Originating from a concept design that Dejan had sent (original
work of Damjan Stankovic), this project was my visual response
to some of the elements that were in the design. The metaphor was
that of scanning for a virus in a spherical matrix of data –
I looked at this file later and thought that it could be part of
the ‘operating system’ of the 3d
speaker. A virus in a speaker?
I was content with this file after creating a texture of an opacity
map. I didn’t really know where to go with the movement of
the file….I decided to take the RGB value (eg 255, 255, 255)
of a single pixel from 750 images creating a data file with a value
in this range. Then applied this data to the 3d inner square that
is ‘scanning’ the file creating a movement that does
look a bit strange but does give a good effect of linear scanning.
The lighting of the file was very important as a slight glossy look
helps to create the shape of the sphere and gives the object a digital
glow.
Infection_found
When an infection is found the object is zoomed up revealing the
infection and then ‘quarantined’ and removed. This sequence
was a series of compositions in AE of animated circles (with a glowing
pulse when infection removed) and a textual overlay of the file
type.
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