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Choregrapher Maguy Marin said, "People now go to the theatre and the arts like consumers. If they don't like something, or it's unfamiliar, they want their money back. But we are not a supermarket."

Week 7 : Thursday

Meeting with Peter and Mark. About the budget, brochure copy and screen shots. Also to clarify the dates that are good for the motion capture demo day in March.

Realise we need a rather large shopping list as far as equipment goes.
Gallery 1
We will need 3pc’s and 2 projectors for a 2 screen installation.
We will need 4 pc’s and 3 projectors for a 3 screen installation.
Numerous cables, drill hole into media-suite, mounts to hang projectors on. Darken the room.
Speakers for 3d sound
Maybe need to paint to get better projection
Gallery 2
Print- outs ( need to cost them)
Spot light
Gallery 3
Plasma or projector, DVD, head phones etc
Material to build false wall etc
Maybe need to paint to get better projection

screenshots of virtual forest

Week 7 : Wednesday

Parcel arrives. 3d glasses and joystick joy to be had. Start to research stereo projectors and CAVE aspect.
Need to follow up 3d Tree software company so we can move along with with making our rapid prototype tree.
Need to do all the cross fades, video transitions, polarising and after effects on the Very Long Movie.

Week 7 : Tuesday

Go to see Rachel Whitereads work at The Tate's Turbine Hall. We really resisted the temptation to climb. Came to the conclusion that all the shows in the Turbine Hall so far look better in Photographs in the Press.
Interesting last night at the Turner Prize opening, we were struck by how calm Gill's paintings made the guests feel. We were interested in the clarity, simplicity and her enquiry into the techniques of painting. The Independent reviewer said they we're boring.
This day trip provided us with good discussions and conversations which led to a much clearer idea of how to present Summerbranch.

Week 7 : Monday

Go to London for the Turner prize opening. Friend Gill has some work showing which actually inspired Summerbranch ( her tree paintings specifically the black ones) maybe she’ll choose them to exhibit in the show at the Tate, we’ll see. Hopefully Toby Zeigler another artist and friend will be there – I need to talk to him about his work which has also inspired Igloo’s Summerbranch project and scope of presentation methods for looking at applications of 2d / 3d/4D work.

Week 6 : Saturday

Work all day editing films and growing/ building endless rows of trees.

Week 6: Friday

Work all day editing films and growing endless rows of trees.

Week 6 : Thursday

Friday Need to talk to Mark about the publicity. Need to estimate shopping list. Computers, plasmas, projectors, lenticulars, wallpaper print outs, rapid prototype tree and so on lighting speakers, ideas for sound and whether we are going to block off certain entrances/exits etc. Do we need to build walls; do we need to paint the gallery a different colour if we are to project? All these things need to be considered. Really want a lovely forest for the publicity.
Start looking at credits etc.

Week 6 : Wednesday

Bruno has a breakthrough with the motion capture by receiving advice from motion builder tutorials and reply emails. Gets a few sequences running well. But as he exclaims it’s like building a house with a pack of cards on a windy day. Pinning jelly to a wall more like.
Spend the afternoon on the terrain again zooming in and out looking for defects.
Amends the first cut of the slow movie. Changing certain aspects like light and depth and matching takes together. Editing and watching full screen.
Really need to go into the woods today, to be sure of a big surprise, but don’t manage it, it pours with rain.

Week 6 : Tuesday

One of the ground texture maps

How it looks in the virtual environment

Ruth spends day looking at first long film draft and adds more sequences. Also sorts out takes for moving film (maybe not to be used in the exhibit).
Ruth spends the afternoon looking through all the source material textbooks and narrows down exhibition ideas.
Bruno spends the day transferring his texture maps from one programme into another (v time consuming). Also we clean mocap data and starts to model it with the Ruth character.
We spend the evening looking at different leaf, twig and branch textures on the moving figure. Lots of emails sent to colleagues with the aim to clean the data quicker.

