Medium Fidelity Prototype from Eva Daly on Vimeo.

Animating characters.

At this stage I just wanted to get an idea of what the characters would look like when they are all being animated together in the same scene. Over the next couple of days I will add sound, and using Max Msp I will animate the characters so that the react to you and your position on the x or y axis, so certain characters bones will move depending the closer you get to them. But this is what I have for now!

Final Project Development from Eva Daly on Vimeo.

Practice Background Positioning

Today I did a quick practice patch for the background elements of my Interactive Installation. The swinging heart, mushrooms and small moths move independently but the large moth follows your head with the kinect so it will appear as if it is following you. Tomorrow I will all the other characters i have illustrated which you ill be able to animate and interact with using the kinect!

Background Practise, Animata, Max Msp, Kinect from Eva Daly on Vimeo.

Illustrations

Some new illustrations I've been working on.

Practise!

Here is a pactise patch I've been working on. The quality is quite poor, I've been finding the software animata very buggy and have had to do alot of redesign in regards to illustrations. I am working with a kinect which sends osc messages to Max Msp which then sends messages to animata. Max can only take readings up to 999 and these numbers relate to your position on the x or y axis in Animata, I took quite some time to figure out that the numbers were being sent the pixels in the images used in Animata, I'd been working with quite large images up to 3000 x 3000 which only a third of the image in Animata was being utilised and the images became shortened and deformed.

Anywhoo! I resolved some of these issues and came up with this patch to practise with. The images, sound, animation aren't great but I intend to improve upon this drastically over the next couple of weeks!

 

Animata, Max, Msp, Kinect. from Eva Daly on Vimeo.

Chiho Aoshima

SUPERFLAT artist Chiho Aoshima has had a huge influence over my work, particularly for my interactive installation.  Her work transcends traditional techniques of representation.  Aoshima uses computer software to create beautiful and erotic worlds of ghosts, demons, schoolgirls, and exquisite natural landscapes. 

Her work is printable on any surface; from canvas bags to giant wallpaper installations.  “My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialize.” 

Aoshima’s work has garnered international renown with a number of high profile projects.  

In 2004, she was invited to participate in the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, where she unveiled her largest wallpaper piece to date, measuring 106 feet (32.5m ) in length by 15 feet (4.8m ) in height.  In May 2005, as part of the Little Boy project, her ecologically-themed “City Glow” and “Paradise” series covered ad spaces throughout the Union Square subway station in New York, greeting commuters as they passed. 

Illustrations

Here are a couple of the lil guys I've been working, still a lot more to do, but its getting there! The girl character at the bottom is going to be the protagonist of the installation, she will then interact with the other characters as she moves through the installation!  These illustrations were made in photoshop and my new best friend my bamboo drawing tablet!

SHROOOOOOOMS!!