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Procedural Animation Workshop 2011

claus — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:47:23 +0000

Like in 2010, I held the “Procedural Animation” class at the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg in October 2011. Again, the students had to create a procedural still using MEL or Python in Autodesk Maya. This year, the task was to visualize a part of the computer’s directory tree. The data was all given by the file system — file sizes, directories, files, links, file names, creation-/modification-/last-access-dates, number of files in a directory, file types, file extensions,… After one and a half days of theoretical introduction and one and a half day of actual work, the students produced great artworks, in both artistic and technical regard.

Here are some of the results:

Christian Schulze — software directory

Johannes Lindtner, Moritz Palnstorfer

Yana Andreeva, Andreas Atzlinger

Christian Holzer, Johannes Pfeifer

Markus Berger, Fabian Wolf

Thomas Heller

Manuel Wieser — Python32 directory

Procedural Animation Workshop

claus — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:16:20 +0000

Last week I held a class called “Procedural Animation” at the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg (Masters Degree Digital Arts). After having to listen to some theory, the students had to create a procedural artwork using MEL or Python in Autodesk Maya. The task was to visualize spam-emails. The results are really cool I think. They were all created by generating 3D geometry based on various parameters, gathered from parsed text files (spam emails), and by adding some randomness here and there. Good job!

Spamulisation - Maximilian Lögler, Laura Greil, Sigrid Garstenauer

generative fractal text visualisation – Jürgen Koller, Matthias Isele, Dominique Sellitsch

Spam Invaders – Spam Generated Pixel Enemies – Marko Jelen

Last Christmas – Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

Lukas_12_22_32 – Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

paulihateuchlieb - Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

Spam‐Columns – Stefan Srb, Marko Jelen

SpamTree - Alexander Pippan, Stephan Schimpf, Wolfgang Schröck

KAT / SIT Update

claus — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:24:28 +0000

Just did a variation on the Kat Poster, changing the sign to Sit. It went to those very nice guys at a design atelier called »SIT Designbureau« in the center of Linz, where I was stationed for a few months in 2010. See more here.