My first prototype will be a sketched out or physical model of my piece. This will be important for planning my next prototype so that I can successfully organize how the physical and digital aspects will affect the animation. That’s the main goal for this prototype–to get a handle on the interaction between the two mediums and how the display will make use of the space.
My second will be a storyboard of not only the animation aspects, but how that will include the physical model (similar to what I said in the above). I hope to maybe not finalize completely, but have a good base for my story and get feedback from my classmates and alum adviser. I may do several versions.
My third prototype will be actually building a hologram for my phone. If I can do that, then I know I can scale my project up. This will include building the physical device, as well as producing a simple holographic video I can use to test. This will most likely be an animation created by following the tutorial I found last week. I’m excited to see how this will turn out!
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Yes! Definitely get a feel for creating a smaller scale hologram to make your life easier next semester when you’re building it for real. What are you going to show in the hologram for the prototype? I would definitely recommend modeling a forrest scene and incorporate some of the data visualization we talked about (it doesn’t have to be super polished or anything) since 3D modeling and the physical computing aspects are the most important, it’s better to run into problems and challenges now than next semester at the last minute. After I wrote the script and storyboarded my project, I took a 5-10 chunk and made that as a prototype (full 3D animation, audio design, dialogue, and VR interaction). Granted, it was a lot of work but I already had a strong foundation for next semester plus I had a really good idea on what was gonna work and what I needed to work on. I think you’re off to a good start but I want to challenge you even further. Maybe take ONE fact (so you don’t go entirely crazy lol) about deforestation and create a small chunk of animation illustrating that one fact and use that for on your hologram, that way you get exposed to every aspect of your project beforehand and spend all next semester scaling up and polishing it. I’m getting real excited for this project!
Thank you for the comment! For the hologram prototype I was thinking of doing a quick 2D animation/animatic to test how it would look, or a simple forest model to project onto the screen. I’ve changed my idea slightly and decided to incorporate 2D animation into it as well, as I’m far more comfortable with that medium when it comes to animating complex things. As soon as I get my Arduino kit, I’ll work on a prototype for the physical computing part!
Yes! Definitely get a feel for creating a smaller scale hologram to make your life easier next semester when you’re building it for real. What are you going to show in the hologram for the prototype? I would definitely recommend modeling a forrest scene and incorporate some of the data visualization we talked about (it doesn’t have to be super polished or anything) since 3D modeling and the physical computing aspects are the most important, it’s better to run into problems and challenges now than next semester at the last minute. After I wrote the script and storyboarded my project, I took a 5-10 chunk and made that as a prototype (full 3D animation, audio design, dialogue, and VR interaction). Granted, it was a lot of work but I already had a strong foundation for next semester plus I had a really good idea on what was gonna work and what I needed to work on. I think you’re off to a good start but I want to challenge you even further. Maybe take ONE fact (so you don’t go entirely crazy lol) about deforestation and create a small chunk of animation illustrating that one fact and use that for on your hologram, that way you get exposed to every aspect of your project beforehand and spend all next semester scaling up and polishing it. I’m getting real excited for this project!
Thank you for the comment! For the hologram prototype I was thinking of doing a quick 2D animation/animatic to test how it would look, or a simple forest model to project onto the screen. I’ve changed my idea slightly and decided to incorporate 2D animation into it as well, as I’m far more comfortable with that medium when it comes to animating complex things. As soon as I get my Arduino kit, I’ll work on a prototype for the physical computing part!