Continuing on the concept of my Room Mapping Project, this composition expresses a different perspective towards my idea of allowing the viewer to step inside my mind and with it, to have a moment in which my memories are seen through space.
The second composition is the successor of a work created in my video production class, the story talks about a hacker who lost his wife due to an automated car accident. He loses his mind throughout the video and creates an Artificial Intelligence that replaces his wife but such becomes a much greater burden than her physical state.
Process
The first composition was created in After Effects and Mad Mapper, I initially exported the line output from MM and used it as a base to create the animation of the videos within AE.
Its hard to keep my mind together sometimes, especially when there are so many things to think about; Family, Friends, Career, Food, Nature, and Indulgences. This composition shall allow the audience to step into my head and get a taste of goes through it every day, it's a lot I know, but wear my shoes for a moment and understand my story. It's important for me to share where I come from since I got big plans for where I am going next and I want to make sure that everyone knows that dreams come true if you work hard for them and that some will have to work harder than others but that is perfectly fine!
Process
This composition was created by analyzing every possible surface in which the light from the projectors would hit, every single pixel! From boxes on the shelves to pre-made sculptures at the studio, I aimed to interact with as many surfaces as I could. I created a quad for each individual video and placed it according to the following layout.
Projector setup
Interpretation
Memories Composition
..::Party::..
Here lays a bonus composition due to my latest party mood.
Both of my concepts are inspired by Mike Winkelmann also known as Beeple, a graphic designer that releases content through a creative commons license in which famous artists like Srillex, Tiesto, and Flying Lotus have used during their concerts. Also, the outstanding architecture and magnitude of the Founders and ECS building at UTD begged to be spatially activated thus the following ideas were implemented:
Founders Building - The University of Texas at Dallas
Engineering and Computer Science Building - The University of Texas at Dallas
Technique:
For the Founders building concept I used Beeple's UNPLUG (loop) and projected it on the main surfaces of the composition using quads, mesh quads, lines, and masking, such would be visible from a distance as well as experienced when walking from both sides of the building. The grid pattern of the windows was accentuated with animated lines and a fill-up animation that complemented the orange dominating color of the video as the lines flowed through the grid. Lastly, a smooth wave animation was used on a couple of horizontal surfaces which balance the magnitude and power of the main vertical quads.
My second concept was also inspired and constructed for Beeple's Transparent Machines. Major ideas came from the message of the composition and the current net neutrality situation, my take on this topic is reflected by the emphasis of the text used in my projection and various other quads with relevant sections of Beeple's composition such as people like Barack Obama & Mark Zuckerberg. I aimed to keep the intended eye movement of the audience thus the position of text which persuades the viewer to flow throughout the design.
Materials:
MapMapper 3.2.1.
Microsoft's Game DVR functionality.
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.
Adobe Premier Pro.
Beeple's UNPLUG loop & Transparent Machines video.
YouTube.
