This is a study in the play of light and shadow on a revolving form. Through backlighting the object, the shot becomes scaleless, and its revolutions push and pull the amount of light.

Group Members: John Choi, Toya Rosuello, Justin Abel, Sam Day

Storyboard Draft #1

Background: Vaporwave

Vaporwave is a musical subgenre that originated in the early 2010’s and spread throughout youth culture over the next half decade. It is characterized by the remixing of nostalgia and consumer culture into something that’s artistically surreal. Vaporwave aesthetics, or “ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ” usually incorporates artifacts of obsolete computer imagery, including glitch art, VHS tapes, crude digital renderings, and cyberpunk.

What We’re Doing

Vaporwave visual culture is entrenched in digital space only. What we aim to do is to bring a visual that is usually rendered digitally into physical space, creating something digital looking through analog means. Namely we want to create a series of wireframe images and composition them together into a “room” with a vector graphics kind of appearance to it. Some of the wireframes will be simple geometric objects, like a cube or a cone, while a center piece will be a wireframe of Plato’s head. These objects will be rotated like a 3D model. What we did here was the “room” part of the experiment, where we put the viewer in a pseudo vector art like space.

How We’re Doing It

We are currently experimenting with how we want to create the “analog wireframes”. One method we try experimenting with in the video is the use of fishing wires, overexposure, and clever lighting. Our second technique that we want to experiment with involves painting a statue black then using glow paint to give it a wireframe. The rotation will then be used with a stepper motor.

Storyboards

Additional Images

Created By:

Maddie Duque

Andrew Chang

Sydney Ayers

Nitesh Sridhar

Using the stepper motor turntable we created a balanced apparatus that reflected itself as it spun. The lights and colors are all experimentations that we plan on building upon for the final project. Through this test we were able to judge how an object in movement can seem animate through direct lighting and focused angles.

By Haobo Wang, Katherine Wang, Paul Calhoun, Rebecca Marcus, and Xavier Apostol,

The group used two stepper motors with an LED attached to it in order to create a spirograph. Long-exposure shots were then taken in sequence with a PC remote control and storage in order to stitch it together into a stop-motion animation.

Created by: Jenn Kwang, Melody Ting, Ricardo Tucker, Sam Stark

Setup of long exposure shots and PC control with studio lights on.

Stop Motion Project for 60-428

by Haobo Wang, Nitesh Sridhar, Rebecca Marcus, and Sam Day

Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/203911119

By using a line of repeated joints and a servo to pull at a single connection, we were able to create an “inching” movement, serving as foundation for the animal.  Water-like effects were created by allowing light to pass through a clear water bottle (imitating how sunlight is refracted upon a sea floor) in tandem with the reflective nature of the fabrics.

Created by:

Justin Abel
John Choi
Jen Kwang
Toya Rosuello

Pre-established laws aren’t always followed.

created by:  Andrew Chang, Melody Ting, Ricardo Tucker, Sam Stark, and Sydney Ayers

Process Images:

DXF file for laser cut parts

Custom laser cut servo mount

Behind the scenes on the set.

A futuristic vision of the day when robotic musicians try to emulate our culture. Lacking a surviving audio recording, they can only produce the appearance of a violin.

Madeline Duque, Paul Calhoun, Katherine Wang, Xavier Apostol

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This project centers around an apparatus constructed out of black elastic rope. The pulling and pushing of this crafted object caused it to flux organically, which then inspired the programming of the servos in MAX. There was an interest in filming the object to a level of abstraction and ambiguity while its motions attempted to clearly resemble a breathing muscle.

Group Members: Melody Ting, Sam Day, Sydney Ayers, Steffen Holm, Ricardo Tucker

Triangle plus light plus nuts plus screws plus shadow plus camera plus string plus straw plus servos plus control board plus computer plus time plus electricity plus bearings equals Triangular Bearings!

We used a laser cutter to create the triangular plate out of acrylic. fastened to three servomotors supported by straw structure and string. The 4mm ball bearings simulate a stream of magnified particles in a wave of wondrous motion in a harmonious union of sines and cosines.

Credits: Maddie Duque, Joseph Mertz, Nitesh Sridhar, John Choi