Tag: virtual world

i made a virtual world dance video

i made a dance video and i really want to share it with you because you are the one who knows inside me.

i haven’t made one of these since 2017 and i’m so excited because the way it went was truly like a gift.

i made the music on a program called Mixcraft8 which i used to use when i used windows. i used sampled sound loops that i would edit to the point of refining some of them down to individual notes and placing them exactly where i wanted them. i now use linux and have finally begun self tutoring myself on an open source music manipulation program. So far i love it as it has been not loops but from scratch and i am teaching myself how to make my own loops.

The dance is done in the virtual world and there are five of me dancing as a dance troupe. We all have a dance HUD which means we all contribute with our individual dance styles to make up the choreography.

The way it is done is, the actual dance animations are professionally made by a real dancer wearing body sensors and they capture the movement on computer and process this. This is called Motion Capture and is coined “Mocap” for short. These mocap animations usually are about 45 seconds long and this does vary quite a lot.

In the virtual world i buy these mocap dance animations, and i put them into a HUD (heads up display). This allows me to select the animation i desire at the precise beat in the music. I often hit a dance animation at every eight bars of music so in this way i am doing live choreography and recording the video there and then. I rehearse considerably before i go to record as i carefully work with the animations and the music to produce choreography just like i do in the real world with my own ability to dance. (i trained in ballet and ballroom extensively when i was younger).

The music track is called “Along the way” and it is done by “Elf Wingtips”

All the accreditation is on youtube in the description to honor the dancers and the people who brought them to the virtual world of second life.

i really hope you find joy in it as i do. i want to be with you in this.

my art

i’ve been working slowly on a project in Unity the game developer building program. I am still a beginner with this really but i wanted to show you as it is making me happy.

I have made everything you see in these pictures. The models i built in blender, the terrain i molded in Unity and all the different textures for everything, i made in Gimp photo manipulation program using the paint brush tools and my computer mouse.

i really hope i get to figure out how to drive my boats around in here. I want to learn little stuff also like how to put the terrain texture as different on different heights.

i have built some avatars in blender and need to learn how to animate them in this world. i want to drive and sail the boats that way. i see the virtual world as a limitless form of art expression and experience.

i have begun building a motor driven version of the carvel displacement hull sail boat as these were often converted in this fashion by fishermen. It’s not finished to where i would like it to be before i bring it into my own virtual world, so i wanted to show how it is looking in the virtual world of second life.

carvel putt putt

i’ve built the crank/drive shaft with the fly wheel on one end and the propeller on the other and have it running with sound. i also have built the exhaust water cool exit that is mounted on the transom and also has the continuation of the pipe inside that bends and goes down into the floor. The deck and cabin has been rebuilt to put some portholes in it.

i spend all my days at home doing some form of creativity or study as i’ve not been able to fit into society. i hope you like my work and thank you for observing it.