Week 4: VR Video Showcase



Week 4: For this week, the class was finishing up our first medium for this class. For my group, it was the Virtual Reality painting. In these last few weeks, we have created two major projects. The first was the community garden in which we as a group created our own plots of land with our own made-up plants, VR versions of real plants, and a landscape of our own design and choosing. The second project was a cityscape in which comprised of each of us creating three buildings that were of differing purposes, styles, and designs. However, the caveat was that they had to be of a single color and its many tints and hues as well as a small amount of its complimentary color. After that we were to create a thirty second video showcasing our creations. See the videos above.

Craft: For the craft, we used the following equipment: VIVE Virtual Reality Headset, Tilt Brush by Google, a Mac computer, Adobe Premiere, Abode Media Encoder CC, GarageBand, and a flash drive. For the actual construction of the VR paintings, we used the VIVE headset comprising a headset, two hand controllers and a large space along with the painting software, Tilt Brush. Using the software, we created three buildings and a garden with ten plants, five real and five fake plants. After that, we used the in-software capturing device to record clips which in turn were edited into two videos you see above to allow the viewer to enter the 3D space.

Composition: I started off from last week with finishing the final touches in Tilt Brush. After that, it was a matter of recording a sequence of videos that showed the finished products in their entirety. Using the in-software capturing device, I recorded myself walking and exploring through the 3D virtual spaces of the two VR creations, Garden and Cityscape. Once I saved those videos onto a flash drive, I transferred them over to a Mac where I would do my editing. Transferring the files over to Adobe Premiere, a video editing software. There I edited the individual clips, leaving only the best segments to be spliced together. Once I had created the thirty second clips, I went into GarageBand and created a simple soundtrack using the various instrument presets. Once that was done, I spliced in the audio into the video. Exporting it on the highest quality possible through Adobe Media Encoder CC, the final product is the thirty second videos you see above. The videos are a detailed sequence of my portion of the projects. After all of that, I embedded the uploaded files onto this blog so that you can see the 3D models above which are the final result with all of our collaboration. 

Concept: The concept of these two videos was to encapsulate the ideas of self, space, and place. Creating the three buildings of various sizes and the various plants of different sizes was to induce a sense of differentiation between the viewer in the video and the actual space itself. The buildings and tree were a place, a location in which one, the self, was to enter the space. One would feel different in one location than they would another. The actual construction of the space in a 3D plane in Virtual Reality of the cityscape and garden made it much easier for the three themes to be shown. The two embedded models images are of the two projects which allows someone who cannot use the VR set to actually explore through the created worlds. With the videos and the virtual models bringing the viewer into and through the two major projects, the viewer can place themselves into that space that the artist had created, something unique that only 3D art can bring either in sculpture, location art, or in this case, Virtual Reality.

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