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  • Rowena – Animation Test

    Rowena – Animation Test

    Now that I have a rigged puppet, I can play with trying to make the movement feel like a stop motion. My first test is animating at 6 frames per…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Animation, Production, Puppet
    Animation, Maya, Production, Puppet
  • Rowena – Rigging

    Rowena – Rigging

    On top of the most difficult puppet to photogrammetry, she is the most difficult puppet to rig. She has some malleableness to her arms in a way that isn’t like…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Animation, Production, Puppet
    Animation, Maya, Production, Puppet, Rigging
  • Rowena – Cleanup

    Rowena – Cleanup

    The puppet captured well so the cleanup was very routine. The method that I prefer to use is to do minimal cleanup in Reality Capture itself. The tool is a…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Materials, Modeling, Production, Puppet
    Materials, Maya, Modeling, Production, Puppet, Substaince Painter, Zbrush
  • Rowena – Photogrammetry

    Rowena – Photogrammetry

    While she is the easiest puppet to create, she is going to be the most difficult to capture. I don’t want to take the doll apart to capture because I…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Photogrammetry, Production, Puppet
    Photogrammetry, Photography, Puppet, RealityCapture
  • Rowena – Puppet Creation

    Rowena – Puppet Creation

    There are several puppets that I’m going to need to create for this project. The first one I am focusing on is the character of Rowena. In the story, she…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Production, Puppet
    construction, Production, Puppet
  • Ligeia

    Ligeia

    It took a while for me to settle on a story for my project. Part of it was that since it is going to be made from found objects, I…

    Mar 4, 2025
    Pre Production
    preproduction, Story
  • Makey Makey Prototype

    Makey Makey Prototype

    I have a working prototype for switching between the passthrough mode and being in the VR scene. If you touch your thumb and middle finger together with the glove, it…

    Oct 29, 2024
    Makey Makey, Pre Production
    Controller, Makey Makey, Prototyping
  • Passthrough on PC Sucess!

    Passthrough on PC Sucess!

    I was able to get passthrough working on a PC build. I had to use the Meta plugin vs the Unity built in plugin. The only downside it is wants…

    Oct 27, 2024
    Pre Production, Quest 3, Unity
    meta, Unity, VR
  • Unity Snag

    I’m sure this won’t be the only snag I encounter during this project, but I figured I’d document what I am currently up against. My ultimate setup for this is…

    Oct 26, 2024
    Pre Production, Quest 3, Unity
    prototype, Unity, VR
  • Midterm Presentations

    Midterm Presentations

    I haven’t had too much time to update this because we just went through our midterm presentations and I was preparing for it. This was sort of our “rough draft”…

    Oct 22, 2024
    Pre Production
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This site is to document my progress as I work through the different stages of my thesis project for my Masters of Art and Design at NC State.

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