Category: 3D Tech Projects
Various projects that I have worked on or created
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Digital Preservation: Promo 2024
Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. My project was featured in a promo video to showcase RIT’s longstanding relationship with the Genesee Country Village and Museum, which then gave me room to request an edit of the clip to help share my idea with more potential partners and funders (fingers crossed). Watch…
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GDC and Beyond!
What it felt like to come out of my COVID-isolation cave to speak at the biggest Game Conference in the world!
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The SHED Game Walkthrough Results and Feedback
A short video of the first draft. This was the export that was play-tested by students of the Museum Sciences program (MUSE360), thanks to the support of Dr. Samaya Nasr at RIT. Here, we learned that the students struggled with the speed of the navigation tools and wished they had the option to fly. From…
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Processing the SHED @ RIT
The special topics course was a success! Not only did my four students get highly involved in refining the process, but we were able to successfully export a few different samples of the game, ready to play and with a secondary level to show a few additional details preserved during our research. From our tests,…
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The Shed Game @ the Genesee Country Village and Museum: A Quick Summary
This is the shortest possible update of the pilot DIP process. A module of the super-epic Lahore Fort Project is the method I have suggested to use game creation workflows to digitally preserve buildings and sites. In October of 2022, I, and a team of animation students were given the opportunity to put this theory…
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Babur: The Orphan King
The founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur is most noted for his military prowess, stemming from the successes of his tactics as he defeated multiple opponents. What is not commonly known is that he was orphaned at a young age, and forced to grow up all too soon. Babur’s youth was controlled largely by the…
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More Naulakha!
I couldn’t resist rendering this little section out in a 360-viewable format.It literally took 20 minutes to render out each frame, but it’s wonderful to be able to save this progress in a way where you can pause the video and just use your mouse to “look around” the scene. Just think, once this is…
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Naulakha: Lahore Fort
Making this Fort is an ambitious project, especially since the buildings within span the tastes of four generations of Mughal Emperors. I don’t know what possessed me to try to make the Naulakha (or the Queen’s Pavillion). Maybe it’s because this is one of the smallest monuments in this Fort, or maybe because I had…
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Babur
The first of the Great Mughals, Babur was the orphan king who ascended to the throne as an 11-year old. In the decades that followed, he experienced great strife and turmoil, but his unbeatable spirit won the loyalties of armies and followers across Central and South Asia.
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Islamic Patterns
Despite not having concrete measurements to officially start builing elements of the Fort, I decided to go ahead and see if I could solve the (inevitable) issues of creating this monument before we get started. This has led me through quite a process! I build things, hate them and build again. I’ve had a similar…