Project Proposal

Project Brief – Fixed

Idea starts

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Mind map & Inspiration Board

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Contact sheet – Primary research – Humor and Satire

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Memory – Manipulation – Secondary research

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Artist research week

Rashomon Report

Deformation Reports

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Detroit: Become Human and the type of game that I want to develop

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Story Choosing

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The Man and the Lion – Jefferys Taylor

A MAN and a lion once had a dispute,
Which was reckoned the greatest, the man or the brute,
The lion discoursed on his side at some length,
And greatly enlarged on his courage and strength.

The man, one would think, had enough to reply
On his side the question, which none could deny;
But, like many others who make a pretence,
He talk’d perfect nonsense and thought it was sense.

“So,” said he, “don’t be prating, look yonder, I pray,
At that sculpture of marble, now what will you say?”
The lion is vanquish’d; but, as for the man,
He is striding upon him; deny it who can.

“But pray,” said the lion, “who sculptured that stone?”
“One of us,” said the man, “I must cand’dly own;”
“But when we are sculptors,” the other replied
“You will then on the man see the lion astride.

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The man might have added, if he had been wise,
“But a beast cannot sculpture a stone if he tries.”
That sufficiently shows where the difference lies.

Moral

“It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story”.

Corresponding illustrations

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VR Game Synopses

Character design – MAN

MAN thumbnail sketches

Problem

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Solution

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Character design – LION

As with man’s character creation, if a character uses a specific region, language, etc., it knows what will disrupt the character’s overall concentration and identity. As the man and the lion are universal regardless of race, my goal is to form the most universal character representing each.

Problem:

Before making lions in the early days, I looked at the distribution and types of lions. Most lions inhabit Africa, India, and rarely in the hotter regions of Europe in the past. Lions, which are distributed only in southern Europe such as the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Italy, Greece, and Macedonia, are classified as European lions or generally Asian lions. Lions in the Aesop story and Greek mythology are also likely to be Asian lions.
However, when designing the character, I considered the distribution of lions around the modern era, and mostly considered only Indian or African lions. Thus, as a male character corresponding to a lion, I designed the background of 19th-century Europeans, such as the British army that occupied India in the past, and the British, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Belgium who divided Africa. Or, it was designed in anticipation of the faces of indigenous peoples who existed like lions before, which was designed as a Turkish Indian male.
Even this historical approach was good, but it was unreasonable to design based on historical facts, and there was a setback in the overall character formation. Moreover, I found it could be controversial issues al well.

Solution:

In addition to the man, I designed the lion with the most universal image in mind.

3D Weight paint based drawing

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Game concepts sketches

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3D character creation

1. Modelling

Create the big part first

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Problem

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1-2. Create the second (detailed) part

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MAN

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Wrapping

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2. Poly-Colouring (UV Painting)

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Lion’s eyes – Problem

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Lion’s eyes – Solution

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Rig + Weight paint

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3. Animating

No Mixamo

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Man animation reference filming

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Animating – Shape Keys

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Facial animation using Shape keys

Man’s viewpoint

Lion’s viewpoint

Extra meshes

Failure – Cloth making

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Marble Statue

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Environmental design 1 – 1

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1 – 2

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Forest

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Problem – There was no need to make textures in Blender

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First Scene & Last Scene Design

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UNITY or Unreal Engine 4 ?

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Basic VR settings

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VR hands settings – Problem

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.XR;

public class HandPresence : MonoBehaviour
{
    public List<GameObject> controllerPrefabs;
    private InputDevice targetDevice;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        List<InputDevice> devices = new List<InputDevice>();
        InputDeviceCharacteristics rightControllerCharacteristics = InputDeviceCharacteristics.Right | InputDeviceCharacteristics.Controller;
        InputDevices.GetDevicesWithCharacteristics(rightControllerCharacteristics, devices);

        foreach (var item in devices)
        {
            Debug.Log(item.name + item.characteristics);

        }
        if (devices.Count > 0)
        {
            targetDevice = devices[0];
        }

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
      
        if (targetDevice.TryGetFeatureValue(CommonUsages.primaryButton, out bool primaryButtonValue)  && primaryButtonValue)
            Debug.Log("Pressing Primary Button");

       
        if (targetDevice.TryGetFeatureValue(CommonUsages.trigger, out float triggerValue) && triggerValue > 0.1f)
            Debug.Log("Trigger pressed" + triggerValue);

      
        if (targetDevice.TryGetFeatureValue(CommonUsages.primary2DAxis, out Vector2 primary2DAxisValue) && primary2DAxisValue != Vector2.zero)
            Debug.Log("Primary Touchpad" + primary2DAxisValue);

    }
}

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VR hand I’ve done so far

The script where the problem occurred

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.XR;

public class HandPresence : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool showController = false;
    public InputDeviceCharacteristics controllerCharacteristics;
    public List<GameObject> controllerPrefabs;
    public GameObject handModelPrefab;



    private InputDevice targetDevice;
    private GameObject spawnedController;
    private GameObject spawnedHandModel;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        List<InputDevice> devices = new List<InputDevice>();
     
