Author: marynotari
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[Virtual Production] Building A Level From Scratch
Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to create a level based on the idea my group came up with during our brainstorm: In Unreal, I created a new level using the Vehicle Template rather than the Third Person Template, based on the main action of my scene description. I had in my…
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[Virtual Production] Skeletal Meshes, Materials, Textures, and Blueprints
Continued from this post. I finally figured out how to use Blueprints. It had been bothering me to no end that the characters I created in MakeHuman did not seem to display all their textures when imported into UE4. Specifically, my eyes were all black and my eyelashes were unnatural–though stylish–black chunks. After poking around…
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[Distributed Learning] Reflections on Mary-nara
1. Describe the outline of your attempt to instruct others. What task or tasks did you adopt? What tool or tools did you use? I attempted to instruct others on how to make my version of marinara sauce––both live and one-on-one on Zoom and through a blog post on this website. 2. What worked? What…
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[Virtual Production] Character Animation
Despite there being files on the shared VR Station 1 on the ITP Floor from 2019, the world I had built for last week’s assignment has disappeared. Pour one out for my grasslands tutorial world. For this week’s assignment, I just put my character in a random level I was previously using to just get…
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[Distributed Learning] How to Make Mary-nara
There are many ways of making marinara depending on taste, region, and family tradition. Even within my own family, there are disagreements on how to make a proper marinara. My mother is ashamed that I put crushed red pepper in mine while I consider adding carrots sacrilege. I’m going to walk you through how to…
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[Distributed Learning] Teaching Two Tasks, One Way
UPDATE: I changed my plan to teach one taks––making marinara––using two methods: WordPress Blog and Zoom. TASK: make marinara METHODS: Google Docs, Zoom ALTERNATIVES: artifact vs. live video, injection vs. conversation TASK: Do the basic cafe-con-pan step of zapateado METHODS: Facebook Video Tutorials, Zoom ALTERNATIVE: recorded vs. live, Mexican (internal) vs. American (external) For my…
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[Live Web] Interactive Websites That I Love: CODENAMES
Since the quarantine, I have become intimately familiar with online games. One of my all-time favorites is CODENAMES. Originally, it was a table top card game, but some internet saint created a streamlined online version. While it’s a difficult game to play, it is exceedingly simple in its execution. The rules go like this: There…
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[Virtual Production] My First Level in Unreal
Constructed using this tutorial: Your First Hour with Unreal Grabbed meshes and materials from “Infinity Blade: Grass Lands,” a free content pack from Epic.
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[Body Everywhere] Pixel Array Interactions
Simple Webcam in p5.js I started off––like I normally do with new programming concepts––by breaking them down to the basic elements to make sure I understand them. I simplified the code example given by Lisa Jamhoury in class so that it would just create a p5 webcam: Playing Around With Frame Difference I then played…
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[D4LP] Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Initial Response
I love this show. I have been a fan of Hedwig since 2003 when I first saw the movie as a freshman in college. Wig in a Box is one of my karaoke go-tos. I feel it’s important to note that to understand this show, one should appreciate the queer nightlife circuit of drag and cabaret performers and the combination of personal storytelling and…