find new methods for telling stories in VR! There's no deadline but I would be happy closing it by end of 2020. - #quillustration #quillvr #madeinvr #vrstory #vrnarrative #vranimation #vrpainting #hrgiger #spacejockey #alienpilot #scifi #cosmichorror #hplovecraft #alien2 #xenomorph #procreate https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BOpU7AvWO/?igshid=eqrcjicq68d1

[lawnmowermetaverse]

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Quillustrations are now available on Oculus TV on Oculus Quest! My “San Francisco House” was one of the first things I created in Quill. It really feels like you transport into a live painting. - If you have an Oculus Quest, make sure to update your Oculus TV app and install the Quill Theatre. - https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2515021945210953/ - #quillustration #madeinVR #vranimation #vrpainting #vrstory #oculusquest #oculusTV https://www.instagram.com/p/B557JLtgCE6/?igshid=1xtgvsnu4768w

[lawnmowermetaverse]

I created a detailed tutorial on how to sync puppeteered animation to audio in Quill. Posted over on my my YB, FB, and the Virtual Animation FB group. Its 30+ min of me breaking down the whole process. Hopefully it helps some peeps make crazy animations. . #quillustration #vranimation #madeinvr #vrstory #quillvr #facebookquill #vrpainting #tutorial #groove #gavinharrison #seveneight #oddtime https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ekjBKDOgd/?igshid=o6m71tnck20s

[lawnmowermetaverse]

“P I L O T” - Animated lighting and style test in Quill. . I'm switching gears and making my short story a VR experience. Phase 1 was planned to be a fully rendered movie. Quill’s new timeline has compelled me to design this story for VR and save 2D for phase 2. So, I’ve been testing styles (@artofmm inspired) and ways to animate painted light in Quill! The production time was way shorter than the rendered teaser trailer. Already a good sign. . #quillustration #vrnarrative #vranimation #vrstory #madeinvr #vrpainting #hrgiger #MikeMignola #alienpilot #scifi #cosmichorror #hplovecraft #alien2 #spacejockey #xenomorph #facebookquill https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UDQyQjwi6/?igshid=sawk39pyqn0v