Week 6 : Monday

We study a Motion Builder tutorial to sort out the glitches with the motion capture data. Cropping and editing the motion, correcting how to lock certain aspects to get the proper cycle. Start and end points of the animation, matching start and end points. Creating poses at the beginning and end so that the motion and rotations direction are adjusted and correct. Zero smooth transitions and layers.
Mapping coordinates-Mapping geometry-Model-Skeleton-Degrees-Stretching-Torso
Arms-Legs-Texture map 3d/2dRelax angles-Spacing of the polygon-sIsolate object- unwrap
Selection modes-Point to point- seam-Trace-Edges-Simulate-Expand pelt /align/ edit
Also contact is made with CAVE company Model environmental camouflage – internal landscape

Stay late – discuss different rooms
Ideas for presentation of installation

Week 5 : Friday

Bruno texture mapping the Summerbranch Virtual Environment. Concentrating on ground textures with grass, leaf and twig maps – he has created a variety of 9 different choices depending on the types of trees growing in that area.
Mark loans us the DVCam to preview the work and a TV monitor to see how the film looks. The next stage will be to look at the final film and virtual environment projected.
Ruth surfs web looking at Pipolotti Rist’s work, how she presents.
Can we make a book for the Artsway Gallery Shop? Do we have enough left in the budget?

Week 5 : Thursday

Helen visits the studio to see where we are at. Our ideas so far and what we have achieved. We talk about how we want to manipulate the space and in what rooms (gallery 1, 2& 3) we imagine our works to be presented.
Film – gallery 3
Wallpaper – gallery 2
Lenticulars – gallery 2
Rapid Prototype Tree – gallery 2 or entrance foyer
Computer Generated Virtual Environment – Gallery 1
Helen thinks we need some time before March to come down and check the space and have a play. This could happen when Alison Turnbull’s exhibition closes and before the Open exhibit. Before we go to Australia, so sometime in November. This needs to be discussed with Mark & ArtSway. (We may have to stay with Helen as accommodation and travel budget is looking tight)

Ruth watches all rushes through twice. A decision is made to show the film in Gallery 3 as an opening into another world. The musician is contacted and the run time of the film is approx I hour 6minutes. He will compose a score which he will play live along to the visuals, which will then be recorded and then played back on a loop. We choose electric guitar (but sounding acoustic for the film). Need to start doing the transition cross fades in Final Cut pro. Look at polarising filter sections.
Bruno makes more virtual trees.

Week 5 : Wednesday

Bruno texture mapping all day making virtual woodland.
Ruth chooses all the still 1-minute clips from August and makes a rough edit, with all the clips side by side. Then she sorts out clips for the moving film. Then chooses a sequence where Jo improvises in the Ghillie suit for the first time.

Week 5 : Tuesday

9:15 A diary meeting with Helen and Mark to arrange a time to meet Portland.
Discuss writing a small paragraph for the ArtSway 6 month brochure text to go to Peter & Adelina high profile exhibition text to Mark & Helen for the actual blurb for work later on.
Map and make diagram of the space and how we are going to exhibit for this Thursday, catch up meeting with Mark & Helen.
Copy for the marketing deadline is December. Logistics of the event.
TA – outreach different audiences
Ramblers????
All mentioned on the fly
Follow up Tim and the Rapid Prototyping.
Projector 3d 3d glasses In focus depth cue 3d video projector $4K need to wear glasses – flicker proof

Week 5 : Monday

10-1pm Ruth does admin catch up with Summerbranch project. Including writing to Animazoo about the demo day happening in March/April when the exhibition is on rather than this month. Write to Helen and Mark arrange a meeting as to the next 3 weeks and copy deadlines etc for the exhibition. Write to rapid prototyping company about the tree.
Bruno worked on Studio max to familiarise himself again with the package and updates the igloo website.
Need to talk with Helen & Mark some conceptual text.
Mark popped in and suggested the demo day ( mocap) would work nicely as our educational day.