Week 8-The Milestone

Week 8

The whole team met in the mo-cap lab on Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm to combine every chunk of our project together. We had the first visual stage created, and the audio was ready, but it needed a more obvious transition. We also worked on taping the conductive tape on the arms, putting in the wires, and getting them tested. I worked closely with the costume. We were using the conductive thread at the beginning. It was sowed in, but it got confused as whether my skin touched the thread from the inside or people touched it from the outside of the suit. So we decided to use the wire instead of the thread. 

After the arms were done, I wore the suit and tested the connection with Vivian with everything. The Kinect tracking worked better on the digital puppet compared to the initial tracking we had in Unity, which is good news. As a puppet that is being tracked, my feeling is that I need to tie up my hair and show my ears, otherwise the Kinect tracking will get confused on the left and right side, forward or backward, or even get lost on the tracking. 

We also discussed how our performance will be held. Originally, we wanted the participants to lead the whole process, but suddenly we realized that if the participants didn’t interact with the puppet enough, they might miss some of the effects and our performance would be meaningless for them, or the whole process would last very long, so we still need to brainstorm on the design of the performance.


Next Week

I will continuously work with Kaenan on the costume. 

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