![Siobhan Lawson](/img/default-banner.jpg)
- Видео 11
- Просмотров 19 482
Siobhan Lawson
Добавлен 5 дек 2022
Interactive installation promoting body awareness for wellbeing. (TouchDesigner/ Kinect Azure)
This interactive installation uses projection and body tracking sensors to promote the idea of body awareness as a tool for well-being. The installation would be well suited for a well-being festival or event and can be scaled to fit a range of spaces. Based in Glasgow, UK, the project is created with TouchDesigner and a Kinect Azure sensor.
Thanks to @elekktronaut for all the tutorials that helped me develop the skills to make this project!
Thanks to @elekktronaut for all the tutorials that helped me develop the skills to make this project!
Просмотров: 437
Видео
Dichroic Film: experimental applications
Просмотров 4668 месяцев назад
Testing Dichroic Film for use in an interactive installation. Indoor and outdoor, with natural light, artificial and coloured light. Stencil motifs and an OHP with live drawing.
Testing Interactive Watercolour Effect with Kinect in TouchDesigner
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.Год назад
In-studio tests following a TouchDesigner tutorial of a watercolour effect by Bileam Tschepe, linking the effect with a Kinect sensor and highlighting some mistakes I made along the way. Here's a link to the watercolour tutorial I followed: ruclips.net/video/0nI8V7XZ7yk/видео.html
Best flooring for projection reflections: black or white vinyl?
Просмотров 247Год назад
In this video, I lay a section of black and white vinyl over a domestic wooden floor to test reflections from the projector content.
Kinect Azure and TouchDesigner: quick and easy effects
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
I took a few tutorials and made some quick sketches on my computer and in the studio for some simple effects that can be achieved in little time. I used both the player index and Kinect camera, instancing, and feedback with edge.
What makes a good Immersive Light Experience? London Review #shorts
Просмотров 145Год назад
Trailer for full video where I review 7 Immersive Experiences in London in 2023
Reviewing 7 Immersive Experiences in London: Twist, Frameless, Dali, Dopamine Land...
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.Год назад
Mistakes and successes in immersive experience design. As someone designing their own, I take a research trip to London in Feb 2023 to learn from what's out there. I visit and review Dopamine Land, Frameless, Flippers Roller Rink, Twist, The Outernet, Richard Mosse at 180 The Strand and Dali Cybernetics 0:00 Overview 0:26 Intro and analysis criteria 1:53 Dopamine Land 3:57 Frameless 6:27 Flippe...
Taking a TouchDesigner webcam feedback effect into the studio.
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.Год назад
I test out some displacement and feedback effects using TouchDesigner and a webcam on my screen.Then I take it into the studio which highlights physical space considerations and projector limitations.
Process Journal: Time Machine and Scottish Rainforest
Просмотров 126Год назад
I test out an effect in TouchDesigner that superimposes a person's body onto video footage. This is research for an immersive experience project. I visit a local rainforest to capture video content and come across some challenges.
Optikinetics Solar 250 Old vs New comparison. Panoramic Rotator, Multi Mirror and Kaleidoscope Lens
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.Год назад
I compare the light quality of the original Optikinetics Solar 250 with the updated LED version and take a look at some of the new lens and effect accessories of the new model.
A new creative business and time for well-being? My intention to live the dream
Просмотров 175Год назад
I share my plan to build a new practice creating immersive experiences that will also support a vibrant and nourishing lifestyle for me! Being a creative generalist (perpetually learning something new), it’s time to assimilate my skills for the ultimate vocation.
Very interesting work, and beautiful. How did you manage to complete that mirror effect and did you track hands or thumps or something else? Also, what kinect did you use? Thank you for your time, Amazing work!
Thanks for this. Trying to take my girlfriend on interesting dates and this saved me some disappointment I recon haha. Twist it is. More videos like this would be a treat. Maybe escape room style experiences, Just a thought. Thanks again
Very helpful, thanks! Can I ask- when standing in front of the LED version, and looking ahead at the light, is it blinding? Or not really? I want to use it as a backdrop for a live music gig, and obviously stand and play in front of the light that is projected behind me on the wall. Thanks
I think I'd find it quite annoying shining right on me for any length of time - it's the same as having any light shining right at you, maybe you are used to this? Also depends how sensitive you are to glare. Perhaps coming in at an angle or directed behind you could be a good compromise, or just on your lower body.
@@siobhan_lawsongot it thanks!
