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Midwinter Carnival Projection Art

Projections on church wall at night

The Dunedin Midwinter Carnival’s 2024 theme was “Creatures of the Deep” & in collaboration with Dan Aston/Vision Chips I authored a number of deep sea themed 3D assets for projection onto the First Church of Otago, a heritage building at the centre of the carnival.

deepsea assets

I leveraged vertex coloration heavily for the sea floor assets. Building for TouchDesigner I wanted to ensure as much data was bundled into the 3D files and available for quick programatic mixing.

deepsea assets

Anglerfish

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Asset coverage with morphs

Single fish mesh and texture warped to differetn shapes In order to allow hundreds of fish to be instance as background objects I created a single fish mesh with greyscale texture. This mesh can be warped between blend shapes to create fish with different proportions and a greyscale image texture allows each model to be recolored with vertex colors or via shaders.