Author: Eric Chang

Here are some BTS photos, from Kat Vlasova, of the motion capture days for our Siggraph 2019 piece.

Before reading this blog post, read these two articles first. Age of Entanglement by Neri Oxman (Professor, MIT Media Lab – Mediated Matter Research Group) Design and Science – Can design advance science, and can science advance design? by Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab) I would summarize these two articles, but I couldn’t find any better way to word their ideas than…

Honestly… I still have trouble explaining what I do to people. And everything in this post is purely my opinion, take it with a grain of salt. But, back to the subject, living in 2019, there’s a plethora of emerging technologies that are now fairly easily accessible for individuals to get started with. Along with…

January 5 & 12 at 5PM and 9PM | January 7-11 at 7:30PM | Post-show conversation on Jan 11 at Irondale “Rock music and Rube-Goldberg- cinematography collide in a cathartic and inventive music-theatre experience. The Infinite Hotel invites live audiences to become ‘extras’ and step inside an elaborate movie-making machine, producing a one-take feature film…

What sounds go into silence? Have you ever noticed that there’s never actually moments of actual “silence” when you’re watching a film/tv show? (In fact, when Star Wars The Last Jedi actually decided to include a silent scene that lasted 10 seconds, movie theaters had to put up warning signs since too many people complained…

Go take a vacation. It’s healthy. I’m writing this blog post in a hotel in Amsterdam. I finally decided to take a nice week long vacation, after a pretty crazy year. And I can’t stress this enough, you can get burned out – make sure to take care of your mind and body. Work is…

Another subject I’m really excited about is the intersection between VR and neuroscience. There’s some extremely interesting projects utilizing VR to explore how the VR machine we’re all outfitted with, our brain, works. A saying I really like to use is, “the best VR device out right now is our brain – it’s essentially a…

Something I’m really excited about the VR and AR mediums is the development of spatialized audio. I love sound designing, especially for animated films, because it’s about world building. In a film, it’s not the visuals that tell you what you’re supposed to feel at any moment, but the soundscape — the music, the foley…

A couple weeks back during one of our research meetings, Ken asked everyone to imagine what a world without screens could be like and to prototype them at the lab. It’s a question I’ve been fascinated with and curious to see what path we actually end up taking to get there. I figured I’d share…

A followup blog from my last post on Notch. Last week I wrote about picking up a new software, called Notch, this week I’m going to post some of the work in progress / BTS of the visuals I made for the Sheck Wes x Spotify concert at the Harlem Parish on Monday. (Sadly, it…