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CRC Onging Character Design Sketching

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CRC Character Design: Expressions & A Pose

Here are some sketches of facial expressions and poses from the photographs of Christopher.  Seeing how he’ll need to move once he’s animated will be important.  So I’ll do a lot of this before we start to sculpt digitally.  This is where its really helpful that CRC was such a great actor!

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Ongoing CRC Character Design

Here are some more sketches exploring and experimenting with broad forms and volumes for CRC. Maybe you’ll also recognize the Man With No Name. I’m keeping the creative searching I’m doing informed by Christopher so he can be seen in a virtual world the way he wants to be.

More drawings on the way. Over & Out
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Deep new information visualization from Daylife

My fellow Brainstormer, Eric (Dr. Kramp) just shared this interesting infovis, called Universe. Its a fantastically executed visual gestalt of news and information. It got a lot of depth to drill down into. I think I’ll have to dig around a lot.

Thanks Eric!

CRC: Character Study

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New Brainstormer: CRC - Christopher Coppola!

We just started creating out next Brainstormer character, CRC. Christopher Coppola came to our lab where we photographed him thoroughly from all sides and then snapped him doing a bit of acting. I’ll use these photos for reference when I do his character design. But it was outstanding to have a chance to draw him in person to get the character design process started. He’s posted videos of our character brainstorm session on his blog.

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Christopher is a perfect prototype Brainstormer. He’s the creator of the PAHfest. PAH stands for Project Accessible Hollywood and its mission is to help people tell stories about their communities and share those stories. He’s dedicated to helping people share their ideas and he’s full of great ideas himself.

Stay tuned to this blog and this category (CRC) for more on the creation of his videogame character!

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NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge - A whole show on Ideas!

Wow! A whole radio show about ideas! Outstanding!

Listen Now

   
 

Fidgt: A visualization of your personal social networks

This visualization has excellent, artis tic graphic finesse. Its full of inventive visual language elements to communicate complex social networks.

http://www.fidgt.com/visualize

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This video shows Fidgt in action. View Movie

Excellent Visualization of an Email Inbox

This is a great example of creating a visual language (in this case a language made of microbes) to describe information. This type of experimentation can begin to unearth and discover all manner of information visualization possibilities.

http://carohorn.de/anymails/

TIME TRAVEL

Important Article: Second Earth

Hi Guys,
This article is heavily relevant to Brainstormer and a good exploration of MMO’s meeting information.

You need to sign in to read this.  But I’d pick up a print copy.  There are other good articles in this issue.

https://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18888&ch=infotech
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