PROJECTS
Weapons through time
The project
Weapons through time was my minor skilled project. The minor skilled is all about setting your own goals and working towards that. I wanted to concentrate on 3D modeling and texturing.
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Weapon selection
After the weapon research I had to figure out which weapons i should make. For this i made a list of different time periods, wrote down their weapons and choose a couple of them per time period.
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The goal
When I started the minor I wanted to get better at 3D modeling and texturing. The goal was to get faster and better at it. 3D modeling used to take me a lot of time. I always got stuck on the small details and found it hard to work from low poly to high poly and the other way around.
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3D modeling
After this minor I have almost doubled my modeling speed and got more comfortable with working from low to high poly.
In my work you can tell what was made at the start of the minor and what was made at the end.
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Weapons Through time
Why weapons through time you might ask. Like mentioned before, i wanted to become better and faster at modeling. I was never any good at making hand hold weapons so decided that my minor would be focused on them.
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Texturing
Texturing wasn't very difficult, the most difficult part was finding the right materials and textures. I used free textures online, textures I made the year before for a assignment and the standard textures from substance painter.
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Research
Research started with going to museums and looking at real life weapons at the National military museum in Soest. Sketching some of the weapons on a notebook just to get the feel for the shapes and sizes.
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Renders
Some renders where made using Blender and other renders where made in Marmoset.
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Sub Zero
The project
The project was all about teaching about detection of objects using the frequency spectrum. It was supposed to be a game for children to play in a museum. You could choose to either use a tablet as your gaming platform or use VR. There where only 4 teams that would be able to use them VR setup and the groups where chosen by their pitches. In the end we where one of those chosen groups. In the end we where chosen as the best serious VR game of our year.
My role
The main role I had in this project was paper work, supervising the group, making sure everything was up to standards and so forth. Next to this I also worked on a little bit of 3D modeling and decorating the scene.
Limitations
Since the game had to be optimized for VR and the computer hardware of the museum where pretty low we had to hand in part quality/detail of assets. you can really see this in the orca and hammerhead models.
Working in a small group
This project had a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 people in a team. We where by far the smallest team, 4 people. We chose this for efficiency, motivation and specialization. We had one programmer, and 3 artists. One of those artist is considered a speed modeler. The other wanted to learn more about sound design and do some 3D modeling on the side. And then you have me, I knew i wanted to focus more on scenes and documentation since I was struggling with that at the time.
Sanity // Shift
The project
The whole project was based around the 3D engine the programmers of the team had made. A game needed to be made in it using that engine.
My role
In this project I worked mostly on 3D modeling, texturing and on populating the some of the scenes.
Limitations
Because of the home made engine we hard to work around some limitations, one of these limitations was that animations where a no go. To solve this we made it so the enemy only moved when you could not see it. We did this my replacing one model for the model in a different pose. This way it looked like the enemy is moving, while in fact he was not.
Internship: XR lab / Promotie Enchede
Stage: Visie Groep
Who is Millie?
Millie is a fictional grand daughter of van Heek, they would be able to talk about their
grandfathers stories.
With this child we would be able to make our own
narrative. The grandchild is not directly connected to
the past event it can also tell stories about recent events or events that are currently going
on
Software used
- Vroid studio for creating the 3D model.
- Photoshop to edit the textures of the model
-EVMC4U and EasyMotionRecorder for the motioncapture
- Unity for editing of animations and implementation into the app
The Company
Promotie Enschede focuses on tourism, city marketing and events. They have a team of 20
people, 14 of them are on payroll and the other 6 are interns and people that work there
temporarily. The company is a foundation and therefore subsidized by the government.
They sometimes exchange knowledge with other tourist companies , but are an independent
organization. For every Project they define there target audience with the statistics from De
Binnenstadmonitor, this is a website that tracks how many people visited Enschede, how
long they stayed, where they came from, etc.Promotie Enschede tries to work on a creative,
technical and innovative city. The company’s role is to give advice, information and
organize/help events like Koningsfestival and Winter Wonderland.
They are currently developing an AR tour in Enschede about the history of Enschede
The Project
Promotie Enschede wanted something innovative for in an app. A earlier group had already
made said app and they were creating building for in the app. The task for me was to add a
new component to this app. Thing that were mentioned are a puzzle though out the app or
maybe an extra building. I sat down with Marl the company supervisor and we looked at a
similar app from a tour in a different country. Here we found figures talking to the user and
this inspired us. A whole new element to the app, a person who would talk to the user make
the experience feel more personal. With potential to be used out side of the app too.
So for this project I will make a 3D animated humanoid prototype, for an AR (Augmented
Reality) walking route from Promotie Enschede and a manual for how to edit this model. The
target audience is children from the ages of 10 to 12.
My role
My role during this internship is to help the participants with
anything 3D. While doing this I also set up a project (THE GAME) to make micro games and I work on the weekly challenges.
THE GAME
THE GAME is a game made out of micro games. I choose to work with micro games so that participants don't have to have a long time commitment. they make something within a day or week or month and they are done. The participants only make the assets and I code it and put it into unity.
The Company
Visie groep works with people who need to reintegrate in the work society. These people are currently unable to function correctly in a normal company. They setup a work environment and help them get back to work. Next to this they also give ambulatory guidance and daytime activities. In this work environment they do activities in the directions of: Programming, 3D modeling, Making websites and web shops, photography, design, network management & network security.
Weekly challenge
Every week there is a new challenge to tackle, a new theme every week where you make anything, as long as it fits within the theme. From space to dream to birthday, the theme gets announced on Monday morning and last weeks theme will be presented Monday afternoon.