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Within the objective to inspire people to “move differently”, MOVE DIFFERENT is a 3 day Movement/Design Pop Up Exhibition produced by MDR.STUDIO from Oct 19-Oct 21. Examining our relationship with movement through an interactive space, workshops, performances, and talks, MDR exhibition shows a full house of arts and installations including big scale audio visual parkour bars, photographies, clothing, product designs as well as my multiplayer interactive projection project: "Avatar”.

Akim the funk buddha experimenting the slow moves

Akim the funk buddha experimenting the slow moves

Player triggered hidden skill by exploring movement

Player triggered hidden skill by exploring movement

  • Concept

    Inspired by the concept in dance when dancers are often imagining themselves as weird creatures, as animals, cartoon characters or obtaining energy flows through the body, as well as aligning with the idea of motivating players to move differently,  and  each character has chosen on purposely within very unique body type (huge, tiny, long-arms, animals, robots, very long hair, etc), as well as the ability to able trigger hidden special skills and effects  (flying, invoke chakra or throwing space rock, etc) by moving in certain way.

  • Workflow

    The system is developed using Unity and Kinect v2, within proximally a week of working hours for completion, starting from concept design for 6 sets cartoon themes, gathering open-source models, rigging or re-rigging in Cinema4D, environmental design, basic animations, scripting, multi-user testing and physical installation. 

  • Software & Tools

    Characters Modification: Blender, Blender XPS Plugin, Cinema4D

    Game Development: Unity 2018, Unity Kinect V2 Plugin

  • Other Credits

    Original Modeling: Ngô Văn Đáng

    Videos: Kenta thomas naoi, Ebenezer Akon, MRD Studio

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Besides the Avatar project, the MDR studio team has make great effort developing the audio visual parkour bar installation that responding to player’s touching and the audio. Pretty neat!

People hanging out on the interactive parkour bar

People hanging out on the interactive parkour bar

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All MDR POPUP exhibitors and collaborators

All MDR popup members and exhibitors

Admix Collective / Qiu Yi Wu / Stephen Duke / Andrew Kung / Vanessa Granda / Jannai Jones / Slate Werner / Kyle Mosholder