Conclusion
What a crazy few months it has been! Just a week or two before we submitted our project to Sony Talent League we would've never expected to be working almost full time on an animated VR project with a new technology we've never...
Signal, a VR story
Mapo
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Andrey Kolesov
Sebastian Doringer
STL
Signal is an interactive VR experience that follows the story of a CODA, a Child of Deaf Adults. It uses the latest VR hand tracking technology in order to teach the viewers the basics of sign language, while bringing them closer to the deaf culture.
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Project diary
Final last steps
On this week of Sony Talent League we have made sure to finally finish our Unity demo, fixing all the bugs and delivering a complete VR demo of our intention for this project. At the same time we've been working hard on creatin...
Choosing Priorities
Week 8 turned out to be a point where we slowly started to see the end for project Signal getting closer. A point that made us proud when looking back at what we hade acchieved so far, but also a point that made us realize that...
Handle a Variety of Tasks
Week 7 of team Mapo’s journey on Signal was a big variety of tasks to handle. First of all, we kept going with the animation of the old man. We continued blocking out his most important poses and started animating the first sig...
Assemblage
On this week of Sony Talent League we put our focus on assembling all our existing elements into Unity, and also continued working on animation and story. With the help of our mentors, we have reached a point were we feel co...
Animation and Story
On this week of Sony Talent League we continued developing both the story and the animation side of our project. We continuously have been asking ourselves questions regarding the message we want to convey with our interactive ...
Modeling and Back to Research
Week 4. Another week, another challenge. Not only was it one of the tightest weeks Team Mapo had to face so far (next to “Signal” we had to manage a busy job, a film festival we attended and being sick for days, all at once), ...
Pre-Production
Week 3. In the third week of the journey to our immersive VR experience we have officially stepped into the phase of pre-production. After doing a lot of research and looking for a ton of references in the past few weeks we ha...
Story and Development
Week 2. The second week of the Sony Talent League was for Team Mapo all about story. Before we were able to move on to focus on the aesthetics of our interactive VR story, like visual development, background or character desig...
Discovery and Prototyping
Week 1. Last Monday Team Mapo finally reunited and we excitedly started our journey on project “Signal”. Although we had a concept in our heads that we were happy with, we knew that there is a long way in front of us. Fir...