Interactive Project – COVID-19 Games

The idea of my project is to represent the games I mainly played during the pandemic. Because the pandemic caused a lot of restrictions on outside interaction, I resorted to playing online games to cope with the loneliness and stress. I tried to have the layout represent a gaming console with some sort of gaming…

Interactive Touch Project: Pentatonic Piano

For my Interactive Touch Project I created a mini pentatonic piano with the Makey Makey. I was inspired to create my project after witnessing all the improvisation COVID-19 has spurred in society. No one really knows what will happen next, but thanks to coronavirus, society is evolving, developing new and innovative solutions, and improvising constantly….

VIBE wid IT | Interactive Touch Project by Carlos Velasquez

The idea of my project was to represent exactly what the last couple of months have been for me. SInce COVID caused the entire world to slow down and stay home, I spent SO much time listening to music in my bedroom. I therefore decided to represent the different “vibes” that music brought to me….

Interactive Touch Project – MagicPants™ Commersial

The magical dance that is the “Wallet, phone, keys” dance, is something we all subconsciously do before we leave the house. We never want to endeavor on the great unknowns that is the outside world unprepared. However, in these uncertain and trying times, it’s vital that we stay prepared more than ever. And that means…

Interactive Touch Project – World Volume

For this project, I wanted to demonstrate how the world has gotten so much “quieter” for me since the start of the pandemic. I decided to use concerts as a way to show this, with three animations. The first animation is of a real in-person concert(loudest volume), the second animation is of a person hanging…

Interactive Touch Project – Mindset Timeline (Update)

For my Interactive Touch Project, I chose to make scenes representing my mindset before and during the pandemic. Specifically, I chose a pre-Covid mindset of getting to hang out with friends, play board games, and basically be normal. Then, I made a scene from the start of the pandemic: before we knew how it spread…

Interactive Project – Link and Everyday Objects

DISCLAIMERBefore we start, I wish to give credit to Christoph Schoch for his amazing free Breath of the Wild Link and Zelda Rigs in these animations! https://twitter.com/artstoff?lang=enAll animations and environmental models are created by me. The Zelda characters are simply just good rigs to represent human movement and emotions. In no way was I representing…

Interactive Touch Project – The Domino Effect

My concept focuses around the abrupt closure of society when the pandemic started in March. It ties in to the Domino Effect because when one person was infect with the virus, it caused other people to get infected. This also caused businesses to close down quickly and people to stay home behind closed doors. So…

Interactive Touch Project – Communication (Doors)

My Interactive Touch Project attempts to depict the switch from in-person to online communication. The scene starts out with four people outside and four houses with their doors open. As you close the doors on the physical model, the door in the display closes and the person goes inside and starts communicating online. Unfortunately, I…

Interactive Touch Project – Disruption

For my interactive touch piece, I wanted to focus on how the coronavirus disrupted our normal lives. I compared our lives to a calm beach scene with waves and a few clouds. When the board is interacted with, different disruptions appear and break the calm scene up. For my updated version, I polished the physical…

Interactive Touch – Routine

So for my interactive touch project, I created a piece out of cardboard that caputred a slice of what my routine became during the summer months of lockdown. The model itself is an abstract representation of my room, where I spent a lot of time working, relaxing, and being bored. For the interactive component, I…

Interactive Touch Project

In this video I made three animations and used electrical tape to connect the current. My idea is still the same from the previous drafts. I have a TV, computer, and a cell phone. When pressing on one, it shows some of the news I would see during quarantine. I have pets who push the…

Interactive Touch Project

For my project, I wanted to reflect upon society’s mood over time as the coronavirus pandemic progressed. I would represent this mood through abstract animations, using color, shapes, motion, and sound to artistically represent those feelings. For each month, starting with March, I made a different animation, starting with a happier, lighter animation that would…

Interactive Touch Project

This is my (updated) submission video for the interactive touch project. I continued with the theme of how coronavirus has changed us. For my physical object, I created an abstract fork sculpture. I then hooked up the fork sculpture to the makey makey board and used the center part as the touch part. For my…