GMU:VR Experience Designers

Lecturer: Jörg Brinkmann
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Date: Thursdays, 15:15 – 18:30
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001)
First meeting: Thursday, 18.10.2018, 15:15

DESCRIPTION
How would you create an experience in VR? What works in VR and what doesn’t? When working with VR glasses you are confronted with an evolving medium that hasn’t found its language, yet

In this class you will be introduced to the boundaries and experiment with the possibilities of VR. You will be working with Unity 3D, the HTC Vive VR Glasses, 360 Video and spatial audio

This course is for MFA students only who already have experience in working with 3D Software

Planned is an excursion to Panorama Bad Frankenhausen as well as a participation at a Symposium at the HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin in cooperation with the chair of Experimental Radio

CRITERIA FOR PASSING

In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

STUDENTWORKS

• Jörg Brinkmann

18.10.2018

Introduction

25.10.2018

Presentation of artistic examples and methods

01.11.2018

Unity 3D introduction

08.11.2018

Unity 3D + HTC Vive introduction

15.11.2018

Exhibition Berlin

22.11.2018

Introduction to Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)
by Jonas Jülch

Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)
11:00 - 11:30 (Eduardo Moreno)
11:30 - 12:00 (Sarah Pacheco Alvim (appropriation))
–
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here)
13:30 - 14:00 (Paul Polze)
14:00 - 14:30 (Adam Streicher)
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

29.11.2018

Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)
by Luis Henrique Mesquita

Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here)
11:30 - 12:00 (Chloe JY Yoon)
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13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here)
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here)
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here)
14:30 - 15:00 Amy Jean Barnett

06.12.2018

Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 204)
by Luis Henrique Mesquita

Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here)
11:30 - 12:00 (Luís Mesquita)
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13:00 - 13:30 Lucia Schmidt
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here)
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here)
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

13.12.2018

Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 204)
by Luis Henrique Mesquita

no Consultations on this day

20.12.2018

Presentation of your concepts

10.01.2019

Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

17.01.2019

Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

24.01.2019

Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

31.01.2019

Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

VR TOOLBOX

Software
Unity 3D - cross-platform game engine
https://unity3d.com/de

Blender - open-source 3D modeller with many features
https://www.blender.org

Meshmixer - "Swiss Army Knife" for 3D meshes
http://www.meshmixer.com

MeshLab - open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes
http://www.meshlab.net

MakeHuman - open source tool for making 3D characters
http://www.makehuman.org

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program
https://obsproject.com

Online Tools
Mixamo - Rapidly create, rig and animate unique characters
https://www.mixamo.com

NormalMap-Online - create a normalmaps directly inside your browser
http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

3D Models (for download and use)
http://www.myminifactory.com
http://www.sketchfab.com
http://www.thingiverse.com
http://www.turbosquid.com
http://www.lincoln3dscans.co.uk

Unity 3D Tutorials
Tutorials from the Unity 3D page
https://unity3d.com/de/learn/tutorials

Blender Tutorials
Blender Beginner Tutorial Series by Blender Guru
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgHs8uzT3yqe4iHGfkCmMJ0P

Interface and Navigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2mtoDnSzM

Modeling - Creating a kitchen (ignore part 2)
https://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/create-a-realistic-kitchen-part-1-of-2

Modeling - Modeling a simple character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIoWrOlIRw

Materials - Basic properties of materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHxuoYyJJk

Texturing - Applying textures to an object
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRUUeFteQg

Rigging - Rigging a character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGvalWG8HBU&t=

Animation - 12 Principles of Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4

Animation - Animating a bouncing ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUocrcIQfp4