Anisha Chaudhary Project 03: Relief Mapping

SETUP 01

Concept:

I saw 1tbsp at the Dallas club venue, It'll Do, so I decided to use the Mother Board Room Set Up to create effects for that show. This is the song that I chose to create a relief projection mapping for:
Song: 1tbsp - Best of Me
I picked out effects that had colors that reminded me of their album art colors, which are bright pastels and black and white imagery. 

Technique:

I wanted to have high energy for this piece, so every effect that I chose was very flashy. I added controls to the opacity and scale of different materials in each scene to create a pulse sensation to go with the beat of the music.

I edited the code created by Jason Beyers for RainbowCircle so that it would appear as CMY lines by multiplying the output color by 20. 

Interpretation:
This projected relief has been an exploration of lighting for electronic dance music venues or clubs. The colors are referenced from the album art, and the bright and pulsing energy of this projection would accompany the performer, 1tbsp, very well.

Link: https://youtu.be/SMlQBDJbg08

SETUP 02

Concept:

This is a rotoscope animation that I created of my friend in 2021. I felt a connection to this song by Liv.e when I was going through severe depression. The reverberation of this song made me think of water. The concept of this animation is about feeling tearful and falling into cyclical depression. The small bowls that are a part of the relief represent glimmers of hope and the viewers are welcome to toss pennies into the bowl to offer their wishes for peace. 
Song: Liv.E - I Been Livin'

Technique: 

I was using the double projector, and I wanted to avoid having the animation in the center so that the blending would not be an issue. I liked the decision I made to have the animation mirror on the left and right. On the projection, the right side is darker than the left, I think this could be adjusted with the projector settings in the future. I used a black cloth to cover the floor so that the projection would appear brighter. I also used Tupperware containers for my bowls of water. In the future, I would like to use a larger bowl of water and have a motor or some sort of rig to make the water move on its own. I would really like to have consistent rippling effect in the water. 
I used the blend mode Multiply to add effects to my animation and each scene cue. 

Interpretation:

I enjoyed hearing Professor Scott's interpretation of this piece of this being similar to a libation. I do interpret this piece is an offering of peace to those who are struggling with depression or tearfulness. 
 

Link: https://youtu.be/F5nFlpWurh4

DaHyun Kim Project 03, Relief-Mapping

The overall projects deals with matters of human disfunction.

Project 1. "Island" 

Concept:

Any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers.  

The surrounding sea is a barrier to some forms of life but acts as a carrier for others, which, once established in their new home, frequently develop new features in their isolated surroundings. 

Applying this concept to humanity and our society, whether it's regarding safety, interpersonal relationships, or other social factors, we are more in a state of setting our own island,  isolating ourselves from other individuals, hence amplifying the feeling of loneliness, depression, and reluctance of facing the outer world.

"We are islands ourselves, isolated from each other."

Techniques:

For this project, the overall environment would fit appropriately with the floor projection and  2 of the face-like polygon objects. I feel the need for all 2 of these objects to emphasize the relative comparison of two individuals.

Relief mapping a large area requires at least more than 2 projectors, and the main challenge was blending the overlapping projection screen graphics naturally. I did this by making a quad that covers the whole projection area, duplicate it so I can try experimenting with different compositions with left and right, and added 2 projection areas which for each of them.

It took a long time to precisely match the overlapping place enough so it will seem like two screens are in the right place.

Then I got the 3D modeling that matches the polygon object from elearning, imported into MadMapper, and aligned 2 of them so it could match with the real space.

After the basic settings are done, I played with all sorts of settings, applying the materials and surfaceFX I modified in appropriate places, 

Interpretations:

Final Output:

Project 2. "ADHD" 

Concept:

ADHD.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

ADHD symptoms arise from executive dysfunction, and emotional dysregulation is often considered a core symptom. It's associated with other neurodevelopmental and mental disorders as well as some non-psychiatric disorders, which can cause additional impairment, especially in modern society. 

Although people with ADHD struggle to sustain attention on tasks that entail delayed rewards or consequences, they are often able to maintain an unusually prolonged and intense level of attention for tasks they do find interesting or rewarding; this is known as hyperfocus. 

Though this is identified as a mental disorder, I feel that it is a rather helpful and enjoyable one for artists like me, for the fact that such thing can branch off to various ideas normally I couldn't think of, making all the inner and outer chaos occurring in the mind an enjoyable event that doesn't make in state of boredom.

"A party in our mind"

Techniques:

With 3 projectors(One for the head and other 2 for the background) Janus Head Map Setting had the most large projection scale for me to play with. I was able to get the format of the Janus Head project from e-learning, and this project also needed an import of the 3D obj/fbx file and UV file along with it, otherwise the project won't open properly.   

So to make a feeling of "A party in our mind", I got some use of materials and surface2D vfxs that's more rather... "uncontrollable", including the ones that i modified with visual coding. 

From a public material library, there is this material called "Glyphs" a grid of random alphabets and signs. This is the main property I use for the whole project since it appropriately expresses the feeling of craziness happening in the mind. An unaligned words and alphabet randomly happening everywhere. I just had so much fun with this. Based off with this material, I mixed with 3~4 various layers with different combinations of opacity settings for the background and make it precisely interactive with the background music.  

Then I got to learn about the DMX lighting method and how to modify via madmapper from professor Scott, and I was able to modify the led lighting to let out a graphic as I wanted, and was able to add audio controls, just like I did with  the regular quads.

Interpretations:

Final Output:

Zahra Jafarpour, project 03, Relief Mapping

 The Rabbit:

I have been photographing dead animals I find on the street since two years ago. Some of them were eaten by other animals and some were run over by cars. Currently, I am working on a series where I paint their images on old plates.

When I signed up for this class, I had the idea of making an animation of a running rabbit projected onto a plate. I worked on it since the beginning of the semester. I used the rotoscope method and drew frame by frame from the video. Finally, I added the picture of the dead rabbit that I've found on campus.

I was going to project the video of two hands holding a knife and a fork in front of it, but when I was working on the project in the 3D Lab, Anisha suggested that I can perform that act live instead of using a video, and I agreed. I did. :)

The two portraits:

To me, this wonderful sculpture represents a man and a woman who are connected by their brains and share all their thoughts with each other, but at the same time they have no way to communicate verbally.

For this, I chose a song from the joint album of Mehsa Vahdat and Sam McClain called: "Meditating over a Photo".

The most important thing for me was that this collaboration is between a man and a woman, one singing in Farsi and the other in English.

Technically, I didn't know that the calibrated version of this file was available in eLearning, and I calibrated it myself and tried to create lines in the brain using "Grid/Mesh Wrapping". This helped me to practice everything that was in the tutorials and I am very happy about that.