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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Although I have not posted a blog in a few weeks, the Native Dancer Project is going well. Due to the holidays, and some delayed travel due to weather I have put posting on hold. Amongst these delays was sharing and presenting the Native Dancer project with […]
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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist As mentioned in the blog earlier from this week, I have been going back and making adjustments on various clothing designs I had already done in Marvelous Designer. Another thing I went back and looked at was the jingle element used on the first Jingle Dress. After […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Progress with the Native Dancer (ND) Project is going well. Working through various parts of the designs has helped me to progress past designs of street clothing and continue to move forward with making regalia. During the short holiday week, I focused more on the paper proposal […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist For the past week and a half, I have been busy refining the designs of the jingle dress/dresses. I have finally been able to move forward with the design in Marvelous Designer(MD) after fully planning out the designs. In this post, I will be discussing all the […]
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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This week I worked on detailing the choice design for the first regalia piece we will create on a 3D character. As discussed in past meetings and discussions with the Native Dancer advisory team, we wanted a full jingle dress with sleeves that come together at the […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist The overall idea behind creating these characters in regalia started with a concept, and sketches early in the character development to understand the overall goal. After creating characters and familiarizing myself with the Marvelous Designer (MD) software via the creation of street clothing I began to plan to […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist My research into native American representation in the metaverse and video games so far has gone well. The overall tone of what I am finding is that no one has done it without some sort of criticism, but many have been praised for various aspects. The first […]
Sr. Research and Education Facilitator for the UND Computational Research Center, David Apostal, was recently certified as an instructor and granted University Ambassadorship status in the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute University Ambassador Program. As a certified instructor, David is able to deliver NVIDIA-designed hands-on workshops that cover a range of topics including GPU-accelerated computing, AI, […]