{"id":1387,"date":"2021-09-21T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2021-09-24T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:22:52","slug":"blep-and-ece-interactive-touch-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/kgvalery\/blep-and-ece-interactive-touch-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Blep and Ece (V2 UPDATES) | Interactive Touch Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I completely changed around my interactive touch project, but here it is in all it&#8217;s glory!<br><br>(UPDATES ARE ADDED AT THE END)<br><br>My underappreciated truth was the strength and state of friendship, and in this case, especially between my Blep and Ece who I&#8217;ve mentioned previously. Below is a demo of the piece<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interactive Touch Project Ver 1.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5m6-C2Kv78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The background was made and rendered in Blender with some light post processing and animation in Krita to help adjust lighting. The pieces over top of the background were also animated in Krita and were drawn in. I tried to make the interaction project feel more like you were seeing the memories of Blep the lizard and his relationship with Ece. I wanted to express this through Blep&#8217;s happy memories with Ece, but also one where he&#8217;s concerned about Ece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever a use grounds themselves to Blep by holding his tounge and pressing the buttons, each of the different memories show up and eventually fade away to give the feeling of looking to the past.<br><br>I want to add more sounds and ambience to the piece as well as cleaning up the GIFs which didn&#8217;t have partial transparency for clean transition into the background. Below is all the scenes that will be visible when the user presses the buttons and a sketch of the new template for Blep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1390\" width=\"699\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/Project2_AnimationMASTER_AutoSave.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATES:<br>Since the project was finished I started to mainly focus on making a cleaner version of the controller. The version I&#8217;m working on currently will have lights that are around the collar of Blep and the newer version will be using a capacitive touch sensor instead of a Makey Makey. I wanted to remake the controller first and foremost because the crochet version was never intended to be part of the project, but was good for prototyping. I still need to add ambience, but I will be working over the weekend to polish more of the piece overall.<br><br>I ordered small &#8220;sequins&#8221; from adafruit recently that are flat LEDs. I got them in blue alongside a battery pack that can supply up to 6v. I admittedly like projects that will have a &#8220;second life&#8221; so to say and I wanted to make my second version of Blep be able to function as a light up plush because I thought it would be cool \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progress is going well, and I&#8217;m happy there were no issues with the body part of the template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1447\" width=\"-241\" height=\"-321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210923_235842-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completely changed around my interactive touch project, but here it is in all it&#8217;s glory! (UPDATES ARE ADDED AT THE END) My underappreciated truth was the strength and state of friendship, and in this case, especially between my Blep and Ece who I&#8217;ve mentioned previously. Below is a demo of the piece The background&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/kgvalery\/blep-and-ece-interactive-touch-project\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interactive-touch-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/09\/20210921_093111-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}