By Larissa Urbiks For my final project, I wanted to hide the 360-camera with a nadir. Since there was no video on Lynda.com that could help me, I looked for it on YouTube and found this one: To patch a nadir in a 360 video, the first step is to design the nadir. I used Adobe Photoshop to do that and opened up a new file with 1000 x 1000 pixel. I created three different layers, one of them was a transparent background layer. It’s very important that the nadir...
Assignment 8: Photogrammetry
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Assignment 7: Final Project Pitch
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Assignment 6: Using Mixamo and Playmaker to animate characters
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By Larissa Urbiks For this assignment, I decided to create another character for Treasure Island. The role is a woman with bow and arrow. She lives on the island, and she knows that the soldiers just arrived, but they don’t know that they are not alone. Making her move from one point to another wasn’t as easy as I thought. I chose her as the game object and created two spheres. One sphere is her stop point, the other one is her start and finish. The first time I tried...
Assignment 5: Make a scene interactive with PlayMaker
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Larissa Urbiks My aim of this assignment was to let my soldiers discover the island. Making my soldiers walk was more difficult than I thought and I spend in total more than six hours before they finally did what I wanted. My mistake was to add an FSM and states to the soldier and not to another object. After Professor Pacheco told me that, I created a cube and added the FSM and states to this object. The soldier is my Game Object now. I wanted to let him walk...
Assignment 4: Create a Scene in Unity
- October 7
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Larissa Urbiks I wanted to have a realistic environment for my assignment and designed an island. I put some objects on the island and tried to tell a story with them. The story is about “Treasure Island” – a long forgotten island in the middle of the ocean. The army found a document that was marked as very important. Unfortunately, it was in such a poor condition that they were only able to read some coordinates. They looked for them, but all sources said that there is nothing than water,...
Assignment 2: 360 Video Pitch
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Larissa Urbiks My story idea is to create a 360-degree video about the opening show of a football game in Carrier Dome. These grand openings with the Orange Marching Band, cheerleaders, flags and the arriving of the players is quite impressive and provides a lot to see. At a later time, we could add a story to this specific scene and accompany a player between football and his normal student life. Scene: The Carrier Dome is a large, open space. I would position the camera in the middle of the...
Assignment 1: My VR Journey
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Larissa Urbiks My experience with virtual reality is very limited. This is why I was excited for the class in the Newhouse innovation lab. When I entered the room I saw all the different VR viewers, students wearing them and interacting in another world. This was really funny to observe. There was this table with Google Cardboard phone-based viewers, another table with Samsung Gear viewer and two other VR headsets – the Oculus Rift Dk2 and the HTC Vive. I decided to begin my VR journey with the HCT Vive...