5 Min Presentation

 5 Min Presentation 

As part of the 702 unit, we must complete a 5 minute presentation about our past work and our future aims as a way of introducing ourselves and our work to our peers. This will be followed in a month's time where we will present a 10 minute presentation about how our work is progressing and how our research is informing our practice. 

For these 5 minute presentations we were given the option of producing a 2 by 4 or an academic poster, though we were encouraged to produce this using our own skills and interests. After looking at the example 2 by 4s and academic posters I decided that these were more appropriate for fine artists and did not suit animation and my work, I began to think of other ways I could link my animation practice to this. I knew that producing the presentation in stop motion (my main area of practice) would be a no go, as it is too time consuming to produce, I also know that while I could produce the work in 2D animation, again the time frame to complete would be an issue, 2D is also not an area in which I work predominantly so it didn't fit with the idea of introducing myself. 

After further consideration I thought of creating the presentation in VR, this would link the presentation to my masters project. After confirming that it was ok to do this, I started to think of ways to include my past work and ways I could produce a presentation in VR. I decided to use Tilt Brush software to create the presentation. My original plan was to create a VR art gallery of my work, but I once again ended up feeling that this didn't fit animation. It was only after painting a VR environment in Tilt Brush that I realized this was the way I could link both my past and future work together. I decided that I would take screenshots of my past animations, import them into Tilt Brush and then paint a VR environment that was themed around each image. 

I first drew these draft sketches of the plan for the layout, making a few changes as I progressed.

Draft sketches

Once the draft sketches were completed I collected my images, imported them into VR and began to paint the environment. I decided that I would paint an element that fitted each story of the stop motion and puppets that I created. For the puppets I made for an animation about a watch shop, I painted a shop with candles that when you looked through the window you would see the clock maker at work, as well as some painted street lanterns I also added an image from a Victorian street to make the elements feel more like they were in an environment. This section of the environment can be seen here:

For the palm oil animation I made I painted a tree and added the images into the branches, I linked this one with the snow white puppet (as the story was set in a forest) by painting rocks at the base of the tree, painting a fire and adding the image into the rocks. Again I added some surrounding images to make it feel more like an environment. This section of the environment can be seen here:

For the wardrobe animation I made I took an image of the wolf, painted a wardrobe door for it to hide behind, I added fog to make it seem more scary and then finished by adding an image of Boo from monsters incs bedroom to fit with the story of monsters in the closet.  This section of the environment can be seen here:

Once this was completed I recorded a video of the environment as I was in it, I then exported this out and edited the video on Adobe premier and re rendered out the footage. I didn't add sound as I will need to speak over this while I am presenting. Here is the finished video: 

While I am very happy with the resulting video I do feel the environment has a greater impact when in VR, for this reason I will present the video so all peers and tutors online can see it, but I will also have a VR headset set up in university so that anyone who wishes to look at it in VR is able to do so.