- vr painting
I decided to Instagram message Manards, a fictional designer combining his background in graffiti, classical fine arts, and graphic design in his unique portfolio. I came across his work on Behance and was instantly mesmerised. I couldn’t find a lot of information about his processes and his workflow so decided to message him on instagram. He provided me a lot of useful information and I will continue to use this research to delve into the world of messy interface further. The main link between his work and our brief is that he creates his futuristic three dimensional design from a reconfiguration he creates of famous “grandmaster” paintings in the idea of them centuries ago actually being exposed to computer softwares and programmes. This is a real life example of juxtapositioning analogue and digital works. The original painting therefore being analogue and Manards design being digital. A messy interface.
To the right is a colour palette I have created colour dropping colours from of his pieces and editing them on nomad sculpt.
I wanted to explore other techniques to capture industrial environments abandoned spaces and areas that relate to the mill around Manchester to broaden my development. I visited the science and industry museum as this is a great example of a place that has been developed and rebuilt for a newer purpose for human education and experience. Plus it showcases industry throughout the ages in Manchester. Other areas included underneath a train track arches, that has been heavily graffitied by humans through illegal raves. Lastly an area outside an abandoned building that I attempted to enter but has security cameras surrounding.
The 360 camera feels like a lense maginifying these places that are rarely pictured and filmed, especially without large groups of people obstructing the architecture ( not in a party setting ). Giving the spaces an eerie feeling, similar to liminal spaces. The lens also showcases primary imagery being the input and passing through the 360 camera which is a digital process that adapts and changes the video to another output.
crit with Adam
colour edits : liminal space colour palette
- don't like as much as the original video colours , as with the editing it looses its grittiness and rawness and representation of the reality of the present space
These photography experiments felt very influenced by inception. I really enjoyed using this camera, the app was absolutely terrible and kept crashing which was a nuisance but the outcomes make the struggle worth it.
We visited science and industry museum to take some 360 camera footage ( the beiger coloured ones above ) as this felt like a good place to take some primary imagery as it is built on the site of the oldest surviving passenger railway station, in the heart of the world’s first industrial city, today alive with innovative discoveries in science and technology. This is very fitting to my brief of industrial buildings and abandoned spaces that once had a purpose and are rebuilt, ( in this case to a mesuem to educate ) and my visual imagery is presented through very emerging technologies that are used within the science field often ( VR, AR ( mill renders from the start) and moving image ).
You can see loads of the the remaining industrial windows and metal scaffolding work
I Love the way the 360 camera and panoramas look visually and would of loved to include them within my final project. But after having a discussion with Adam we decided to keep the exhibiton as just visualising the mill but with reference within the 3d sculpt to other abandoned places in Manchester. So the reality split screen will just be video footage of the mill, but within the 3D sculpt the floor plan will be of the mill and other rooms are inspired by other abandoned places. But the concept of the exhibition is that of a touring one, that travels to cities or general locations around the world and choose specific buildings to exhibit within and explore that are abandoned/ derelict/ repurposed but reference other buildings similar around the chosen one.