Image based lighting

Yuri Endo 2011

After utilizing the spherical panoramic image for the light source, I played around with two spheres' reflection, transparency and colors. My next step is to improve their colors, transparency and image distortion behind so they would look more believable as two soap bubbles floating around.

Use Background

Yuri Endo 2011

I just started to understand how the plate can cast shadows on plate using "background" function.

Transparent specimens

Yuri Endo 2011

New world Transparent Specimen by Iori Tomita @KIAF/11

I just encountered a curious art piece by a Japanese artist, Iori Tomita, at Korea International Art Fair. As seen in the picture above, he takes the scientific technique of preserving dying organism specimens to whole new level. (Find out more) Although I'm not particularly a specimen aficionado, the visual impacts those chromatic dead animals gave me was rather intense. In that sense, I've been contemplating wether there are any ways to adopt this very visual effects to my pop-up world.

3D exercise: Step 3

Work in progress...

3D exercise: Step 2

Yuri Endo 2011

360°panoramic images for the lighting.

3D excercise: Step 1

Yuri Endo 2011

My base location plate to composiet a simple 3D image.

Fantastic Mr. Caliri

The title sequence from United States of Tara by Jamie Caliri

I believe most of his works are consist of digital stills from a stop motion shots, then composed with After Effects, however for this TV opening title, he effectively uses pop-up book concept to illustrate the world of Tara, the protagonist of the show. Although this is not exactly what I intend to achieve from my project, it still is my favorite and an inspiration.

Next 4 weeks

Some more scrabbles

As a preparation for my final output as well as an experimental project, I would like to create a short movie; animation projected on a pop-up book which tells different stories each time someone turns a page. On that note, following 4 weeks I will work on:

1. Scenario and storyboard

2. Mock-up

3. Animation for projection mapping

4. Movie

Pop-up debut

Yuri Endo 2011

Upon setting my heart on the virtual pop-up book idea, I created a paper city from a DIY template in order to understand the pop-up structure and its visual effects. Even with an already made model, the process of building a pop-up from one sheet of paper was much intricating than I had imagined, however, I believe it'll be highly possible to apply this concept to create a virtual version of one.

Travel without moving

Scrabbles from my initial brainstorming session.

Throughout this summer, I had been lucky enough to take in numerous museums, art exhibitions and events in several countries. Many of the presented works were wondrous on the whole, to say the least, I was vastly inspired by some exhibition designs from lighting, frames, showcases to the uses of spaces. Therefore, I would like to dedicate my semester in this course to explore new possibilities of exhibition design, in other words, seek and evaluate inventive and interactive approaches for public installations by mixing real and 3D moving imageries.

On that note, my initial ideas are;

Pop-up book:

Utilizing the concept of paper pop-up books, an empty book displays 3D moving imageries each time someone turns a page.

Product installation:

3D product animation replaces an actual product and displays interactively in a box.

Fashion showcase:

3D product animation replaces an actual garment and a model.

Takashi Kuribayashi_INBETWEEN

Yuri Endo 2011 a Takashi Kuribayashi exhibition @ Beyond Museum

The exhibition INBETWEEN by Takashi Kuribayashi mainly features his signature installation; the giant snow white floating forest made by Japanese paper and pulp which to meant to realise the rifts of the land surface and their borderlines and gives us a different perspective on viewing the forest from the forest floor.

Although the exhibition was rather smaller ( in number of works that were presented) than I had expected, I enjoyed the use of space and the floating forest. Additionally, some unique objects and paintings he presented besides the forest; Wooden Yatai, a mobile food stool and photograph like paintings of tree branches which can be inspirations for my upcoming projects. I especially liked the metal cooler with leaves locked up inside the huge block of ice, for its inexplicable aesthetic.

Sneak preview

M×2 from The Inbetweener on Vimeo.

An object mapping installation, M×2, was completed as my final project for the course, Media Art Unit One, in which I was given an opportunity to experiment with projection mapping techniques intergrading with non-narrative storytelling to achieve the augmentation.

During the course of this project, I took advantages of my knowledge and skills earned from my previous specialization in the film production, especially with my experiences in stop-motion animation and advanced post -production, along with my 2-year education in design.

Brief + wondrous research blog

Thank you for visiting TWEAKS + PEEKS. The prime purpose of this blog is to document developments of the course, Media Environment Unit Two, conducted by Professor David Hall of IDAS(Hongik University) which aims to explore the area of production design and concept with an eye on new and future user experience (UX) within the city. Please sit back and enjoy the compelling journey.