Fragments of the Past is an Immersive Experience where you get to undergo through the memories of a hospitalized world-war I veteran that, due to an undisclosed accident, he's sat on a wheelchair.

For this project I have challenged myself in both the software & Immersive aspects, where I have looked into making two separate render spaces where the second render space is being shown through a pair of eyeglasses, which has lead me to discovering stencil-layered shading!

Alongside this, I have also looked into making a bespoke shadow-puzzle system where the shadow silhouette of an object makes out a different shape when lit over a background picture. ( Refference: R.E. 7 )

Lastly, in order to elevate the authenticity of the experience I have rented out a wheelchair  for the player to sit on whilst playing the experience.

Fragments of the Past has been showcased  in a public exhibition event in Coventty University's Delia Derbyshire Hyperstudio, where I have had a lot of guests & visitors trying out the experience.  For the feedback I've had people moved  by the themes & topics that FotP is featuring, alongside the whole Immersive construct helping with the delivering of the story behind the player character.

In another one of my projects, I had the opportunity to develop an open-ended project which had to involve motion capture. But I also had 6 weeks worth of time to put the project together, which, in turn affected the range of ideas available to work on. So the best choice was to make a  5 minute short pilot film inside Unity using the Mocap studio available within' the university premises.

The project involved a collection of different software: Shogun Suite for the mocap recording & exporting animation clips, Blender to model the character & parent the animation clip over the character's & export the animated character clip & then Unity in order to arrange the pilot film's animation clips & environment FX under the timeline tool.

At one point of the module, I have co-assisted the Course Director in stabilizing the pipeline & Identifying a more efficient workflow for sticking the static models over the motion capture animation clips.

Due to this part, however, I had to sacrifice SFX quality for the pilot film, prioritizing strictly on camera shots, environment, visuals, VFX & Animations as I could no longer fit all the SFX into the logistics timeframe.

So, the overall output looks high-quality minus the SFX having some rough edges that needed to be polished out, but the pilot film still came to be as intended!