ROBIN SILCOCK: Projection Mapping

Saturday, 10 December 2011

Artwork Produced for Projection Mapping Project.

Here are some of the concepts I drew up for our 'out of this world' themed Projection Mapping Show for NUCA. The term 'Re-volution' is to suggest the evolutionary state of these underwater creatures has been 're-defined'.

Original Drawings:

Our team affectionately named the above as "Roboctopus"

This image was create in GIMP 2.0, I scanned in the original sketch and adjusted the image so that I could use the sketch outline to colour in the fish - this made the process a lot quicker. The rough metal texture used is from
http://mayang.com/textures/Metal/images/Flat%20Metal%20Textures/scratched_metal_texture_5132552.JPG

I wanted the light blue channels on the fish to have a glow to them, suggesting an 'other worldly' power source. I am reasonably happy with this concept and would have liked more time to spend re-drawing and tweaking the design - however the cyber-fish effect is achieved overall I believe.

Friday, 25 November 2011

New Project, New Work Philosophy

No more procrastinating and worrying about how to balance my work. I will make myself a strict time line of 'mini deadlines' in order to properly achieve my potential in each project. Last 3 projects have been badly organised, un-evenly focused on and subsequently a disappointment to myself.

The 3D projection mapping project is a really interesting one. I have been looking into how we can include audience participation with our projection and found this interesting use of a microphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDThTaW1QA&feature=related

The noise created by a member of the audience into the microphone makes the animation on the building move, and people seem to find it fascinating!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMM-xukGjJw

This is another very interesting use of projection mapping to bridge the gap between reality and virtual. Something I have a strong personal interest in. An accelerometer device is used like a wii remote in order to control the player in game.

Robin Silcock

I am a Second Year Games Art and Design student at Norwich University of the Arts. After exploration of a number of roles in my first year, I am now looking to graduate as a 3D Artist with applicable skills in Maya, Mudbox, ZBrush and Photoshop. I understand that my skills in this field are not there yet - but I aim to achieve this goal through consistently working through the programs in my University and Personal Projects. I love to be busy - I have always had a lot of things on my plate since the age of 7 where I successfully balanced school with Ballet, Tap, Horse-Riding, French, Piano and Singing Lessons! In the same fashion, my university schedule is just as hectic and varied; I am a Peer Mentor to first year students, Student Rep for Second Year, and President of the Enterprise Society. Like I said, I love to be busy! I am a Games Hippie - so to speak - I believe that Games if designed and harnessed in the right way, will be able to help solve many of the global issues we have today - even if it starts off in a small way. Just look at the positive effects that Facebook and Twitter have already had... When navigating my blog;

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