Category Archives: Filming

Augmented Reality Chess Game – Final Documentation Video

Project:
Battle Chess was created as a final project for Design Studio 3 at Algonquin College/Carleton University. The class was based on finding new ways to interact with our surroundings, and we were required to design and develop a project to reflect our learning. Suggest topics were Augmented Reality, Arduino, xBox Connect, Processing Camera Vision etc. 
Description:
Battle Chess is a chess game that uses Augmented Reality markers to create animated ches pieces. Battle chess was created using Goblin XNA, ALVAR and openCV. There were 6 character models, with interchangable textures depending on the team and mode of the character, and each character has an attack and a death animation. The hardware was hand made using bathroom tiles, and we used a camera attched to a baseball cap to make the game more accessable to everyone. This was a team project: I was responsible for modeling (Maya) the Knight, Wizzard, King and Castle, and all of the attack animations. I also completed our demo video (in under 12 hours) Brittany Pinder was the programmer, and Lindsay Codere was responsible for rigging all the characters. Meagan Leflar was responsible for the remaining modeling, and all of the death animations. For more information, please refer to our presentation slideshow posted below.
Outcomes:
A successful game that was fun to play with new and exciting animated characters. 
Final_Presentation.pptx

Sated

Project:

To make a special effects action movie for IMD’s Design Studio 1.

Description:

Sated was an action movie created for a school project in 2nd year. Special effects I worked on include: gun shot,  wounded chemest on the floor, and the greenscreened helicopter in one of the final shots.

Unforutnatly we ran out of time to edit the sound, adjust some of the transitions and render a high quality version of Sated, however the story is as follows:

You (shot in first person) are a runner for a large drug company who has discovered the existance of a mass virus that is fatal to humans if injested that has recently been accidently invented. Your boss has taken over the operation and  is further developing the drug in order to infect the world and sell the antidote for profit. He sends you on a mission to pick up the first shipment, but instead, you desctroy it and kill the chemest, the only person who knows how to create the virus. This information is shown through flashbacks.

The story takes place after you have been caught by your boss (Hassan Assad). He injects you with the virus in hopes that you will give him information about what has happened to the shipment, and in turn he would provide the antidote. Instead, you run, eventually encountering your boss as he is making his way to his private hellicopter. However it is too late for you, as the virus runs its course and your character dies. However it is not all a sad ending, as your sacrifice saved the world from the release and further development of Sated.

Outcome:

First encounter with Adobe After Effects, managed my first team for a University Project.