Student: Vincent Johnson
Work: “๑ubstance”
Genre: Generative Design & 3D Scanning
Length: 1:20
Format: Video 16:9, 24 fps
Production techique: 3DF Zephyr, Blender / HP Omen, Old Dslr / Generating & combining procedural textures
Details:
The goal of my work was to create a generative landscape of organic structures using different procedural textures in Blender. I generated severeal unique noise patterns by combining, adding, and multiplying different Voronoi noise textures using math nodes. Also, I will took some real-world 3D Scans of different organic textures like e.g. branches, leaves and combined them with the generated assets.
I wanted to create an eerie, surreal atmosphere, playing with the human perception of life and organic substances. I think humans have a sense for what in our enviroment belongs to a living organism. The viewer leaves with a feeling of not knowing if what is seen is real or not, dead or alive, desirable, or dangerous. I experimented with how humans react to different textures e.g. like fleshy or wet surfaces. Will they break out in a cold sweat and raise hackles? Will it feel natural, pleasing, or even appetizing? My work exaggerates reality and explores all the different associations’ people have with living beings in their newly generated raw structure. To empathize that I used desaturated imagery and rim lighting. I wanted to concentrate only on the core & raw structure. I animated them proceduraly by using fractal noise as displacement maps. In the end I worked with sound as well ans experimented with fleshy sound effects.
Work: “๑ubstance”
Genre: Generative Design & 3D Scanning
Length: 1:20
Format: Video 16:9, 24 fps
Production techique: 3DF Zephyr, Blender / HP Omen, Old Dslr / Generating & combining procedural textures
Details:
The goal of my work was to create a generative landscape of organic structures using different procedural textures in Blender. I generated severeal unique noise patterns by combining, adding, and multiplying different Voronoi noise textures using math nodes. Also, I will took some real-world 3D Scans of different organic textures like e.g. branches, leaves and combined them with the generated assets.
I wanted to create an eerie, surreal atmosphere, playing with the human perception of life and organic substances. I think humans have a sense for what in our enviroment belongs to a living organism. The viewer leaves with a feeling of not knowing if what is seen is real or not, dead or alive, desirable, or dangerous. I experimented with how humans react to different textures e.g. like fleshy or wet surfaces. Will they break out in a cold sweat and raise hackles? Will it feel natural, pleasing, or even appetizing? My work exaggerates reality and explores all the different associations’ people have with living beings in their newly generated raw structure. To empathize that I used desaturated imagery and rim lighting. I wanted to concentrate only on the core & raw structure. I animated them proceduraly by using fractal noise as displacement maps. In the end I worked with sound as well ans experimented with fleshy sound effects.
Final Contribution:
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Group homework:
Homework:
I wanted to bring a painting that my father drew 40 years ago to life. So I took a photo of it, cut it into layers and composed/animated it using Blender & After Effects. For the animation of the character, I used Mixamo.
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Homework:
12.08.2008 Manhattan, NY
2 robots coming closer to each other. One white, one brown. „Regal Cinema“ is written in big bold letters underneath. Noises of Taxis, busses, and people on 42nd Street. 2 robots caged inside a 3m² big frame. The imprisoning billboard letting them touch and split in perpetual motion. Not being bothered about the hustle and bustle outside the door.
Flashing lights, colorful and saturated seduce me to step inside. Wondering if both beings will find each other, I take my seat. I watch how they become freed by 24 Images per second. A futuristic concept of life would change the way I work in the future.
Still, 2 beings are stuck on a billboard on 42nd Street until the next motion picture arrives.
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Homework:
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"๑ubstance" from Vincent Johnson on Vimeo.
Group homework:
Immersed Narratives: Generative Design HyperNormalisation
Homework:
Creating a loop using CGI
I wanted to bring a painting that my father drew 40 years ago to life. So I took a photo of it, cut it into layers and composed/animated it using Blender & After Effects. For the animation of the character, I used Mixamo.
Homework:
Writing a short story
12.08.2008 Manhattan, NY
2 robots coming closer to each other. One white, one brown. „Regal Cinema“ is written in big bold letters underneath. Noises of Taxis, busses, and people on 42nd Street. 2 robots caged inside a 3m² big frame. The imprisoning billboard letting them touch and split in perpetual motion. Not being bothered about the hustle and bustle outside the door.
Flashing lights, colorful and saturated seduce me to step inside. Wondering if both beings will find each other, I take my seat. I watch how they become freed by 24 Images per second. A futuristic concept of life would change the way I work in the future.
Still, 2 beings are stuck on a billboard on 42nd Street until the next motion picture arrives.
Homework:
First “wow” moment
