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Monday, January 28, 2019

Polar Bear in a Plastic Iceberg

A daily doodle with Masterpiece VR..
heres the 3d model -

Polar Bear in Plastic Iceberg by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

see the sculpting session below

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Tilt Brush Doodle - Hawkman

A tilt brush doodle of hawkman. This software by google, works like a dream.. but some of the brushes use textures that are not optimised for sketchfab.. so I need to be carefull what I use. The sketching experience is incredible.. its unlike anything most artists will have experienced before.. I need to get my fiance into this.

Hawkman by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

view most of the creation process here -

Some more Hard surface with VR

Practiced some more hard surface sculpts in VR

Daily Doodle Quad Bike by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

The sculpting session can be seen below

Robots Sculpted in VR

Here are some of my early vr doodles.. where I actually got results I liked..

This is my favorite yet.. however I discovered the limits within which you can sculpt and couldnt figure out how to reposition my model.. so had to get creative with area below waist as there was no space to accomodate legs.. (20 min session)

Robot Wheeler by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

With this one I explored more complex forms.. (20min session)

Robot by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

And this one I tried to push myself.. and spent a good hr on the sculpting process.

Robot Guns by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

Thursday, December 13, 2018

VR Sculpting

Got a good deal on a Mixed Reality kit, so picked it up immediately!
I'd bookmarked it 6months back when it was 45k.. got it for 24k (INR).
Store link (was sold out when I checked last)

The headset tracks the controllers.. via "inside-out" tracking cameras, hence theres no need for external sensors and time consuming calibration processes.

So far its been a blast!
Here are some things I've sculpted in Masterpiece VR today
(click to load the model and touch+drag to rotate)

Jaw by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

Modded Venom by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

Some quick things to note if your getting into a Mixed Reality kit:
1) There is no "mixed reality" content available yet.. a year after it launched

2) Unless your using it with a laptop, you will need to buy a bluetooth adaptor yourself. They don't mention it as something you will need.. but you do. Thankfully I had been reading up on it in forums and discovered I would need one, so was prepared.

This is the generic one I got and it works fine.

3) Batteries. Buy a set of rechargeable AA batteries. the controllers drain them very fast.. especially(I suspect) since theres no off switch on them.

4) I'm mostly interested in sculpting and painting..not so much in gaming in VR(yet.. I am a PC and mobile gamer..so its possible that I might like VR gaming too)

5) We're using it with a desktop that has a GTX 1060 (6gb)graphics card, 16gb RAM, Kaby Lake Intel Core i7 7700 @ 3.60GHz
It runs great.

6) To the artists out there, I can say that this kit gets the job done and while being way more affordable than either the Occulus Rift or HTC Vive right now.

7) Discovered this obscure issue with the bluetooth controllers.. they would disconnect and not reconnect at times.

The solution:
1) Plug the dongle into the front of the cpu so that it gets no interference from any other wireless devices that might be plugged in at the back(in my case the wifi dongle is plugged in at the back)