Video capture.
Posted 1 year ago
Fixed the rotation and placement of Scene 1 and Scene 2 when they are held up together. Added a few more elements to Scene 2. Next: add fireflies, stars, and moving water to Scene 2.
Posted 1 year ago
FINALLY I have multiple marker detection working!!
Obviously the rotations are all wrong - I still have to play with that :)
Posted 1 year ago
Scene 2 in progress. To be added: more objects on the ground, fireflies in the air and stars in the background.
Posted 1 year ago
So progress is slow which is not good… We basically have 10 weeks left, and if you leave 2 weeks for touchups and video documentation, that gives me just 8 weeks left to finish this thing.
This is just a demo of reading 2 markers at the same time. I’m going to do page flips for scene changes instead of knocking (each page will have one marker on it), because it’s easier to control and probably more intuitive. The second image is a custom marker for the first scene.
Posted 2 years ago
I made a small character from Papervision primitives. The texture is just temporary. But still, the consensus seems to be that my 3D characters look too simplistic and do not match with the hand-drawn style of the other objects. So I’m going back to my 2D characters…
Posted 2 years ago
Scene 5
Concept: Betrayal from someone you thought you could trust.
Environment: Daytime. Outdoor. Fire pyre on one corner of scene. Palace.
Animated: Fire
Characters: Girl, king, 11 swans, 11 brothers
Initial Character State: Girl and king stand apart.
EVENTS:
Text: “Every day she grew more and more attached to him, and longed to confide in him, tell him her sufferings; but dumb she must remain”
1. Wedding bells sound. King and girl stand together.
Text: “Day by day his face grew darker; Elise saw it but could not imagine what was the cause of it.”
2. Girl and king move apart.
Text: “Let her be consumed in the glowing flames!”
3. Girl moves to fire. Swans fly in and lands on shirts. Swans change to humans.
Text: “She hastily threw the eleven shirts over the swans, who were immediately transformed to eleven handsome princes”
4. Everyone moves together. End.
Posted 2 years ago
Scene 4
Concept: How much are you willing to give up for someone you love?
Environment: Cave, nettles, castle in sky, grass, knitting needles
Animated: castle in sky,
Characters: Girl, fairy, king
Initial Character State: Girl sleeps in green cave, nighttime.
EVENTS:
Text: “Your brothers can be delivered, but have you courage and endurance enough for it?”
1. Fairy comes out of the castle. Girl goes towards fairy.
Text: “Crush the nettles with your feet and you will have flax, and of this you must weave eleven coats of mail with long sleeves.”
2. Girl walks over, gathers nettles. Starts knitting the flax.
Text: “But remember that from the moment you begin this work till it is finished, even if it takes years, you must not utter a word!”
3. Sun and moon circle around, time passes. The pile of shirts gets bigger.
Text: “How came you here, beautiful child? Come with me!”
4. King walks into the scene.
KNOCK:
Fourth scene animates out. Intro text of fifth scene animates in.
Posted 2 years ago
Scene 3
Concept: For this moment you have hope. You search and he comes back to you. You think maybe this time you can all be happy.
Environment: Ocean, clouds, net
Animated: Ocean, castle in sky (constantly changing)
Characters: 11 brothers, girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Swans and girl sit by the ocean together.
EVENTS:
Text: “We brothers,” said the eldest, “have to fly about in the guise of swans, as long as the sun is above the horizon.”
1. Third scene animates in.
Text: “When it goes down we regain our human shapes.”
2. Sun sets, moon rises. Swans turn into princes.
Text: “There is another land, just as beautiful as this, beyond the sea; but the way to it is very long and we have to cross the mighty ocean to get to it.
3. Sun rises. Brothers change back into swans.
Text: “Have you courage to go with us?”
4. A large net from willow bark appears. Girl gets into the net. Swans take net up in their beaks, start flying.
KNOCK:
Third scene animates out. Intro text of fourth scene animates in.
Posted 2 years ago
Scene 2
Concept: First you have no hope, then you decide you will make it work no matter what.
Environment: Trees, animals
Animated: River moving, pepples pop out, feathers
Characters: Girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Girl continuously moves around the set.
EVENTS:
Text: “Poor Elise wept, and thought of her eleven brothers who were all lost.”
1. Second scene animates in. Girl immediately begins walking around.
Text: “She made up her mind to go and look for them.”
2. Girl walks around.
Text: “Every time the warm sunbeams shone upon her cheek, it reminded her of their kisses.”
3. Girl walks to river. Pebbles pop out.
Text: “The water rolls on without weariness, till all that is hard becomes smooth; so will I be unwearied in my task.”
4. Feathers flutter to the ground near the river. Girl walks to the feathers. Swans fly in from a distance.
KNOCK:
Second scene animates out. Intro text of third scene animates in.
The progress and development of my MFA thesis: an interactive Flash augmented reality work inspired by the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen.This interactive augmented-reality piece will explore the story of The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen from a personal perspective. Interaction in the form of page flips will trigger the next scene. Text will visually describe the narrative. The piece will be created in Flash, and its final form will be an installation. The interactive installation will focus on creating an experience in which it appears as if a book has come to life.
