#exploration 3

Here is an edited glitched version of a video for our Unity project.

I do not really know what is the stage and how the final piece looks like at the moment. There are huge problems with communication between our group members. Obaid, that uploaded the Unity file (suppossedly) somewhere did not really shared the link to it. Or I am just too blind to find it in our google drive folder. Nevertheless, project is posted somewhere either on John’s or Obaid’s dev blogs that I also cannot find on the canvas so I hope they turned out super fine.

REFELCTION

This is so far the weakest explorations of all. Starting from a technological difficulty and ending on a group work. Beta Software to use as your main tool for creating projects like this was hell to work with. Not intuitive, not good to do anything, always crashing or not doing what it is suppossed to do.

As far as working with kinects was interesting - it is a dying medium, no longer produced and no longer used. Very wonky captures looked like fun but in the end all the effort was not really worth it.

I was not in class, when finally all of my team members get into the same room. Apparently they changed initial concept I suggested completely.

We only have one and a half week left to do this project. My team decided that they want to do a small horror game in which player walks in the dark place towards light. WHen it gets closer a sudden capture of our scary faces appears in front of her along with a scream or some sort scary, loud noise.

I have to say that I am not all excited about it. It sounds good but taking into consideration the skill all team members possess and the time given I don’t think we can pull it off until deadline. It’s just one and a half week left with other courses to do as well.

We shall see.

At least what is good is that they managed to capture some nice scenes of scaring as you can see.

Today we start our Exploration 3 project!

Only 3 people of our 5 people team showed up though so we had to work it out just between us. We were brainstorming what memories, ghosts and all that actually means to us and how it can be translated onto the volumetric video.

The Assignment:

Using any existing social networking system that relies on user generated content (i.e Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, Flicker, Instagram, YouTube, Blogger, Digg, Disqus, Pandora, etc.), create a thoughtful "intervention" that redirects, re-purposes, re-imagines, or reshapes the original intent of the system in a uniquely poetic, personal and artistic way.

My Solution:

"Negative space can be used to depict a subject in a chosen medium by showing everything around the subject but not the subject itself." --wikipedia

An "Anti-Portrait" of sorts...

Rule #1: never refer to myself directly (I, me, mine) or indirectly (she, her, that woman.)

Come meet my alter ego: Iam InSilhouette  (Bfghjmpqsuvwxz)

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