Pasan Dharmasena

Over the last 2 weeks, Thomas and I had been figuring out how to get good facial capture results through the use of Faceware. I mentioned in my previous post that I was really looking forward to working with the tech and that it seemed pretty straightforward. And I was right. The software is very

The past 2 weeks have been a blur. I’ve been helping out with a bunch of different projects at the lab and a couple of personal projects. I’ve worked on creating concepts for various theater configurations, visualizations for the Verizon AR application, and 3D printing figuring to visualize a large number of seated people. I’m excited about

The last 2 weeks, I’ve been working on various projects relating to SIGGRAPH 2019 and I don’t think I am able to talk about that work yet. So here is an update on my museum project which I have been slowly working on for the last few weeks.   I recently finished the blocking out

This week, I began learning a little bit of Cinema 4D. It’s another 3D modeling software known mostly for its motion graphics suite. I took 2 -3 days to learn the basics of modeling and UV mapping in Cinema 4D. I made a piggy bank.               As someone who

For the last 2 weeks, I continued my work on CAVE. My task was to a normal map for the original texture of the cave which could then be baked onto the cave. I created a 3D model of the texture, sculpted it to give it more details, then baked the normal information onto a

I’ve continued working with substance painter this week. I am trying to figure out a style for the textures of the museum. I want them to be evocative of Overwatch. The textures and geometry need to be a blend of realistic and stylized. Overwatch is a game created by Blizzard which is known for its

Recently I began work on a new version of the virtual museum I created a few months back. The goal is to take the time to make the museum more visually appealing as well as a bit more user-friendly. As part of my efforts to make everything look better, I began learning how to use Substance

The problems in my last post were not resolved. I believe the problem didn’t have to do specifically with my character rig but rather in the way the Maya’s HumanIK system works as I had the same problem with other rigs. I decided to ignore the issue and work only with the initially recorded mocap

In my last post, I said I would discuss motion capture in relation to keyframe animation. Unfortunately, I was not able to complete everything I wanted for this post due to unforeseen complications with the character rigs. I will talk about the things I was able to finish for this week in this post and

With the production on CAVE coming to an end, I have gone back to working on keyframe animation. It’s something I think that has the potential to look better than mocap, if done correctly, but we couldn’t use it for CAVE due to the amount of time it takes to do it. I started to