3D Worlds - Showcase of My Students' projects

Here's a showcase of some work by my students done in blender. 

Steampunk Engineer's Workshop by Sanigdhaya on Sketchfab

A 10 year old's room! by MariGold on Sketchfab

Cel shaded - Ramen Bowl Model by Nilay Gomkale on Sketchfab

wall e and eva final diorama by vishnuprateek on Sketchfab

Hidden Library-Environment by Prish on Sketchfab

helicopter by disharamesh212002 on Sketchfab

Ancient forest Altar by sanjanau on Sketchfab

Mystical Jungle - LowPoly by Harsh Kamat on Sketchfab

TentEYEcles by sashadelilah on Sketchfab

fortune by yanamenacherry on Sketchfab

Castle with Kingdom by artistoshaunak on Sketchfab

Witch Far Travel

Gave the witch a way to travel over vast distances.. using maps and spells.

Heres the 3d scene, click to play and then drag and scroll to navigate 

Witch Far Travel by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

The Stakeout

 

After weeks of staking out this spot.. finally our subjects arrive.. lets take a closer look.

Hit the Play button in the player below and then, use the “K” key to play through,
or the annotations navigation controls(arrows on the bottom of the viewer) to look around.
You can further explore the scene by scrolling(zoom) or dragging(rotate) with your mouse.

The Stakeout by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

VVVV at a Workshop with Jonathan OHear

In Nov 2022, I attended a workshop with Jonathan OHear at Attakalari. This was an interesting workshop for me, as it had been a long time since I had sat down to learn something new. In this case something entirely outside my comfort zone - VVVV 


On each day Jonathan introduced us to byte sized concepts in lighting and coding, in what I as an educator, found was a well thought out and manageable lesson plan. 

We learnt how to program an ESP32 variant that had wifi and bluetooth as well as a battery pack(added by the support team Transmedia at Attakalri)


The workshop culminated in a show where we showcased our projects for the public.

This was pretty much my first time doing any electronics in over a decade, was pleasantly surprised with how simple things had gotten. 
We learnt to control DMX lights as well as LEDs and use sensor inputs from everything  from motion sensors to brain scanning devices.


I however opted to use a webcam(modified for infrared) to track a person's movement and use that to manipulate a 3d model that would generate particles, based on the movement.
Heres what that looked like:

Unfortunately I dont have any pictures or footage from the final day, but it was pretty much what you see above. The 3d model I used as the base object that would be the emitter of particles, was a 3d scan of my desk at SMI.

Desk at Work by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

This is the patch I eventually had.. 

heres a primer:

For anyone who may need this in future heres the setup I got working - DOWNLOAD
Have added a dampner to delay/soften the movement and color transitions.
Used the mesh from a 3d scan of my office desk as the emitter.

Heres a forum thread that was a big help to me.


On the last day we put on a little show for the public, allowing them to witness and interact with our creations.

This is the happy group on day 1 - 

Hope to run into them again!

Witch

Found the time to quickly doodle this for the weekly art challenge.

Witch by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

To know more about the challenge or the prompt list, check this link - Sketchfab Weekly - Sketchfab Community Blog - Sketchfab Community Blog



Modelled in Blender. Hex textures done in Inkscape.

Cyberpunk Catbed

Did a scan of our cat Pinku the other day while she was fast asleep.
This is what I did with that scan

The original scan had some bugs because the lighting was suboptimal, so large chunks were missing.

Pinku the cat by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab 

I took it to Blender to explore some repair techniques, but woundup building this contraption around it.

Heres the finished model..

Cyberpunk Catbed Porcelain by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

You can also try it in AR with Snapchat - 
This link or use the snapcode below

You can also try it in Instagram with this code:

Heres a video of the process I followed to use the 3d scan of my cat in the model. It covers cleanup and using the decimate modifier to optimise the geometry.

Voxel Batman

 Made a quick model for Batman Day 2022
(cheated the traditional voxel process, by using the Remesh Modifier in Blender)

Heres a timelapse of the process. Scroll down for the normal speed video.

Heres the 3d Model

Batman Day Voxel Style by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

The video below is of the entire session from start to finish.