VR Art Exercise
VR 3D Art
For this exercise we explored the uses of 3D VR painting using softwares such as Open Brush, Gravity Sketch and Shapes XR. These softwares exploit the nature of VR being 3d to allow the user to create brush strokes in mid air. This can have amazing results allowing creativity to flow in ways impossible before however as I learned, it is no easy feat to design in 3D. As we began the exercise we joined into a large group and decided to for our first attempt attempt to recreate a vr version of the tunnel scene in coraline as seen here.
Difficulties
As you can see with this particular software the lines are very harsh leading to some difficulty achieving a desirable finished outcome. Meaning If I were to attempt to use this technology for my project I would not be able to achieve the results I would be looking for, The alternative to this would be software such as Gravity Sketch which allows you to create more solid lines and smoothed out designs rather than the very harsh brush strokes achieved in Open brush which make smooth lines more difficult.
When creating this piece we also were taking turns doing one part at a time then moving to the next person, this paired with not knowing the techniques of the software could have slowed results so its important for me to not write off the software based purely on this experience, as I do think that openbrush has its place in my toolkit for certain use cases involving a more rough artistic style.
OpenBrush
With that in mind as part of the Exercise we tried again to create a more cohesive open brush piece however this time we explored a more varied selection of brushes which allowed a more solid structure within the software, in an attempt to right the shortcomings of the coraline exercise. This was significantly more effective as it allowed a planetary solar system to be created by our team with a much more recognisable artistic design style. Therefore proving the variety of brushes allows the software to be way more useful than I had initially thought.
References
(No date), Coraline Gifer.com. Available at: https://gifer.com/en/7wSr (Accessed: 3 November 2024).
