Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary This year the Native Dancer Project had the opportunity to present the work that has been done, at UNDs 55th Annual Writers Conference. This event featured guest authors: Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Laura Marris, Ava Chin, Terrance Hayes, and Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. Additionally, I was invited to be the featured […]
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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist The Native Dancer Metaverse Project is making progress in various areas of development as well as taking on other endeavors that will help the project overall reach some end goals. Aside from continuing to build gaming assets (accessories) for our characters, I have begun an online gaming […]
The UND CRC is now a member of the Open Science Grid (OSG) Consortium. The CRC is contributing spare compute cycles on UND’s Talon system to OSG’s Open Science Pool (OSPool). The OSPool is available for use by US-based research projects. This bolsters the economic strength of the nation. OSG provides computing capacity to researchers […]
Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This blog post is meant to showcase the demonstration video of the Native Dancer Grass Dancer Character. In the demo, he is fully dressed in regalia and is in motion using Motion Capture Data that was prerecorded using live powwow dancers. For more information and to see […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]