Week 5 - VR Concepts Project 1

Hey all, hope you’re hanging in there! I’m gonna be sorry forever for being MIA all the time - it’s already the 5th week into this Spring term and I’m getting CRUSHED. To be honest I had originally planned on making a deep post about the wonders of exploring and using VIRTUAL REALITY weeks ago: I’ve resigned to show just one of the projects I wrapped up recently.

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Cool, more spaceships. I’ve done a few iterations of “3d models into concept painting” ships before. What’s special this time? This is the first time I tried that initial step in VR - using Gravity Sketch with the Oculus Rift. This semester I hopped onboard a recently added VR CONCEPTS class taught by Patrick Hanenberger, and as was allowed to borrow a headset from school to fulfill this ‘educational need’ of mine. I’m reworking the previous post I mentioned with more details and explanations, but the gist of it was that it was a big investment and troubleshooting quest to get my setup workable with VR.

 

These above images were grabbed from within the headset while using Gravity Sketch.

 
 

Importing the model into Blender for some lighting set up before painting.

 

I was going pretty stir crazy and demotivated with regards to schooling, especially now that we’re nearly at the year mark from when that mess began. I was desperately looking for some kind of change in environment, and thankfully VR technology has shown me a pretty unique experience so far.

Happy Lunar New Year and Happy Valentine’s everyone! You’ll hear from me again soon!

Post-Term Spring Update

Hey there!

Before I say anything else! I hope more than anything that you are well and safe! I think we can all agree 2020 can use a breather; moving furiously and quickly, it’s like life itself has been upset for the past four months.

If I haven’t lived it I wouldn’t have believed that four months have gone by so quick. Another semester at ArtCenter has come and gone, and I have the fruits of my recent labor to share!

If you mosey on over to the Coureworks section of the site you’ll find a the new row of content from each of the recent studio classes I’ve taken - below and to the right you can see at a glance at some of what’s added: like my completed presentation deck for Entertainment Graphics, and a page grab from Costume Design. The content’s password locked, but feel free to reach out to me for access - I want nothing more on this site than to share the work I create in my life, and if I could hear from you and your interest to see it that in itself would mean absolute the world to me!

Design for the Wolf from The Three Little Pigs

Design for the Wolf from The Three Little Pigs

Imaginary Landscape Painting “Picking Flowers”

I’m just really happy my loved ones are well and that we still have a roof overhead and food to consume. Quarantine hit right after the spring midterms at ArtCenter, and it really knocked me off my game. I think getting cut off from the outside world and being relegated to a digital screen cause me some mental duress, among other things. Casually broke my back from overworking. (lul what?!) I hit 29 last Tuesday during finals though. And I was really thankful to be able to celebrate it over hot pot with just my parents and girlfriend. She bought me an ice cream cake too. I haven’t had a slice of those since middle school! What I’d like to say is this - really be careful about how you want to approach life, so you can keep guarded, and also just really appreciate all the things you can be thankful for. Cause lawd knows shit can really hit the fan sometimes.

I’m rambling. Come back around sometime. Again, I hope you continue to stay well and safe.
Cheers!