Blog | Jack Chen

May 9, 2022
1 min

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...

Apr 20, 2022
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...

Apr 7, 2022
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,...

Mar 27, 2022
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...

Mar 17, 2022
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...

Mar 14, 2022
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...

Mar 3, 2022
1 min

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...

Feb 20, 2022
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...

Feb 19, 2022
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....

Feb 10, 2022
1 min

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...

Jan 30, 2022
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...

Jan 29, 2022
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:...

Jan 13, 2022
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...

Nov 28, 2021
1 min

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...

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...

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...

Oct 19, 2021
1 min

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...

Oct 10, 2021
1 min

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...

Oct 3, 2021
1 min

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...

Sep 20, 2021
1 min

MRF: Space Station in Unreal Engine

This week, I built out the space surveillance station envisioned last week