Kunshan University - Taïwan 2019
"Augmented Curiosities" - One week multimedia workshop with design students
This Workshop will mainly focus on:
- Reflection on how to represent strange, metaphysical, invisible (or not yet visible) phenomenons: scientific like electricity? Qi energy? belief like a God?)
- Discover how to use mobile devices, not only as a mean of communication (or a media for watching movies) , but as a creative tool.
- Explore the new writing potentialities offer by AR technology, understand his limit.
- Create a reflective relation between students practices: paintings, traditional printed or sculpture and a digital layer (video/3d...)
Observatory of the unseen
Students works
Creative AR Example in art
Zapworks Studio : a Simple AR / VR experience creative tool by Zapworks studio
Zapworks helps you to design a full AR experience, mixing images, video animation, animated 3d models and sound. Publish your AR using Zappar App on iOS and Android.
See an introduction of Zapworks Studio
First time start:
1 - Create a personal “Hobby Account” in https://zap.works/pricing/personal/ (can use Facebook / google login ) and check the box “I am using zap works for personal use only and not commercial”
2 - Download Zapworks Studio for WINDOWS or APPLE
3 - Install it, start it, Login, Your are OK!
Technical limitations aspect to bear in mind for mobile devices:
- Final project upload should be kept < 15 mo
- Images: .jpg or .png, Maximum 2048*2048 pixels
- Video: .mp4, (H264 codec), Maximum 1280*720 pixels. Can be streaming file for long video (> 10mo) or embedded for short video.
- Sound: .mp4, (AAC codec), 160kbps, 44100hz
- 3d models: .fbx .obj + .mtl file, .pod... max 10 mo / model.
Software on the creative side
- Zapworks Studio Editor:
- Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere CC, After Effects CC...
- Audacity (free software for sound editing)
Free Online Ressources and links
Images:
http://www.pngpix.com/ free transparent png files
https://www.freepik.com/ free vector and .psd files
Video:
https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/ Download and convert many video online from youtube etc
https://video.online-convert.com/ Convert all files online
Sound:
https://freesound.org/ Download many free sounds
3d model:
Zapworks Basic 3d model Light and nice 3d starting models for Zapworks
https://sketchfab.com/ 3d models online ressource (incorporated to Zapworks studio)
https://labs.sketchfab.com/sculptfab/ App to sketch 3d sculpture online
https://clara.io/ App to create animated 3d models online