Focus pulling for Virtual Camera (Unreal Engine + Arduino)
This is an implementation of my project idea from the previous blog: https://www.jackchen.art/post/jack-chen-concept-map Using the...
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- Apr 20
- 1 min
Jack Chen Concept Map
My concept outlines the plan for making a virtual camera focus pulling device. In real life film sets, a crew member will be responsible...
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- Apr 7
- 1 min
Fast fun: New controller iteration
This week, I created a new iteration for my cube game controller. The new controller consist of two cubes sliding across two tracks,...
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- Mar 27
- 2 min
Haptics labs
Hello Vibe Motors - We had the chance to work with Vibration motors for this class, the motors comes with very small wires so the first...
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- Mar 17
- 4 min
March 17th update - EEG & OSC to UE, Erosion, Earth & Atom Shaders
I've added many more things to my project since the last update, to document my work in progress, I made this WIP trailer for the project...
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- Mar 14
- 1 min
Fast Fun: Arduino MIDI to Unity
Based on the setup from this week's lesson, I created a new controller for my cube dropping game in Unity. This time, two potentiometers...
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- Mar 3
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Synthetic Architecture - Reality Threshold (Thesis segment)
For the reality threshold project, I created a scene which will be a part of my thesis project. Some of the notable mechanics I included...
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- Feb 20
- 1 min
Fast Fun Week 4: Arduino keyboard to Unity
This week, I made a simple 2 push buttons input controller with Arduino connected to Unity using the keyboard Library. The game is a 2...
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- Feb 19
- 3 min
Thesis update Feb 19
Since the last blog, I've refined the "storyboard" for the VR experience further - describing each segment of the experience in order....
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- Feb 10
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Fast Fun week 3: 4 button input Unity
This week, we were assigned to make a fast and simple game prototype in unity which uses 4 buttons to control. I created a modified...
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- Jan 30
- 1 min
Thesis experiment - black hole shader & interactive particles
I did my first technical experiment for my thesis today, testing out a black hole shader and making a interactive particle system with...
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- Jan 29
- 2 min
Thesis: semester 2 week 1 check in
I decided to switch from the collective Wordpress blog to my personal blog, here is a link to my previous thesis blogs:...
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- Jan 13
- 2 min
Mixed Reality Music Video
For our final project, our team decided to fully experiment with the potentials of combining Unreal Engine's world building and composure...
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- Nov 28, 2021
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Fabrication WK4
This week I expanded on my project from last week by making an enclosure for the light to be able to project onto the patterned board...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
Fabrication WK3: Laser Cutter
This week I tried to make an Acrylic light with LED base. I begin the process with a red transparent acrylic board, spray painted black...
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- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
MRF - Unreal Engine Composure to After Effects test
This week we continued the After Effects > Maya > Unreal Engine pipeline by using composure in Unreal Engine to generate foreground and...
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- Oct 19, 2021
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MRF - After Effects & Maya Sync
This week, I synced up a 3D scene between After Effects and Maya as a part of the After Effects > Maya > Unreal Engine match move...
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- Oct 10, 2021
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MRF - motion match using After Effects (test)
This week, I did a matchmove compositing test using After Effects on a shot from my recent short film. Although the render needs a lot...
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- Oct 3, 2021
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MRF - Video Compositing in Unreal Engine & After Effects
This week, I created a video composite using After Effects, Unreal Engine, and Premiere by keying the greenscreen in After effects, then...
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- Sep 20, 2021
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MRF: Space Station in Unreal Engine
This week, I built out the space surveillance station envisioned last week
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