Category: AR Module

In this project we were tasked to create an AR Panel experience for our own theme. My team chose to do Seattle Parks, my partner covered Volunteer Park and I went for Cal Anderson Park. My partner finished his before me, so I asked him to send over his PSD files to color match and get the sizing down. Once I opened his files I sat there trying to figure out what I wanted to do different to make the experience tailored to Cal Anderson. It hit me pretty quick, I decided to take the graffiti art all around the park and let that inspire my work. So instead of deleting all of my partners content, I kept all of his work in the background and graffiti’d and placed “posters” over his work. This route took way too long but I was too far in to turn back at any point and I am very happy with how it turned out.

In this assignment we had to complete a UX/UI Review of an AR App. I approached this as a simple user and what I enjoyed and did not enjoy about the app. The app I have chosen is ARvid, which is available on Android and iOS. My overall experience was positive, a few key things that I believe could be changed including the overall aesthetic of the design. However it is a rather fun experience using this app and has the reviews to back it up.

In this project I decided to go with a space theme, started out with a star and used the tap trigger. On tap the star scales down to nothing while the astronaut, earth, sun and satellite all scale up into the frame. The sun, earth, and satellite are all tap triggers to begin their animation while the astronaut is a proximity enter trigger.

My creative process for this specific project was quite simple. As soon as the presentation and discussion ended for this project I knew exactly what piece I wanted to use. This is a project I made a few weeks ago of my partner in drag, they sent me several pictures and I immediately got my creative juices flowing. The theme of this project was then named Drive and Drag, a play on the Drive In Drag shows during the pandemic and the fact that the subject is in drag while being driven around. The original pictures were all relatively dark and one or two was slightly blurry already so I took that and enhanced both of those things. I wanted to create motion already with the still image I created so when we were making animated posters it only made sense to use this project and bring it to life. The process for me creating movement was with a transparent layer of another image of them in drag, slightly blurred out, and shifted in front of their face so the original skin was peeking through. Because of that I decided the best route for making this GIF would be to utilize the same idea and add another floating layer of them and apple the zigzag tool while also lowering the opacity slowly.

To make the GIF, I used Photoshop, created a new layer for each new frame and created the gif using the timeline window.