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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”.

• 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

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!