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 Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This past month, the team working on the Native Dancer Metaverse project has been making progress in various areas to further the project goals. Included in September’s agenda was presenting information about Native Dancer at UTTC’s Tribal Leadership Conference. Included in the presentation was information about the […]

 Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist While we have worked on getting the Male character equipped with the rest of his Grass dance regalia in Unreal, we have faced other issues. A problem with the current hair styles in metahuman is that they are not culturally appropriate for Regalia. It is more appropriate […]

 Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist For the past few weeks, we have been busy with multiple tasks involving Native Dancer. Mainly working on fitting the clothing and accessories to the Male Character in Unreal. We have now moved onto getting the Female Character and Jingle dress to the same stages as the […]

 Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Another really cool, and useful set of tools we have in the UND DREAM Lab are the 3D scanners. 3D scanners can be used to scan real objects to create a 3D replica. Objects scanned are then used in other software and projects. The objects scanned aren’t […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist The Native Dancer Project is still making progress, despite the blogs being a little scarce the past few weeks as I have been using my writing time a little differently. I have been researching and pre-writing to enrich my first Case study Journal entry that will be […]

The UND CRC will hold a workshop on image segmentation using Fiji/ImageJ software on the Talon supercomputer. The workshop will be Thursday, June 15, from 10:00am to noon CT. The workshop, hosted by Cecilia Ling, will cover topics such as how to access Fiji on Talon, image segmentation, creating segmentation models, and fine-tuning models. This […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist What Is Unreal Engine?  I have mentioned how we will be using Unreal Engine to develop and create the Native Dancer game demo in past posts, however, have not talked about it extensively. In today’s blog post I will discuss how we are using an Unreal Engine […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist I have been learning to use a lot of different software since I began working for UND’s CRC, and learning Maya has been something I have been wanting to do for a while now. I was very excited to begin using maya, as I have gotten familiar […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Each of the male and female characters come together nicely but are missing some distinguishing elements to each regalia set. Regalia accessories are important to each individual dancer, as they represent traditional values and are meant to be proudly worn and displayed when dancing. Often these items are personal […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist The past few weeks have been busy for me while I have been working on several tasks involving Native Dancer. A few weeks ago, I took some time to prepare and present the work done so far at TNRG’s Data matters Conference in Belcourt ND which resides […]