03/08 WK 08 UT/ WK 07 NYU

IN CLASS

ANNOUNCE

1. These are the students signed up for 😂 Laugh Out Loud in Washington Square Park. The event is now Saturday, April 16th from 2-3pm ET!

   • We will do a testing event in the Sansar app with Stream Yard on Saturday April 9th at 2pm ET

   • All of the video works will be put on one reel and then I will upload it to Vimeo

     • Sansar may not be able to support custom avatars, so video works are preferable if you are using a custom avatar. You can also use one of Sansar's default avatars if you'd like to do a live performance

     • The students who have signed up are below, but if we're doing a big video reel, if more students would like to participate now, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y_adnlHyC2eDLk8NYTuMQtljX7YiJocDLNfEI85CzI4/edit?usp=sharing

   • Professor Snow Yunxue Fu will be attending class on March 29 to discuss any last details

   • Students who are participating, we will need a brief project description (with supporting visuals) BEFORE Tuesday, March 29th Sarah Tahir Aman Chopra Fallon Jones Nat Briceno Ajinkya Hukerikar Max Truty Leigh Fisher Ainur Kalimoldayeva Coco Ma

2. Beginning to think about End Term Projects *These will due TUESDAY, APRIL 19th and you will present the works in class on APR 19th and APR 26th. The works will be screened at UT Austin and at NYU.

• HUMOR HAS MADE ME A BETTER STORYTELLER (can be collaborative or independent)

  1. This can be a synthetic media work produced in Unity or Unreal, a social media performance, a short video using yourself or another person, an AR filter on instagram, a comic strip, an animation, documentation of a TikTok or Twitch stream, or an interactive work.

  2. The project should address one of the forms of comedy, absurdity or humor we have covered in class.

  3. Elements from previous class assignments can be incorporated.

  4. This can be a collaborative project.

  5. There will need to be video recording or documentation of the work for a screening at the end of the semester at UT Austin and at NYU that is under 5 minutes.

NYU STUDENT MIDTERM PRESENTATIONS of 🤺 Misdirection

PRESENTATION ORDER (if some of you are presenting a collaborative project, please just go when the first person's name in your team appears in the list below

Huiru Aman Blessing Leigh Matthew Coco Qingyu Sri Ainur Sarah Ajinkya Maria Ana

DEMOS Mixamo to Unity Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrLS3jD8NGE

Mixamo to Unreal Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8JAngfgutio

TUTORIALS

RETARGETING BLEND SHAPES FaceCap to Mixamo blendshapes retargeting in Unity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MjnhC8P4M0 ReveRig w/ FaceCap: How to Retarget Facial Mocap Animation (Blender) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ddMJywtec UNREAL How to Import a Character with Animations to Unreal Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrLS3jD8NGE

iPhone Facial Capture with Unreal Engine | Unreal Fest Online 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3c4WjSFXJg Adapting characters to use real-time facial capture | Unreal Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlACuA0Z73s

MetaHuman https://metahuman.unrealengine.com/ Using the MetaHuman Facial Rig in UE | Unreal Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpH3o44_58 SANSAR Download Sansar https://www.sansar.com/download (PC's only) Visit https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/virtualwsg-9185/virtual-washington-square-park

NO ASSIGNMENT

ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK!