Class of 2020
My Exercise: Exercise Reflection: My experience with the tutorial was overall not that satisfactory. I found that the two-hour exercise was not fit for beginner creators like me. I had to learn about all of the other controls and features on my own in other tutorials or online forums. The video was too fast-paced, and… Read more Week 5: Cinema 4D Exercise
My Response and Insights: To me, watching Blaise Agüera’s TED Talk on Photosynth was in all very eye-opening in various ways. It was really amazing how Photosynth was able to take image-based rendering of 2 Dimensional photographs and turn them into 3 Dimensional models or “synths” without any 3D data. What was even more eye-opening… Read more Week 4: Photosynth and Image-Based VR
Google Drive Link w/ Turnaround Files: Click Here Reflection: For this turnaround exercise, I chose to continue down my path with Alex the ghost, but due to the feedback and lessons of last week’s lecture, I decided to simplify the design. I focused more on the use of geometrical shapes and minimized the use of… Read more Week 4: Character Turnaround
My impressions of the assignments were very good. I truly admire it when a professor does not repeat content and material from years before, which is why I loved how each year, there was a fresh new topic and theme for each assignment. I could also easily observe, just how far VR has come in… Read more Week 3: VR Project Thoughts
Spider-Man VR: The spider man VR experience was a bit frustrating overall, but perhaps, It is I who was not familiar with the controls. I, playing as Peter Parker must swing across New York City in order to defeat a robot enemy downtown, all this with minimal understanding of the controls. When I was swinging… Read more Week 3: VR Review 2