Wk 10/14: Some 6th Term Art Dump

Hey all! Just wanted to make a quick post and update about some of the work I have going on in my current classes. It’s nearing the end of another semester. Hang around ‘til the end for a nifty surprise!

On top of the normal workload, I’ve been prepping for my 6th Term Review under ACCD’s Ent. Design track. For those of you outside of ArtCenter, our semesters operate in a trimester ‘term’ system - what this means for me is that this is essentially my junior grade review, before I tackle the larger senior project and classes. To pass, I’ve compiled a complete body of all of the schoolwork I’ve done since re-entering ACCD in Spring of 2019 - a collection of over 400 pages, some of which isn’t even publicly shown or available on here yet! And it’s only going to be up for your viewership for a limited time. Here’s the link - if you are so inclined to scroll near-perpetually through this large library of art and design. And give me your thoughts down below in the comments if you did look through it, I need that engagement from you! :D

Take care, see you guys again soon!

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!