Emerging Tech – VR Art

I will document everything best I can,

For this section.

I don’t have all of the artwork as I got sent a zip that didn’t have all of my stuff and had other people’s, I did ask about it but never got a reply.

So I have provide recreations of the art and process best I can to help illustrate my thoughts.

I decided to make a frog in each one as it would create easy comparison. I chose a frog as I love drawing little creatures, ‘lil guys’ if you will.

They are also good as you can draw or model them as a sphere with a few features.

I didnt want to do anything to complicated as I predicted several issues;
I can get motion sick quite easily, so VR is a struggle for me.
I am very clumsy, the VR headset makes my head more heavy and effectively puts a big blindfold on me.

Open brush

Openbrush was the first programme, the zip foulder sent to me by the teacher didn’t have my Openbrush frog but he looked approximately like this. I did ask the teacher about the missing images, but never got a reply. This turn of events was disappointing, hence the recreation above.

I really enjoyed doing the brush strokes in vr, It felt like traditional art; like painting and modelling with clay but with non of the mess. I enjoyed making this frog.

The only issues I had was that I am not used to vr, so to move around I didn’t realise you could point, click and then move. So I just walked around the room, which lead to me bumping into a lot of furniture, or to get onto details I just stood on my toes or crouched so I had muscle pains by the end.

Gravity Sketch

This is a frog diorama I made in Gravity sketch.

Gravity sketch was honestly fine. It felt like an inbetween of the flowly scuptral aspects of Openbrush and something more technical. I did struggle a bit, mostly because I struggled with the controlls a lot.

I started putyting random shapes down because I didn’t know what I was doing at any point.

But eventually it became more of a frog shape when I leant some more.

At this point I had learn to not keep walking around and bumping into furniture but I was bad at navigating around models, so some of it was clumsy and I got around by leaning side to side or reaching for forward.

I wish I started with the concept of a diorama but..

I decided my frog looked too lonely on his own and added the pond and background afterwards which was just difficult and annoying.

I wish I added the pond and rock first and then made the frog on top instead of making them below the frog.

ShapesXR

I did record myself struggling to make this frog, but I did not get the recording due to the aformentioned zip

I quickly learned there was a high learning curve for the tools that were available. I found that I struggled the most with this app as I am not the most technically minded and this was the most technically demanding VR application.

In real life I sometimes struggle with depth perception and coordination especially which was only heightened in VR. So while the mirror tool was eventually helpful, getting to that point where I was proficient with it was very frustrating. As I was learning how to use the mirror tool the body ended up being shaped like butt cheeks instead of a circle which is not what what I intended.

I am ok with the final result but it’s not my favourite; due to the weird blobs