Hiya - Interesting. Looking good
Hello Xylo, Prem here from India, been following your content for quite some time & must say your insights help me a lot as I'm a design student. If you may, can I contact you through email to learn more about immersive experiences? I'd appreciate that as immersive experience is my thesis topic. I Look Forward to Hearing from you !
Hey, what would you like to know?
@@siobhan_lawson Actually I'm doing a thesis project, where I'll be designing an immersive experience. As I'm from India and there aren't such events for case study I could use your help. Can we connect through Google meet or zoom meeting for this? It'll be of huge help for me and I promise, It won't take much time.
Can you please link all the tutorials you used?
Hello, here's the tutorial I started with, then played around with: ruclips.net/video/QGuquFiInqY/видео.html
section one has a fantastic aesthetic, also glad to see more TouchDesigner content on your channel!
Thanks!
Take the rubber edging off the wheels to run doubles
Thanks I'll try that!
Thanks for this video. Just looking to get a projector for psychedelic light shows for bands - but confused with all the different options there are!
Sure there's lots of options out there but if I were choosing between and old or new Solar 250 & didn't have either already, I'd definitely get a new one.
Worked with the older black & grey versions in the late 80's through the early 90's, and recently decided to get a pair of the newer ones to throw some color around the house and private shindigs. Lighter, quieter, cooler, brighter - all positives in my book. I would prefer a "warmer" LED color - or rather perhaps the option of having one - but considering a lot of venues present far from pitch-black scenarios, the brighter LED is an overall plus (and I'm not going to have to replace lamps!). With the magnetic mounts, I imagine (despite the situation that happened here with using the older wheel on the newer projector) far less oil wheel breakage than in the past. I do wonder what issues will crop up with the "active gate" over time (corrosion, electrical and physical wear) and I bet those rather delicate mini-switches on them are going to need replacing soon enough - due to some heavy-handed tech or from inadvertent rough handling while installing/removing the gate or during packing and shipping. Thanks for the demos on the differences between the two models! I, for one, am quite happy with the new model.
Hi! I'd love to see the video!!! When do you think it will be up?
Nice work
We need tutorial 🙏🏼
I love your setup, with the projector sceeen room. I'll definitely set something similar up if i ever find the space haha
Using two magnetic mounts is what pushed the two wheels so close together. With the screw on mounts the wheels are further apart.
Yeah the vr was what did it for me too I would have been disappointed without that
Thanks for sharing your videos on TouchDesigner interactivity with Kinect. Would love to achieve that for public audiences to get the thrill of interacting with projections
so beautiful
I swear we have some of these at my workplace somewhere..
did u use 1 or 2 azure ?
Hey I've been using the Azure but going to try the Kinect 2 next so I can pre-record footage, to save me having to stand up all the time :D
@@siobhan_lawson i mean did you use 1 azure kinect or 2?
@@macitseferi1843 Ah, just one
Thanks for this well-put-together review of these experiences. Very digestible review format.
The worst immersive experience to date was Stranger Things so overpriced, short and generally rubbish on all accounts! As a fan I was hugely disappointed!
Interesting, from youtube reviews I thought people seemed to enjoy that one. Hard to tell
@Sickofallthis The Stranger Things immersive experience isn't a musical, its an experience that your immersed within the experience, just Google it and it should explain it, either way it was rubbish, absolute waste of money!
How did you do that ,little insight of your work
Hey, check out this tutorial, I just followed it for most of the effects and then tweaked them, assigned each ball to follow my hand positions ruclips.net/video/0nI8V7XZ7yk/видео.html
hello there i have one question that how to track more then one people with hand position for this setup. for more then one people we have multiple values then how we use those values for position??
Hello, there is a player identity attached to each set of data points. So you could specify p1 (player`1) hand tip or p2 handtip to assign your position values
give this woman some more views very helpful
Mmmmmmh I just watched that tutorial and thought yeah I want to link it up to Kinect . Neat little effect
All the tweaks you can do within that tutorial too, so many varied effects
Hello, is it possible to get contacts from you?
Hi that's not something I give out but am on LinkedIn if it's something of a professional nature
I'm interested to know what you are creating?
Thanks for your curiosity, it's coming together slowly and I'm aiming for it to be ready by October. I will certainly post more when the time comes.
This is great. Thank you. I was planning on taking my sons to Dopamine Land. It was wonderful seeing other options. My boys are autistic and I would love them to experience the type of well thought out, immersive experience, you describe. We would definitely visit one you design because I can tell a great deal of thought would go into it.
