News and updates from the CRC
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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Summary Native Dancer has been taking steps toward accomplishing more authentic assets in the intended game environments. Through the Vertex school courses, I have been able to successfully complete a drum for purposes in the game. I did this using the same pipeline process previously used to create the […]
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 […]
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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist As mentioned in a previous blog, the Native Dancer Metaverse project is using a cloth simulation tool compatible with Marvelous Designer and the Unreal engine called uDraper. Since the making of the demo video of the grass dancer available to watch here on YouTube, there has been […]
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 The Native Dancer Metaverse project is making progress in various areas of development. Since showing the demo video of the Grass dancer, we have been able to move forward with getting the female Fancy Shawl dancer closer to moving as well. This has involved completing her regalia, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]