GMU:Critical VR Lab I/Yasemin Yagci

First Prototype

Concept

I want to visualise a short absurd story call Blue notebook no. 2 by Daniil Kharms. In this story, Kharms describes a man with the physical characteristics of the man, but in doing so, his memories of the man are fading away and eventually, the man disappears. The story begins as follows;

Once there was a redheaded man without eyes and ears. He had no hair either so that he was a redhead was just something they said. He could not speak, for he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn't even have arms or legs. He had no stomach either, and he had no back, and he had no spine and no intestines of any kind. He didn't have anything at all. So it is hard to understand whom we are really talking about. So it is probably best not to talk about him any more. -Daniil Kharms

I dealt with this story through existentialism and the constant questioning of one's existence. How does a person have nothing to say or ask?

Visualisation

In my first test animation tracks were pretty tricky, sometimes they were crashing, sometimes they were not. I didn’t want to add gravity to NPC characters so they were just flying around. The reason is that I want them hanging in random space and time then viewers. Shader Graphs was hard to control for me. I want to dissolve graph works after animations are finish but I am working on that.

here is the first prototype test video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMw7QQIuVw0&feature=youtu.be