Concept
The backdrop is a photo I took on the UTD campus, under the main library entrance. The theme is sci-fi space station, which took heavy influence from the video game Sonic Adventure 2. I wanted to take advantage of projecting onto both the wall and the ceiling to create a more three-dimensional illusion. The stairs and their guard rails are projected onto clearly in order to avoid a hypothetical tripping hazard.
Technique
The star animation was created in Processing, and utilizes a number of techniques to simulate movement through space, though the program itself is entirely two-dimensional. The program was recorded and exported as mp4 before being imported into MadMapper. The video is looped and reversed to create a seamless animation.
The stairs and rails are lines. The steps are grouped so that they can be animated together, and the same goes for the middle rail.
Interpretation
I wanted to capture the feelings I had when I was in middle school playing Sonic Adventure 2 on my GameCube. It had such a strange specific aesthetic I wanted to capture, which is what the first scene is focused on. The second scene aims to capture the feeling of floating through space without any attachments, formless and timeless. The third scene highlights the structure itself, bringing attention back to the physical realm and down from the stars. Ultimately, the future of technology is one big unknown. One day we may live in space, and it's fun to imagine what that would be like.
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