        InputDevices.GetDevicesWithCharacteristics(controllerCharacteristics, devices);

        foreach (var item in devices)
        {
            Debug.Log(item.name + item.characteristics);

        }
        if (devices.Count > 0)
        {
            targetDevice = devices[0];
            GameObject prefab = controllerPrefabs.Find(controller => controller.name == targetDevice.name);
            {
               spawnedController = Instantiate(prefab, transform);
            }
            spawnedHandModel = Instantiate(handModelPrefab, transform);
        }

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
      
        if (showController)
        {
            spawnedHandModel.SetActive(false);
            spawnedController.SetActive(true);
        }
        else
        {

            spawnedHandModel.SetActive(true);
            spawnedController.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}

Haptic Events

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Blender – texture missing Problem, Solution

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Problem – Transparency Lion

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No Solution

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Game Animation

Lighting Problem

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Script for Voice Over

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Music & Voice Over

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Voice Over, Sound editing

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Scene change Programming

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;



public class SceneSwitch : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update






    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);




    }
}

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Animation inside Unity

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Blood Particle system

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Final Scene

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Final game playing

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Final Evaluation

I applied for the university department focusing on VR and Games design. I thought about which of these two disciplines I should choose my career path, and by making my own VR game as this final project, I tried to find out about my aptitude and the current industry. Through Unit 13, I chose a course towards Games design. This was a very important unit for me, as it was a decision I made after experiencing the process of character design, game synopsis, programming, 3D character, and animation.

This project is also meaningful in that I learned C# more professionally. This is my third attempt for a Unity game using C#, and I learned more tips than the first. With this project, I became interested in computer languages ​​such as Blueprint, Java, and C++ in Unreal Engine 4. From the first unit, my interest in fine arts started to be interesting in engineering studies such as computer programming. The advantage is that my perspective on art has expanded.

However, I have never neglected artistic and humanities research while conducting technical research. After reading Ryutosuke Akutakawa’s collection of short stories, I found out that among his works,’In a Grove’ and’Rashomon’ had a great influence on Akira Kurosawa’s’Rashomon’. Also, I have been thinking for a long time how to visualize the’Rashomon’ effect newly by linking the’Rashomon’ effect to memory variability and deformation transients. And my reinterpretation is as follows: Each character bears a testimony or memory in his favor. In this process, the elements you want to emphasize are visually distorted. This is why I investigated the effects of fashion and deformations in Europe in the 20th century.

From now on, I will describe my timetable, blogging, and final presentation. First week, I invested in coming up with basic ideas in Korea. At that time, I first became interested in’laughter’, which could have many meanings, and saw the works of Chinese artist Yuan Min-jun exhibited in Seoul. The face was exaggerated and distorted, and there were many humorous and satirical pictures of the Chinese government. I was very interested in the joy of humor, and I also investigated Aesop’s fables and Chagall, who painted Aesop’s fables. I enjoyed watching Akira Kurosawa’s’Rashomon’ at the time and had an idea to combine it with the presidency of humor.

In the second and third weeks, while reading a book on a related subject, I fell in love with Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s novel. At this time, I found the story of’The man and the lion’ as a result of researching because the theme of’Rashomon’ might have a great relationship with Aesop’s fables. From the fourth week, I started sketching the 2D character and drawing the muscles of the lion. In addition, we performed character sculpting using a blender. In the fifth and sixth weeks, the characters were textured and animated. From the seventh week, I started making games in Unity in earnest. From then on, I started watching websites and YouTube related to programming, and my interest in games grew. In Weeks 8 and 9, we implemented Blender animations in Unity. In the tenth week, we succeeded in implementing Fumio Hayasaka’s Tryst music into a game engine. Also, by programming, a portal that can be moved from a man’s point of view to a lion’s point of view was created. In the eleventh week of the last week, voice over was assigned to the game, and by using a haptic sensor, we experienced tricking people’s sense of touch with electric signals during vr games. The background of the game was created and the corresponding game atmosphere was also set in the eleventh week.

It was regrettable that I couldn’t write more detailed information on the blog because of putting a lot of weight on the game. In particular, there were large and small trials and errors in sending Blender’s files to the Unity game engine. However, before I even recorded the problem, I tried to solve it, and after solving it, I would forget the existing problems. Nevertheless, it is true that I wrote a blog faithfully to revive my memories as much as possible.
Virtual reality game production was more engineering and technical than other artistic fields. As a result, there were points that an excessively technical term or explanation of the process was unnecessary. To solve this, I have described my thoughts with a technical process. For example, I raised the subjectivity of the article by describing the problem of a specific technology, my thoughts, and solutions.

In the final presentation, I directed myself to play the game wearing a VR headset. It was a new type of presentation, so it was experimental and challenging. However, during the presentation, the technical defect of the VR device and the error that occurred when playing the game and sharing the screen were not expected. As a result, it cannot be said that it was an effective presentation. What I learned through this project is that when presenting media based on’Real Time’ such as games, playing a recorded copy of gameplay in advance is a more effective way to make a presentation. During the presentation, sometimes it was difficult for the listeners to understand as the presentation was made with an excessively technical name.

Presentation

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Previous peer assessment for Pat

Peer assessment for Andy

Peer assessment for Evan

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Peer assessment from Andy