ok so week 27 i got carried away... we were meant to be creating a tree in 3ds max, however upon completing it i decided to stay on after the lecture and have a mess about and add some random things, although non of it fits together and it looks odd my main aim was to play with the software and this is what i did and this is the resulting piece.
Thursday, 31 January 2008
squid
this is my atempt at creating the squid from the seminar in week 26, this took me ages as i had alot of problems gettin the timings and raises and falls right. although it is not briliant i am still fairly pleased with it as it is one of the first thbings i have created using any animation software.
the future
in this task we were asked to watch a video and predict how that technology may help us in the future, or to pick one of the other aspects of the lecture and do the same thing with it. i have decided that i would rather look into avatars with real bodies as this concept seems to interest me more, therefore i went on the net and found this quote:
"Researchers are working to associate online avatars with physical bodies, connecting virtual reality robots with steel and software counterparts. The unification of software and mobility like this results in the so-called 'Ubibot' (ubiquitous robot), which the researchers predict is the future of interactive robotics. In the future, avatars on your pc/cell/pda screen may be able to bring you your tea or scratch your back. 'Two key components of the interface involve the sensor mapper and behavior mapper. The sensor mapper helps Rity get physical (ultrasound) sensor information from Mybot, enabling the virtual avatar to use physical information. The behavior mapper helps Rity actually perform physical behaviors using Mybot in a real environment, enabling the avatar to interact physically with human beings in real environments.'"
this was taken off:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/14/2137227
from this quote it is bovious that if we can manage this we will have alot more relaxed lives, we could use the avatar for any task including:
house hold tasks
shopping
maintenace around the house/garden
delivering messages
however when you think of this on a larger scale this could be used in other ways for example it would be easy to use avatars to have business meetings so people dont have to fly from all over the world.
if an avatar could be pre-porogrammed then it could be used to help handicapped people or to stop people breaking into to a building.
however at the same time i feel this could be a very bad idea, people would get reliant on machines, the health of the country would dramticaly drop as we use avatars to do anything and it would mean very little for people to do.
avatars with a body a good or bad idea? who knows...
"Researchers are working to associate online avatars with physical bodies, connecting virtual reality robots with steel and software counterparts. The unification of software and mobility like this results in the so-called 'Ubibot' (ubiquitous robot), which the researchers predict is the future of interactive robotics. In the future, avatars on your pc/cell/pda screen may be able to bring you your tea or scratch your back. 'Two key components of the interface involve the sensor mapper and behavior mapper. The sensor mapper helps Rity get physical (ultrasound) sensor information from Mybot, enabling the virtual avatar to use physical information. The behavior mapper helps Rity actually perform physical behaviors using Mybot in a real environment, enabling the avatar to interact physically with human beings in real environments.'"
this was taken off:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/14/2137227
from this quote it is bovious that if we can manage this we will have alot more relaxed lives, we could use the avatar for any task including:
house hold tasks
shopping
maintenace around the house/garden
delivering messages
however when you think of this on a larger scale this could be used in other ways for example it would be easy to use avatars to have business meetings so people dont have to fly from all over the world.
if an avatar could be pre-porogrammed then it could be used to help handicapped people or to stop people breaking into to a building.
however at the same time i feel this could be a very bad idea, people would get reliant on machines, the health of the country would dramticaly drop as we use avatars to do anything and it would mean very little for people to do.
avatars with a body a good or bad idea? who knows...
2nd life
ok so i have finally gotten around to creating my avatar on 2nd life, my impressions so far? not that impressed. as of yet i have found the tutorials confusing, i have no idea where and when i have completed a tutorial and if i can leave before i complete them, the clothing of my avatar randomly changes half way through walking and the graphics keep messing up while i play, this may be slightly due to my laptop admitedly, but still not drawing me in yet, so this is my progress so far:
although it may seem a slightly random choice, the last name of "Bernard" shown in this picture does infact have meaning to me, in college one of my friends insisted on calling me Bernard, so this is my tribute to him.
this is my avatar just after creation, as you can see i have decided to go with the male gothic/cyber punk set up, i have decided to do this as in the past i have been known to dress in gothic clothing and because in the time i had my mohawk i was nicknamed the cyberpunk. in terms of the starting appearance of your avatar i do not think that the programme gives you very much control over how your avatar looks and although you can change your apperance later it becomes hard to get the look you want depending on the look you pick at trhe beging.
This is me editing the aperance of my avatar in the editing window, i actualy found this interface hard to use as you had to take the look you picked at the beggining and completely re-edit that look to get what you wanted this made it much harder than saying, "I want this hair style in theis colour and this shaped eyes, these lips," etc.
this is my completed avatar, as you can see i have gone for the mohawk look, this is a referenace to the fact that i used to have a mohawk, the fingernails and lips of my avatar are black, this is to show that in past i have done both these things as a laugh for parties. this clothing is as close as i could get it to the sort of thing i would wear, i wanted to get the jacket to look longer and leather but couldn't work out how it was done. i have gone with the more bulky of the body shapes to show that i often work out and try to keep in shape.
although it may seem a slightly random choice, the last name of "Bernard" shown in this picture does infact have meaning to me, in college one of my friends insisted on calling me Bernard, so this is my tribute to him.
this is my avatar just after creation, as you can see i have decided to go with the male gothic/cyber punk set up, i have decided to do this as in the past i have been known to dress in gothic clothing and because in the time i had my mohawk i was nicknamed the cyberpunk. in terms of the starting appearance of your avatar i do not think that the programme gives you very much control over how your avatar looks and although you can change your apperance later it becomes hard to get the look you want depending on the look you pick at trhe beging.
This is me editing the aperance of my avatar in the editing window, i actualy found this interface hard to use as you had to take the look you picked at the beggining and completely re-edit that look to get what you wanted this made it much harder than saying, "I want this hair style in theis colour and this shaped eyes, these lips," etc.
this is my completed avatar, as you can see i have gone for the mohawk look, this is a referenace to the fact that i used to have a mohawk, the fingernails and lips of my avatar are black, this is to show that in past i have done both these things as a laugh for parties. this clothing is as close as i could get it to the sort of thing i would wear, i wanted to get the jacket to look longer and leather but couldn't work out how it was done. i have gone with the more bulky of the body shapes to show that i often work out and try to keep in shape.
colour and light
For my 2 examples of colour and light pictures i have taken 2 pictures from the anime film "Ghost in the Shell"
This picture particularly shows light well, in the image it is easy to identify where the source of light is coming from as it is shinning dirictly off the Major's face and the water or simulation behind her is reflecting the light, this gives the water the impression that is is very vibrant and coulorfull rather than the deep blue it would normaly have been. because of the relfection from the water even the colours that should have been dark and dank have a brighter colour to them.
this images is slightly darker than the last however the light rays bending around the the front of the picture and behind the major contribute alot to the light of the picture and help to make the blue and white stand out more than they would ariginaly have done. in this picture we are unsure as to what the light source actualy is.
This picture particularly shows light well, in the image it is easy to identify where the source of light is coming from as it is shinning dirictly off the Major's face and the water or simulation behind her is reflecting the light, this gives the water the impression that is is very vibrant and coulorfull rather than the deep blue it would normaly have been. because of the relfection from the water even the colours that should have been dark and dank have a brighter colour to them.
this images is slightly darker than the last however the light rays bending around the the front of the picture and behind the major contribute alot to the light of the picture and help to make the blue and white stand out more than they would ariginaly have done. in this picture we are unsure as to what the light source actualy is.
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
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