WEEK 2
Shtilyan, the lifesaver
In the beginning, the fact that Shtilyan was in Bulgaria was a bit frustrating. In the end, it turned out to be our solution to our problems. He, with a fresh mind, came up with an amazing concept inspired by Chaldni's technique. We then talked about it, and tried to implement this idea into our concept. We then decided to create an interactive installation with a hologram as well as sounds, that people can control with their hand movements.
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Getting our concept clear was not an easy thing. We had to talk to a lot of professors, as well as Jacob - a super cool artist - and the owner of the skate shop in the city. We god a lot of inspiration, and we finally got our concept straight.
week 6
In this week I decided that I wanted to challenge myself more with creating visuals. I thought about maybe a better program that I could use; cinema 4D.
I knew that with this program 3D animations could look better.
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From this thought I was searching the internet for good and useful tutorials. In the end with some advice from friends who are familiar with cinema 4D I came to this tutorial:
I learned a lot with these tutorials but I am still nog sure if this is the picture I see in my head when I'm thinking about our installation it's visuals. So i decided that I'll do some more research about the possibillities in cinema 4D next week.
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And we got money!! With my contacts in the Enschede off the grid scene I was able to warm "important" people up about our project. I felt that I brought it enthusiastic and was able to convince people to see the value in our project.
All these moves where not for nothing. on Wednesday and Thursday I had contact with the overkill festival who eventually where able to sponsor us for €100! and above of that I got a message from Kees from gogbot who sort of said that I had to convince him why we could mean something for him and his organization. We called an in the end it felt that he was totally convinced. By that time I felt really proud of myself, cause it is sort of a learning goal to become better in presenting myself.
Above this I created a new 3D scene which would give a more realistic view of how our installation would look like in front of the installation. you can see it below.
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justification week 6
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Sacha
teamwork: goes good, we need to be aware that we can still manage our project. She worries about the result and how to realize the Unity files + not sure about how to realize the interaction.
What she needs is to gain more faith in the result: this could with realizing a basic working prototype of what we want and being less worried of the time that remains.
Solution: so far she is very busy in the weekends. Didn’t have time to create new blogposts. She does make notes but didn’t have any time to write it out. This all is connected with the justification goal, she hopes that this week she will make big improvements. This will cause hopefully a bit more rest.
Justification: What needs to improve is planning for the upcoming weeks with school, work and social life, and stick to her own rule that school goes first. She mentions that she got a bit too tight up with the busy life. Maybe needs to drop something. Talking about it helps. She thinks it is annoying for the other team members, our team leader thinks we can give more positive feedback on the stuff she creates. Besides this it is important that learns to feel worthy about herself even if she hasn’t done anything, this also counts for some of the other team-members. As a team we could give her boundaries.
for the next lesson: write down three character qualities about the team-members
side notes; daily progression talks, open communication, team members feel safe to express themselves, the team is having fun, there is empathy
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