Thing made of things
Artfully arrange a given selection of assets from the game Everything. Use these objects as building blocks to create an object that in the process renders the original objects secondary (but not necessarily unimportant).
It doesn’t have to be realistic nor to follow the law of physics! Play with scale and forms, it can be surreal and impossible.
You can use models found online but there are many things to consider, watch this video first.
Requirements
Change background and ground color by changing the materials
Stay within the round area in the scene
Deliverable
The delivery format is 1 to 3 still images showing no interface elements.
The screenshot must be taken from Unity’s play mode through script provided.
Hit play > Move camera with WASD + QE + right mouse to orbit.
By default screenshots are taken with the space key
Screenshots will appear in the assets folder under “screenshots”.
The first time you may have to right click on the assets panel and hit refresh.
You can also take a video with the camera rotating around the sculpture.
To record HD videos follow this tutorial
The recordings end up in the project folder, the same where the assets folder is. NOT in assets.
Post them along with a title.
Grading Criteria
You made a new thing out of things
There is attention to form, color, silhouettes
The objects form new visual and symbolic relationships
The elements form a cohesive unit, it looks like a sculpture or an art installation, you didn’t make a diorama
Template
Download this package (virtual sculpture, assets from Everything)
Open Unity Hub
New project
Select 3D core
Give it a name that makes sense like Virtual Sculpture
Select a location that makes sense like your external hard drive or the local document folder
Confirm, it will take a few minutes
Double click on the package with Unity open, import everything.
Open the scene Sculpture and save it as something else like SculpturePaolo
Tutorial
Watch this introduction to Unity as assignment for next time:
Still life
For the purpose of this assignment let’s call “still life” any image that involves an artful arrangement of ordinary objects.
As usual look for references and inspirations outside of the digital realm.
Blow Up – Ori Gersht
Blow Up – Ori Gersht
Things Made out of Things
Some art references from an assignment in my intermediate, real time studio class
Forever Bicycles – Ai WeiWei
Based on a coat of traditional Asian armor, this sculpture is composed from thousands of polished military dog tags. As the title indicates, the work juxtaposes the collective-represented by the armored sculpture-and the individual-symbolized by the dog tags, each representing a single soldier.
*González-Torres’ partner Ross Laycock was diagnosed with AIDS, and died of it the same year as “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)’s creation. pile of candies should ideally weigh 175 pounds (79 kg)—Laycock’s body weight when healthy.[3] Viewers are encouraged to take a piece and the artwork’s owner are to decide if it will be replenished.
Jessica Stockholder, Once upon a time
