Kunshan University - Taïwan 2023

24 hours multimedia workshop with 10-15 design students from the Visual Communication and Design department.

This Workshop focus on creative artworks using augmented reality tools. It allows students to:

Explore the new writing potentialities offer by AR technology, understand its technical limit.
Create a thoughtful relationship between a design practice (painting, traditional print or sculpture/object...) and a digital layer (video/3d/sound...).
Design a distribuable AR experience visible by any average smartphone on the market.
Learn the ZapWorks Studio editor tool for designing any kind of AR projects.

Assignment:

Create an AR experience for a communication work (ex: an augmented name card, augmented portfolio book, augmented poster, augmented object or pure art experimentation).
The experience needs to be triggered by a Zapcode through an App and by a QRCode without an app.
The experience should be easily readable with an average mobile phone (Please care about mobile's hardware display limitation and the mobile internet speed).

Program:

day

02/05

04/05

09/05

11/05

Class exercices

- Introduction

- Display contents

- Tracking types

- Organisation in space

- Hierarchy and Group

- Actions

- States and animation

- Masking

- Movie and sound

- Scripting

- Publishing

day	16/05	18/05	20/05	23/05
Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project

Class exercises :

- Exercises 02/05 - Introduction to tracking (sources files)

Tutorial for review:

1 / Software Interface, Navigating the UI

2 / Create a Target Image for Image Tracking

3 / Create a Ground placement for World Tracking

4 / Use of 3d Models

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- Exercises - 04/05 - Organisation in space (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercise] Book Silhouette.zip

Tutorial for review:

1 / Screen Coordinate system for UI

2 / Action Button for simple interactivity

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- Exercises - 09/05 - Controller and states for animation (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercice] 3d book portfolio.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Controllers and states for animation

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- Exercises - 11/05 - Mask and interactivity (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercice] hole in the box mask.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Masking objects to create a "hole effect"

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- Exercises - 16/05 - Timeline animation and publishing (sources files)

Example "bouncing ball" and timeline: Timeline animation.zip

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercise] Phoenix flying bird with mask.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Previewing and publishing

2/ Masking objects to create a "hole effect"

1/ Adding a script

2/ Control states with a script

"Subsymbols" : teacher's useful objects, you can add in your projects:

- Media player : can read video as .mp4, use alpha channel, play sound control by "states".

- Particles: create a falling particle

- Motion Player: a frame by frame animation player ("stopmotion") using .png or .jpeg files

- ...

Examples to try with smartphone

AR Example made with ZapWorks for branding:

Creative AR video Example in art

Onlybots - artificial intelligent pets in AR (tamagotchi)

Check short stories

French creative studio

Zapworks Studio : The AR / VR creative tool by Zapworks

Zapworks Studio 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 or in the web.

To start the workshop:

1 - Create a personal “Hobby Account” clicking here, verify your email.