Installations
When I’m not designing games, I like to explore the synthesis of interaction media, music, and real world spaces.
I had the opportunity to design, develop and install several interactive projections at live events, in collaboration with a small collective of friends under the name 3Spooky. These pieces were created using the Unity3D game engine, combined Microsoft Kinect sensor to detect movement and allow viewers to interact with the scenes.
Each piece was an animated diorama, a narrative vignette, featuring original characters and tailored to the themes of the events. These projects were an opportunity for me to practice the visual side of development, from modelling and animation to tech art, including developing custom shaders and particle effects that responded in real time to live music and movement.
Scavenger
Team: Colin Egge, Andrew Sutlif, James Staley
Tools: Unity3D, Blender, Microsoft Kinect
Created for Together House and Techno festival, this piece narrative diorama of a lone scavenger who has built a audiovisual oasis, a place to recharge and regain creative headspace in the midst of a chaotic cyberpunk dystopia.
Big groovy speakers and other visual effects bump to the music from a live DJ. Festival goers can play with the space, disrupt physical objects in the scene, and trigger high energy visual effects. Their likeness is featured as a hologram emanating from one of our Scavenger's gadgets. The many TV screens also serve as a virtual art gallery featuring artists from around the world. Users can swipe through channels of surreal beat synced animations.
Featured at:
Together Festival, Boston 2017
Play! Convention NYC 2017
Dancingbear
Team: Colin Egge, Andrew Sutlif, James Staley
Tools: Unity3D, Blender, Microsoft Kinect
Dancingbear is an interactive character, projected at human scale. He’ll tend to his campsite, lounge, gather firewood, and hangout. He’ll respond to your greetings, and if he sees high-energy movement, might break into a dance. Most importantly, if you come and sit, he will join you in meditation, whereupon his environment will evolve into an entrancing, spiritually evocative composition.
The piece is meant to encourage meditation and stillness - and quiet interactions with the piece and among its audience.
Featured at:
Fractalfest, 2016