Jake Williams Project 2 - Tape Mapping

 Concept: 

If there is one thing that everyone can agree on, it is that dragons are freaking cool as heck. That is why for my project, I decided to design, calibrate, and tape map a dragon to the corner cabinets. the cabinets I am using for this project are arranged in an L shape with a 90 degree angle right in the center, and I felt that it would be cool to incorporate both sides of the cabinet array into my composition. 

Technique:

After a few sketches, I came up with a Chinese dragon inspired design that twists and coils around itself. To get the design into MadMapper, I started with a quad to map out the shape of the cabinets. I then added a digital sketch of the dragon as a material onto the quad and traced over the lines with the line tool. 

Once everything was mapped out and the tape was applied, I made a few masks. For my first composition, I masked out the background. For my second, I masked out the foreground and added some moving text that follows the path of a line down the dragon. on the final composition, I filled the dragon with quads and then put a cool material on the quads and a material onto the background. To get the border around the dragon on the third composition, all I had to do was copy and paste the mask that I used on the second comp and then convert the masks to lines using the "Create Lines From Surface Outlines" button. Pretty convenient. 

Interpretation:

I like how this project turned out, especially considering this was the first time working with MadMapper (I missed the first assignment 😢). If I had to do it again, I would probably delve deeper and experiment more with MadMapper's extensive list of tools and features. I feel like I have only scratched the surface of this program's capabilities.