Day one
Day one was the module introduction. I made a list of the things i needed to do to get my work done. They were
1- Create a blog/ journal
2- Reasearch on virtual art and virtual artists
3-Develop your own virtual art (Constantly recording it).
Ian Grant was the one to introduce us to the moudule. If you want an introduction to a complicated module Ian Grant is the one to give it to you. He’d shown us some examples on the screen and the one that stuck to my mind is his example of the Wii Stick rotating a 3d model teapot on Quarts composer, it was, fantastic!
I started dreamning up my idea at that point and lost touch with reality.
Came back briefly to take notes. He spoke of:
*Quartz composer and the Wii stick. Quartz is good for interactive virtual realtime work
*Darwin remote (open source technology that makes alot of things work,whatever that is)
*A data glove. Like the one on the movie minority report
Tom Cruise (the idiot!) used.
*Motion (the software) or Motion builder in Maya
THE IDEA
So I started dreaming this up after seeing the Wii on Quarts composer. I modeled a mans face on 3D Studio Max and I was going to hand it in for another module called Interactive Gameplay Design but, it wasn’t quite finished. In actual fact I was trying to fail that module to retake it in summer so I could hand in the modeled face but by some miracle (thats right) I passed the thing. By the skin of my teeth.
So I was thinking……………………………………………..if I modified this model I could use it for virtual space..
Using the Oprah sound track from the film House of flying daggers- a beautiful song- I could use it to irritate the modeled face. The higher the note the older and more irritated the face and the lower or softer the note the less irritated and calmer and younger the face. A lot of work, that would involve modeling to help me improve my skills and knowledge on 3Ds max. A man in pain from a beautiful song sang by a woman.
So I was looking for a digital artist that used sound.
Ian mentioned an exhibition called a The sonic bed which was a bed that had speakers in bedded in it and so on. Got the details and shot there straight away in three days time.
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