Monday morning was busy with visits and conversations around the future direction of the project.
Conversation with Sally Lockey, Project Director for ‘Right Up Our Street’, Doncaster’s Creative People and Places project funded through the Arts Council. Wayne Sables provided the introduction. Amongst other things we talked about potential opportunities to show the piece, when completed, in Doncaster. We also talked about the potential of the medium. Wayne feels there are loads of opportunities to put it forward in a variety of locations. Pressure to finish mounts!
By the time I display the piece in October I will have the three ‘rooms’ that the viewer navigates and a system for movement that is smoother and easier than the teleport I’ve used on earlier films. This week is going to be modelling artefacts to place in the spaces and building the third space for import on Monday. Then it will be refining the spaces and movement, working out instructions and display requirements and so on.
Very little practical achieved on Monday.
Did discuss a few ideas with Wayne around what might happen with the space, one thing I am seriously considering is the prospect of being able to move the separate planes of the photographic garden while in VR.
Tuesday I began a model to bring into the space, potentially to be carried around.
Wednesday I imported the start space into Unity, played around with using video in the space, it gets a bit laggy when the video is running, and essentially made it work as a set of three using teleport.
Thursday I made textures for the start space and continued with the model from Tuesday.
Friday I met with Andrea Berry to prepare for the presentations on the 11th October and imported the new materials into the opening space.
Projection Space
I have film of the new opening space but I forgot to copy it! I’ll preface the next post with it.