Pasan Dharmasena

At this point, I have finished cleaning the mocap data and the facial animations for all of the characters, except for the 3rd scene for the monster. I have moved on to the “contact pass” for all of the animation. For this pass, I’m reviewing all of the animations for each character and making sure

I’ve been gone from the lab for the last 2 weeks, visiting family in Sri Lanka. In that time, the Monster’s character rig had been finished. So, I spent this week completing the facial animation for the monster in scene 4. The facial structure of the monster was a lot different from the other characters

The last few weeks I’ve been finishing the facial mocap for all the characters in the Mary and the Monster project. The work within the Faceware software is almost done, I only have 1 scene left for each of the characters. The work in the Faceware system has been slow and tedious. Some of the

The museum is due in about a week. The last few days, I have been focusing on the lighting of the museum and trying to make it as presentable as possible with what we have. The museum is functional on a basic level. It is able to load between different scenes and contains multiple student

The last few weeks I’ve been working on the interior for the museum. After planning for a few days, I made a blockout of the interior and made a lighting test. I’m pretty happy with the way it’s come out so far but the space feels a bit too empty and static. The walkways connecting

This week, we were able to do some mocap tests with actors to get ready for our next production for SIGGRAPH. The tests went well and most of the data was really easy to clean except for a few problems with the actors’ feet – they probably grazed some of the markers on their legs

With the start of the new semester this last week, I realized that I have only 2 months to finish my museum. There’s a lot left to do in regards to the modeling and visual development of the structure but it occurred to me that I hadn’t put a lot of thought into the player

For the last week or so, I’ve been working with the Faceware software to create facial animations for Ayara for the final version of CAVE. There were a lot of issues with our license and some with the software itself but after a few days of emailing Faceware, we got most of it sorted out

I’ve been working on my museum for a while now and I’m closer than ever to finishing the project. The last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Unity’s terrain system which has been both fun and frustrating. It’s fun to see things come together and look nice but I’m frustrated by the limitations of

For the last month or so, I’ve been working on creating a library of assets for students to access. The idea is to make low-poly assets that students could use within their own projects. This would prevent them from having to spend time looking for or creating extra assets and allow them to focus on