Pressure Project 2
Posted: October 17, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »In this project, I was inspired by Charles Csuri’s line work that appears in his work swan lake piece and his humming bird piece.
I experimented with various actors to manipulate the webcam image, such as difference, gaussian blur, shimmer, in order to impact how the eyes ++ actor was responding to the live capture. I wanted more simultaneous capturing of multiple moving objects, and i found the reflector actor to serve my intended purpose well. The numbers generated by the eyes ++ actors were fed into scale, position etc of the moving elements.
As for the moving visual elements, I created simple line drawings using photoshop, and exported them as PNGs with transparent backrgounds. I managed to device a way to call various images into the background using the numbers from the eyes ++ actor. See screenshot below. I will be using this more.
In the work, I also experimented with the 3D Particle generator, but it was not very successful. There were just too many sliders to account for, and after tinkering with it for 2-3 hours, it feels like I only have a sense of what 20% of them do. I also managed to work in the get stage image actor and capture stage to image actor, which I will be experimenting more for cycle 1 of my project.
Here’s my patch to share if you are interested.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Tq5N5q7md8nW2IadXUaUh_7EnQI9PIo/view?usp=sharing