Transformation Mask is a shared work created by Shawn Hunt and a team of artists, designers and engineers at Microsoft Vancouver. In this talk, Robert and Jeremy cover how they leveraged Houdini’s procedural nature to overcome the production challenges of fabricating the mask as well as thoughts on future improvements for 3D printing workflows.
Behind the Mask: Exploring the Origins of the Transformation Mask The SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery will fuse technology and art to bridge the gap between the past and the future. The theme for this year’s gallery is “Origins,” which aims to articulate myth and technology, science and art, the deep past, and the computational present. All of …
Microsoft Vancouver and our in-house maker space, The Garage, unveiled a creative collaboration with Heiltsuk artist, Shawn Hunt, on June 30th at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of FUSE. Titled, ‘Transformation Mask’, it is a shared work created by Hunt and a team of artists, designers and engineers at Microsoft.
I was recently asked if I wanted to take part in a competition organised by Newark Canada and presented with VHS ( Big thanks to Tom); a challenge that focused on a very interesting and versatile product, conductive ink. I received a pen in the mail and started to investigate what I could do with it. The Conductive Ink Pen essentially allows …
Earlier this week I got a conductive ink pen for a competition that I am currently entered in. I had a bit of a muck around with what I could do with it and the first test that I tried was a capacitive sensing control. The control is a simple slider that drive an LED’s …
