Perforce Quickstart

 

 

 

Link To Doc

 

I've put together a quick start document for Perforce the goal is mostly serve as an intro to Perforce and cover the basics. I'm working on creating a more advanced breakdown for P4 Admin tools as well as user creation and permissions.
 

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or feedback.

GCDS Spring / Summer 2021

 

 

Work Breakdown

-Pre production

-Cloth and simulation pipeline

-VFX supervision

-Outsource management

-Engine integration 

-Environment Art

Links

Vogue

GCDS 

Last Whispers

Last Whispers a piece on dying languages originated as an essay on language extinction and over time evolved into an immersive oratorio. I had the opportunity to translate the piece into its next phase, and help create a episodic volumetric experience. We initially started working on the project as test to see what the VR version of the oratorio would feel like. Early on as I started the rough prototype I became immediately fascinated by the work that Lena and her team had done for the oratorio, and the more I digged into how the piece was assembled I could see the passion that had gone into bringing the piece to its current form.

Work Breakdown

 

Here is a breakdown video of some of the work I did on Last Whispers

The use of global collection parameters in UE4 was a huge time saver because it allowed me to easily author visual subtleties through sequencer, this made it easier for me to iterate and scrub through multiple changes without having to run through the entire experience or build a complex setup to skip through the experience. This not only helped maintain visual consistency among the assets in scene but it also helped determine and helped me better frame focal points for to user to see.

Last Whispers audience at the Kennedy Center September 2019

Press

Sundance

SXSW 

Kennedy Center
LACMA

E3 UE4 TeamSpeak VoIP

UE4 TeamSpeak VoIP

I got the opportunity to assist the Redpill VR team with their TeamSpeak integration demo for E3 in 2019.

A key component of the social VR experience was the ability to talk to one another. For this demo I was in charge of setting up the voice over IP for the multiple player types. This required varying audio permissions as well as input controls. 

VRE

The VR Escort (VRE) played one of the vital roles in the experience. This guide is responsible for introducing the new users to the experience via the tutorial scene.

The VRE has the ability to broadcast their voice to the DJ and all other users. This enables the DJ to hear their starting cue, and the new users are then prompted to listen to the navigation/interaction instructions.

VRE VoIP Properties

- Broadcast to all

- Push to talk

- Mute other users

DJ

The DJ, like the VRE, has the ability to broadcast to all users through their own audio channel.

DJ VoIP Properties

- Broadcast to all

- Push to talk

- Separate audio channel

 

 

 

Attendees

The people visiting the experience were able to communicate with each other via the push to talk function (4+ users shared this audio channel).

Attendee VoIP Properties

- Broadcast to other attendees

- Broadcast to VRE

- Push to talk

Origin Stories Photogrammetry

The following are images from a 5G project we worked on in collaboration with AT&T.
I went on location to New Orleans and San Francisco to capture the environments bellow. More updates coming soon.

Photogrammetry capture time lapse of The Blue Nile

Reality Capture reconstruction.
The floating rectangles represent the location the pictures were taken.

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

UE4 Screenshot with all Trombone Shorty holograms captured at Metastage

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

Reality Capture Render prior cleanup

Greenland Melting

The experience had it's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. In this experience you travel with two NASA scientist that are part of the Ocean Melting Greenland  (OMG) team. As you progress through the experience the scientist explain their process of studying the glaciers in Greenland, and what is causing them to melt at alarming rates.

 

You can experience the room scale version on steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1012510/Greenland_Melting/

 

No Photogrammetry No Problem 

 

While visiting Greenland the crew had a limited amount of time to capture the locations. While there the crew captured multiple 360 video shots, they unfortunately were unable to photograph some of the the main locations we wanted to reconstruct via photogrammetry.

This presented a problem for the final scene of the experience, we had volumetric videos of the NASA scientist explaining their study results but all we had was a flat 360 video for the environment.

8i volumetric capture of Eric Rignot

I sat with Kevin our 360 video lead and we ended up going through all the 360 shots that we had in search of something we could potentially use as reference or a foundation for that final scene. One of the most promising shots was the shot above.

I asked if I could get a rotated output of the shot with the floor being the central point of the video in order to reduce the amount of equirectangular warp on the ground plane.

Once in Zbrush I did a rough displacement pass and then corrected some of the areas that needed attention. We modeled out the capsule seen in the 360 shot. We then used the 360 video sky footage as our skydome.

SXSW Premiere

The Emblematic team working the SXSW booth

One of the festival visitors shared the wait time for their spot 4hrs before the end of the festival.

Out of Exile

In 2014 Daniel Ashley Pierce was confronted by his family about his sexual orientation. The interrogation led to Daniel being disowned and forcefully evicted from the home. Moreover, the scene then turns violent when his stepmother assaults him. Because this behavior was a common pattern with his family, Daniel was advised to record any future encounters for his safety. In collaboration with the True Colors Fund we were able to digitally recreate this moment in hopes of shedding light on the hardships that some people may experience while coming out.

Work Breakdown

Using Daniel's video recording from his phone and various pictures of the living room we were able to recreate the encounter digitally in order to place the user inside the story. I was in charge of creating most of the environment with the exception of the shelves.

 

For this project I also helped oversee the additional animation work needed on mocap, as well as integration and addressing any issues in engine (Unity).

 

White House

2016 White House Policy Briefing on Ending Youth Homelessness. 

Awards

Official selection of Sundance 2017/Award of Distinction Ars Electronica 2017

Unity Vision Summity2017  Social Impact award

Press

Sundance
Siggraph

MIT Docubase

White House Policy Briefing

After Solitary

I had the great opportunity of working on After Solitary one of the three collaboration projects between PBS Frontline and Emblematic Group. The experience had it's world premiere at the SXSW2017. My role as a Technical Director was to integrate and optimize the photogrammetry, volumetric video (8i), lighting / dimming effects, and any additional smoke and mirrors need to maximize performance while maintaining visual fidelity.

 After Solitary won the Room-Scale VR award at SXSW 2017 and the Imperial Crown award at the World VR Forum 2017

Room Scale VR award at SXSW 2017

After Solitary won the Room-Scale award at SXSW 2017. The award doubles up as an awesome belt buckle!

Me running demos at booth.

Emblematic Group booth setup ready to officially launch both After Solitary and We Who Remain at SXSW 2017.

Experience After Solitary

 

You can experience the room scale version on steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/650460/After_Solitary/ 

360 Render

Keep in mind this is a walk around experience (room scale) and the 360 version does not do it justice. If you'd like to experience the walk around build (Rift/Vive) you can download it on steam.

 

 

Press

Arstechnica

Frontline

WorldVRForum

Liong Guardian Photogrammetry from Hong Kong

Hi it's been a while but posting a quick update from a recent work trip. More details on the model can be found here.

3D Model

Lion Guardian by Jonathan Yomayuza on Sketchfab

American Museum of Women's History

The American Museum of Women’s History Congressional Commission presented a report to Congress on November 16, 2016. As part of that report we created a volumetric experience and presented it at the White House.

360 Render

Bellow is the 360 version of the Mary Katherine Goddard experience.

Press
WUSA9
Vice

Links

Congressional Commission

Twitter

Berlin Wall Photogrammetry

Captured part of the Berlin Wall after visiting the Sundance office on Wilshire

The following is a video render out of Reality Capture, the images seen on the top left corner are the pictures the software used to reconstruct the wall virtually.

Reality Capture Render