DH | Digital Heritage Exhibition Design: Red Plum Pavilion Again🌺

For Assignments 4 and 5 in DH_Fa23, I decided to continue expanding my topic in A3 and create a digital exhibition for the Red Plum Pavilion.

In Maya, I constructed a venue in the shape of a plum blossom. I allocated each of the five petals of the plum blossom to four rooms and one main entrance. The position of the plum blossom’s pistil serves as a central pillar, narrating its history.

I initially attempted to design its layout on Cuttle XYZ, assigning each room its intended content. Additionally, I used my feet and height to determine the scale of the walls and floors, as well as the information to be displayed on them.

After having the basic plan, I started to do my work:

Info Research: 

Ground/Wall Building:

Integration of Info to Pics: (I did most of this part on Procreate):

Attach Pics to Walls:

Step 1: Lambert-color-file-drag and attach

Step 2: UV Automatic and Modified UV Points and Coverage… 3D Chair in the Video Room (basically a small extruded concrete version of the ground):

Video Embedded:

3D Characters and Archway:

Step 1: PNG Photos converted and expand with pics with paths in Adobe Illustrator

Step 2: Import Ai files to Maya —— Planer ——Convert NURBS to Polygons

Lighting:

Logo:

(An integration of the plaque of the pavilion and the Skyview of the digital exhibition)

Possible Souvenirs:

Plum ring/necklace/keychain/earrings/hairband/pins… of this pattern:

Plum umbrella of this pattern:

Entrance Ticket & wristband:

Adhesive tape：

Demo Video and Effect Sketches of the digital exhibition:

 

Working Progress Photos:

Takeaways (Suggestions from Prof. Chen):

Try to make it a bigger/open space

Play with the separate petals

Change the texture of walls (e.g. Glass)

I will try to work on them during winter vacation. Tks!