Thank you and I hope you had a good time on your day out, wherever you went!
This is really cool! Where can I learn more on how to do this?
Hey thanks! Try this tutorial: ruclips.net/video/QGuquFiInqY/видео.html I looked at instancing with the Immersive HQ channel and for the happy accident loop (my fav!) I just pointed the kinect at the projection surface, used the camera select as the baground & composited it with a coloured player index & a layer of edge feedback (as in the tutorial above)
@@siobhan_lawson Thank you! I had never heard of any of this stuff. I mostly mess around with old projectors, but this is definitely something I'd like to get into.
@@elliotl8830 Its a lot of fun!
This was just great! Including all of the negatives & positives really is such a nice change of pace (most people just say EVERYTHING IS AMAZING). I'm going to check out Twist for sure off of you're review!
Thanks, that was quite illuminating, I’ve never been to any light 💡 installation. Some seemed no more than vacuous novelty, a day out with the kids ? The more outside one, seemed to create very high quality fractal type visuals, but once you pass through it and admire such, it seemed to have fulfilled its limited purpose. The art install that took 7 years, looks like it could have been compelling. The Dali seemed a shame, I imagine his art could work well with some sort of light/graphical installation, but the projection looked very poor. It must be exceptionally expensive to create a really worthwhile install, it must be difficult also to not fall down a rabbit hole of novelty. Because of how much I appreciate, playing some music and submerging myself in visuals, I can imagine some amazing things could be created though, but I feel it would need to be submersive and flow in some continuum, an emotional journey. Maybe something like the simple journey from nothing via life through to death into nothing. Or something a bit like the quatsi trilogy/ baraka where there is a transition from the natural world into the world industrial world. Or Maybe a journey of the 20th century from basic industry to technology. Even an install playing with Kubricks 2001 a space odyssey. I feel the installs need a narrative a concept!
Yes there is a lot to think about! A little at a time. I'd visit a Space Odyssey themed one, nice idea
very nice! could you take video for tutorial about this video?
I need to learn a lot more about TD before I'll be ready for tutorials, but when that day comes... This probably looks more complex than it is as I've split the colour channels
Maybe it’s biological memory, trying to create awe to resonate with, when if there wasn’t light pollution we just look at the light show in the sky!
I have a old PANASONIC PT-AR100U 2800 lumen projector I used to use for home cinema, I still have it on a shelf in room doing nothing, I kind of hoped to use it some how to have it synched to music and have it create visuals, I think there is some sort of software for light shows, but don’t know if it synchs with music, anyway thanks for sharing, all seems very interesting, I had no idea people could work within such fields of light and image.
Someone recommended MAX for generating visuals that respond to sound. I haven't used it but it looks interesting: cycling74.com/products/max
@Xylo Immersive thanks I will look into that.
maybe a dead comment but a great way would be analyzing audio with max and send trig or OSC envelopes to Touchdesigner
@@MrBlackamamba TouchDesigner also has it's own audio analyser that is great for this
Good luck, merging a variety of things, creates something novel, it seems that’s what evolution has been doing since the dawn of time, so why shouldn’t you. I had an inkling to create a psychedelic eating experience with gelato and optikinetics and music, a place that you don’t know if you there to eat or be, tying in my hobbies, of course I never bothered, it’s so much easier to think than to do.
You've got a commercially viable idea for sure, but yes you have to want to do it and have the time. It's a shame we have to choose just a few things!
@Xylo Immersive I’m currently trapped in the viscous gelato anyway, it certainly be more fun if a additional experience was part of such, but the the thought is probably another of my ephemeral moments.
I’m guessing the led is much quieter ? I have an old optikinetics clone, and it makes a real racket, I just use it in house for personal use. I’m thinking the 65mm lense would be best for home use as it’s short throw and create a bigger image at a shorter through distance.
Oh yes, so so much quieter! And yes about the 65mm lens, I didn't have to buy two lenses, I just chose the wider one instead of the standard
@Xylo Immersive will try find a 60mm lens on eBay. I would like a led solar, but can’t bring myself to spend £550 on one just for home use, but there is nothing quite like them, as the movement of the image is organic and akin to a lava lamp.
Solar is super quiet.
LED ones seem perfect for people new to it. I really enjoy the color of the light of the halogen much better. Thanks for the vid you have lots of cool stuff!