EMRE FINDIK
HOSHI!
A projection-mapped animated short movie made by a team of five students at the Entertainment Technology Center as the semester project for Fall 2017. The experience is projected on the surface of a desk with real-life props. I was a programmer, set designer and sound designer on the team.
The setting is that of a work desk with commonplace props on it including a mug, a screen and a mouse. In addition, there are origami animals and a book with instructions for making origami, which sets the theme for the experience. We used Unity3D to put the animation together and set up the virtual environment..
A rough outline of the setup
The experience utilizes projection mapping to create 3D illusions, with virtual props coming to life to tell the story of two origami characters. The virtual characters also interact with physical props, which adds further entertainment value. The inclusion of physical props and perspective illusions in this way was key to our experience design, and received a lot of positive feedback from viewers.
As sound designer, I was responsible of designing and placing all the sound effects, in addition to composing musical cues for enhancing the emotion of the experience. I used sound as a way to add to the immersion and realism by paying close attention to spatialization, using small speakers we attached to the four corners of the table.
In my role as a programmer, I set up the scene architecture, built an auto-calibration system for the virtual cameras in the scene to map to our physical environment correctly, and coded the transformations between the virtual environment, the physical environment and the camera view.