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Here also is a short video record of my individual project. If you pay attention, you'd notice that on entering the room, you begin to hear the sound of people walking around the room and sort of having conversations. I downloaded an exhibition audio and added to the video to make it feel as realistic as possible as i couldn't get as much people into the room as i wanted.

Keep watching this space😉

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And this is a short video of the project. Due to an issue I can't explain, the skybox disappeared again after it was added to the sky background. Still have some figuring out to do.

But anyway, enjoy!

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These are snapshots from my group project, all built on unreal engine software. Although there were many challenges all through the process, we managed to pull this through in the end.

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After two attempts i finally got it right. After the last trial with the issue of disappearing into the sky, i realised i probably needed to work with a darker picture. And i also tried a different approach in the node links connection which from the picture above appears easier than the first approach. I will be uploading the complete project as soon as possible so watch out.

Here's the link to the video that helped me build this skybox

https://youtu.be/JPKFCv9VprM?si=FwhpAHMaK6QIdEJL

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This was the last process of my individual project on this virtual painting. Due to the memory usage issue i encountered in the process of the work, i couldn't achieve what i envisioned. I planned having very detailed full figures, and as many artworks as possible all in the room. The works i have seen on the youtube channel of AnnaDreambrush are quite huge and it seems there's something I am missing. I will continue to message her until i get her attention. Asides school work, this is something i will like to explore.

My next post about this individual project would be the video of the completed work, watch out.

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This was the second attempt on building the skybox. At this point the skybox was functional enough but the issue was due to the nature of the game scene and environment, when this one was applied to the videogame it disappeared. The videogame was built in a night time scene which made the entire surroundings of the buildings to appear very dark. When the skybox was put into the game it disappeared because it had a lighter texture and the only way for it to show was to turn the videogame to a daylight scene.

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This was the issue i spoke about in my last post about not having movement in the skybox i built.

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Quick update on the group project. As this was a collective effort sort of work, roles were shared in order to make sure everyone in the group contributed in one way or another. I was given the role of building a skybox for the videogame which was an both tough and educative. In the course of building it, i faced some issues of functionality. The image is the process where node links are connected to one effect or another which basically serves as an instruction given to the unreal engine telling it how i wanted the skybox to work. This was the first attempt which failed as it did not allow for movement in the game environment. Unreal had crashed the work a couple of times so for everything we did we had to test it first before eventually putting into the main work which was why i did all the attempts on a new project before the last successful attempt was then put in the videogame before submission.

Stay tuned in for the finished piece of these projects.

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Due to the memory usage issue, i had to try another painting app. Initially i was using Meta brush but then i had to try Open brush app which has the same features as the meta brush but then i was disappointed when i realised the app was exactly same with the meta brush just a different name.

The famous 'Annadreambrush' that i stumbled upon on youtube usually painted on large scales and she it seemed like she had unlimited storage or something. I tried reaching out to her on her comment section and even on Instagram for possible advise or solutions but she did not reply because she is this big deal obviously and i am not just yet😁. Anyhow, i went ahead to assume she probably used a higher meta quest headset. I've been working with the oculus meta quest 2 so i explained this to my tutor in school and i was given access to the meta quest 3. I downloaded the apps on there immediately just to be sure and it was the same case on the meta quest 2. The annoying thing was i had found an edge on how to work my way on this art medium and i had this huge idea of wat to do but sadly it wasn't gonna happen atleast until i figure out what particular app she uses and meta quest.🤔

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Just when i began to enjoy the work process, i encountered an issue. the application memory usage was actually not big enough to contain what i had in mind. As a professional in oil painting practice i like to give details to my work but i couldn't achieve that here. We were required to use this project to suggest a critical issue in digital and immersive arts. Initially i was working on the issue of authenticity and reproduction which has been caused by digital arts process but 'experience they say is the best teacher. Through this artwork i have also realised that memory usage and storage is one very critical issue in digital and immersive arts as it obviously limits an artist from achieving their desired artwork. My group members and i also faced same memory issue while working on the group project which made us divide the game into levels and we had to put each one on a different computer in school as unreal usually crashes once it gets congested.

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Due to the amount of difficulty i faced creating the work, at some point i had to search for artists who have done something like this on Youtube. I stumbled on a very talented artist #Annadreambrush, her works are really amazing and inspired me. I thought to myself if another artist can make those amazing works, i could too with time obviously. I studied her work process and it helped me improve on the second figure.

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This is a sketch of the projected view of the video game we are working on. Initially we wanted to physically build something, reference from the same film we are building the videogame from and sort of like make a film out of it but then as we progressed we tried to build it on unreal engine instead.

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I started laying in colours. Honestly for a first timer, whoever decides to explore the virtual art making would probably struggle from the start because its not as stable as the physical oil painting process. I was only able to pull some of the things you'd see on this particular project off because originally i have had my degree in oil painting so i just tried to relate the experience to the virtual. The colour scheme was not a good as a skin tone should be because there are some limitations to what could be achieved on the virtual painting. Some unique effects that makes a painting could not easily be achieved here. There is no mixing of colour or any of that, you literally have to make do with what have been provided for you on the palette.

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This is progress on my individual project. The purpose of this particular video was to explain my work process but little did i know my voice wasn't heard on the headset, i don't know why that didn't work anyways but i'll look into it later. So here i tried to relate my oil painting work process to the virtual painting process. This was not easy at all as i had difficulty in the human figure measurements. Usually when making an oil painting i would move backwards from the canvas, this process helped me see the object or figures as in this context, from a distance which helps me determine the accuracy of the measurement i had done which was not easy here as it was not just a virtual work but my first time using the virtual headset.

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This is me and the team during a meeting where we had a discussion about a group project we are working on. For this project we are producing a video game on unreal engine from a film for school assessment.

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Process

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This is what I'm trying to create, the inside of the exhibition room would contain two people, male and female gazing at the artworks in the room