Next stop on the travels was to Riga in Latvia. Art Nouveau is a biggie and something I was really looking forward to seeing. The great thing is ; it is literally everywhere-not just in the dedicated Art Nouveau district. The landscape of the city is vibrant, with contrasting colours and extravagant colours/forms used –…
On a brief visit to Tallinn I am absorbing the beautiful and diverse styles of archicture and details of the buildings. First off the simple shapes in the “street furniture”. It reminds me of the simple concepts of Graphic Design that I completed with Coursera. The angular edges onto a usually rounded arc are particularly…
In parallel with the visuals research I got down to business with learning about Blueprints. Again, watching something is a very passive way of learning. So I started watching the Pluralsight videos again (Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints Fundamentals) and making notes. Making notes by hand made a huge difference in terms of what actually I…
It was a busy weekend at All Together Now. I was really excited about seeing the visuals in particular by Kiasmos and Jon Hopkins. In Sonar 2015, I saw Kiasmos’s visuals and really enjoyed it. This was just before I saw Dubfire’s visuals set which changed my life forever [Yes it was that dramatic 🙂…
The last 7 days have been reviewing the Emitters and making sure that I am keeping in line with my lecturer’s advice. I am a bit worried that it is August and I feel I don’t know very much about Emitters or how Blueprints work. I checked out my lecturer’s advice to see what he…
Time is moving on and term time getting closer! I set myself a task of figuring out which tasks I think need to be completed next. We have completed the blocking out of the videos. One of the team members suggested we check out a series of videos on doing camera work: https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/hot-moves-the-science-of-awesome.html Where I…
I went off on a tangent this weekend slightly as I am only discovering how cool the iPad is for Apps and also trying to finish a little course I am doing on the side with California Institute of Arts. I thought it would be a good time to learn about graphic design in this…
This week I tried to bring it back to basics with Unreal! Instead of going off on tangents I wanted to figure out how to do simple things like sound, putting in a camera, how to do an animation…. and also playing with it. It was probably the first week I actually just had fun…
I am writing this post in the future for the past! So last week was a lot of networking. I met with Niall Campion of VRAI. We discussed the use of VR in real terms – how its applied, use cases etc. Then I attended the 3D camp meetup – which had talks from a…
This week has been more about connecting with people in the VR world more than actually learning. I met with VRAI and discussed what they are working on. It’s really exciting how they are combining training with VR. One of the biggest questions I had was what is big in VR at the moment. The…