Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Week 4- Virtual Reality: Cityscape

Cityscape


           For this week we were to create three buildings that were to be created with a limited color palette. We each got one color and were allowed to use the its complimentary color along with black, white, and neutrals. My color was violet so all of my buildings are created using purple and a golden yellow. This project was done using a vive headset, the steam app, and Google Tilt Brush. Within Tilt Brush I used various brushes like the highlighter and the tapered brush to create texture, Windows and light both inside and outside of the buildings. I also used the straight edge tool and the shape tool in the software to assist in the construction of the buildings.

           All of the buildings I created have something to do with what I love. I have a passion for baking, musical theatre, and space so naturally I created a bakery, a theatre, and an observatory. For the bakery, I just followed a very simplistic outline. It contained the minimal things that a place needs for it to function as a bakery, a counter space and a kitchen with the added feature of a few tables and chairs for the option of dining in. The observatory is shaped like a sphere to mimic the shape of a planet. The inside of it is made to function as a screen that translates the images received by the telescope to create an all encompassing experience. For the theater I made it a kind of small scale theater that would be relatively functional. It has seats, a stage and a backstage area, a ticket booth, bathrooms, an elevator, and even a refreshments stand. It's very small considering that it only contains an orchestra level and a dress circle level. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Week 3- Virtual reality: Garden

Garden Vr


             Our assignment was to create a garden within the virtual reality space. The sketches that I uploaded last week were what I used as a jumping off point for my garden. I used a vive virtual reality headset, Steam software, and Google Tilt Brush to complete this project. Within Tilt Brush I used the wire brush, the soft highlighter, and some of the plain brushes to create the flowers, the tree, and the sign at the entrance of the garden. 
            I wanted to create a garden that was mystical in nature so I used a light blue color with the soft highlighter brush to create a smokey, almost water like effect to the garden. Since another part of the assignment was to create five real plants and five plants that we made up I used some of my favorite real plants and plants that were based off of different things that I love. Among the real plants are tiger lilies, pictured below, which are my favorite flower and among the imaginary ones is a plant that i created based off my favorite musical, Hamilton. The plant, pictured above, takes it's flower colors from the dresses of the Schuyler sisters and the leaves and stems are gold based off the musical poster.


         

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Week 2- Photos and sketches


This week we we got our groups. My group is starting in Virtual reality so during class we were tasked to go out and take pictures of the various plants surrounding the art building. These photos will later be used as references off different plants that we could use in the virtual garden that we would be creating. These are some of the photos that I captured.






















After we came back we started to sketch out some of the plants that we went out and photographed. When we were done with that we were also tasked with drawing out some plants that we made up. These sketches were what I had when we were done.