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BigLeds W1 Video Wall of Mandalorian

The big led video wall used in Virtual Production.

Cylinder LED screen with roof，270 degree，75 feet in circumference and 20 feet high

Function:

to show the virtual scene /light in real time.

to let the director/photofgraphy/producer know the real time effect of filmmaking.

Properties and qualities：

It can show very detailed light and shadow changes without scattered light spots.

（I am wondering how to make sure that technically.

I checked out the video wall  company’s website （https://www.unilumin.com/ ）and there are lots of products. I am confused about how can we choose the suitable one.How do we read the technical parameters.

W7VPD-character introduction

My character is a cyberpunk girl whose half body has been transformed to robot.

The last shot, I hope she smiles evilly.But I ran into some problems with facial capture.

The next scene is a bridge explosion, my character successfully escaped from prison with the help of her pet Dobby.

 

 

This is another shot I made, but I found it’s not suitable to be in the character introduction. 

 

Problems I met,

I got this character in market place and I really loved it!But she is not easy to use.

1.Her hair and skeleton are two arts and I finally cannot make her hair move with the animation.I tried to grout them / merge the actor/ and explored animation blueprint.

Wondering how can I do that ?

2.The format of this character is “uasset”.Google told me how to change them into “fbx”.But when I imported it into blender, it disappeared.I thought it maybe became a very very tiny character.

_________________👇not a problem below

3.I explored lots of assets in marketplace and other website(Sketchfab,Free 3D,Turbosquid,Unity Asset store) and I found that most of them are not real enough. Quixel bridge indeed has the best quality.

One interesting thing:

I got my desktop 5 days before and I only used it for VPD.Now it storage shows like this.😁Maybe I downloaded too much assets.

W4-VPD Temple

 

I want to make a temple scene this week.

After I have downloaded lots of materials from bridge,I finally found that the Bridge cannot export to my unreal.

With Todd’s help,I tried different version of Unreal and several kinds of plugin.My Unreal crashed a hundred times/::< and I spent a long long time . Finally failed.

hhh…I have 3 version of Unreal now,but it still didn’t work.

Actually ,I think I learnt a lot from this problem-solving process and I want to document them.

I knew how to install plugin now(I didn’t know anything about plugins before），and I’m much more familiar with Unreal file’s structure now, because I checked them maybe a thousand times.I started to learn how to ask for help.I used to be too shy to do that.Really thanks for Todd and Yongkun’s suggestion. 

 

 

My final solution is that I downloaded materials from the Bridge and imported them to Unreal from the folder manually.It’s kind of complex.And my friends also suggested me to try some models in sketchfab.

I got the buddha, some buildings, bushes and beautiful red door there and reorganized them.

I also got some sculptures and Japanese temple stuff from Bridge.

Finally ,I got my temple.

 

 

Video here:Tina in the Temple.

play with light

 

I also play with camera for a while and I think I need more time to learn more about them.

 

 

W3-PCOMP

My Project Plan

I want to make a pumpkin lamp for this coming Halloween, because I really want to have a pumpkin lamp when I was a child, but I have never had one. This time I want to make one with light and scary tone.

I plan to use photoresistance to control the bulb or big LED in it on/off.

And I tried photoresistance and LED this week.

And I also want to use a sensor of distance to control the scary tone of my pumpkin lamp.When it’s approaching to a person/or sth, the tone become higher and louder.

 

Actually,I really want to make a coke piano like this one.But it seems too difficult for me now.I would like to spend some time trying to find out whether I can make a simple one.

LAB

I had lots of problems in TONE OUTPUT lab this week and I am going to go to someone to ask for help.

1st

 I copied and pasted the code on the website.It showed like this, the first one worked ,but the second one not.

2nd I tried to change the number after map(),the second one work ,but it’s kind of different.

A more complex example-automatic tone

I tried this and it worked well.

A Musical Instrument

I didn’t know what happened to this one, it’s just didn’t work anyway.

Servo motor control

W1-Preparation for Virtual Production

At first,I watched the videos in Chinese,and I found it’s not a good idea.It will confuse me some vocabularies. Then I changed the system language to English.（The study records are still show in Chines, sorry for that.）

I prepared my mac pro 2017 but it didn’t run well.It started to heat up soon.

Then I borrowed a Window PC from my friend which is completely empty.I will get it today later and use it this semester.

Alienware area-51M 17.3inch

 

ICM-W1

I want to apply computation to storytelling and virtual production.  

1)I’m very interested in narrative computation.I worked as a screenwriter for several years and when I wrote scripts(especially Chinese soap opera scripts),I realized that most work are repetitive and uncreative after we built the whole story structure.I hope to explore a way to write scripts with computation.Then some screenwriters can become creative writers and others are replaced by computer.That means,scriptwriters only responsible for the creative parts after computer write basic ones.

At present,some studios have used computation to evaluate scripts.That’s why I believe it’s a feasible way,based on Structuralism Script-writing method(my script writing professor YangJian) and through machine learning(I’m not familiar with machine learning yet).

2)I care about virtual production.I knew that now in film-making area,directors can see actors performing in virtual scenes directly now.It’s a great progress in film-making area.I’m thinking about whether it’s possible to product these virtual scenes through computation.Then it will be cheaper as well as more convenient.I want to have a try.

After I read the Inspiration-ITP,

3）I’m in to Renaissance – 2006 animated film and Animations for ITV2 British TV Channel. I also want to have a try in this kind of film-making.

4)Subway Desertsalso arouse my interest.

I recently noticed a phenomenon，

Food delivery industry is developing so fast in China and we can get out our food within 28mins. Computer algorithms are constantly optimizing the time that food must be delivered and the deliver-person will be punished if they won’t arrive before their deadline.The problem is, in pursuit of speed, they will cause a lot of road safety problems.Meanwhile customers know nothing about that and are still very strict with the delivery time.

I hope to make a visual map similar to the “Subway Desert” to make people aware of the severity of the road safety problem caused by this phenomenon.

5）I will spend more time on Future of Storytelling, .

And I’m going to explore more possibilities I haven’t thought of now.

My first p5.js drawing

Step1,I decided to draw my lovely little tiger,which is an image that my partner and I like to use as signature.

 

Step2,I drew a sketch.(I don’t know how to make it more like my little tiger above.)

ICM-W1

I met two problems here,

1)I want to use arc to show the ear,but I don’t know how to rotate it to the angle I want.Then I decided to use circle instead.

2)About “moustache” part, I failed to use curve properly,then I use ellipse instead.

Step3,I colored my little tiger.

ICM-W1

In the whole process,I have several questions.

1)How to rotate “arc” and “ellipse”? (I’m going to google it later.)

2)How to use curve properly? I have read the reference,and it’s hard to figure out the exact meaning of the numbers.

3)It’s hard to find the exact place that I want to draw on the canvas and I tried to change the numbers over and over again.Is there any smarter ways?

4)How to change the value of RGB to make the color brighter? For example,I want to have a bright turquoise circle,but I find it too dark.How to change the value of G and B to make it brighter?I found that increasing the value of G and B can make it brighter.I want to know if it suitable for all situations?

And stood awhile in thought

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