Turntable Complete and working Successfully

The turntable is working successfully and is following instructions without any problems or jittering.

Here is a video showing how the turntable is working:

The instructions for rotating the turntable and playing animations,etc are set to reset once the last video is played. The video above shows the whole loop twice.

But you can see from the video that the turntable is working fine, with no jittering and the animations are playing when told to do so.

The projector that I am using for this, is not the same as the one I have been working with. This was the only one available, but since it is smaller and lighter it worked fine.

Snow Animation

This is a Visual Video of the Snow animation:

This is the video of the animation that will be projected onto the wall:

Location Test Runs of Turntable

Here is a Video footage of the turntable set up at the location:

From this video you can see how the coding (stage two of special study) works.

Here is a long video footage of the whole installation:

As you can see that the turntable still jittered in certain places. I have brought the IC that will solve this issue. I am still waiting for it to be posted. But once I receive it, this problem shouldn't happen again.

Other than that, everything else is working successfully.

As you can see from the videos above that some of the animations are played at wrong co-ordinates. I set the co-ordinates for the animations at random to test the whole process. However, once I have the jittering sorted I will find the accurate positions for the animations and set them instead.

Animations Complete So Far...

These are the first few animation clips that will be projected onto the walls at the location.

They are simple, silhouette stop frame animations so they work well with the wallpaper cutouts that have been pasted onto the walls at the Location.

Loading Animations:

At the moment, you select a co-ordination, the turntable rotates to that position, stops, and plays the animation. I am thinking to change this to playing the animation at a starting co-ordination and continue playing animation till an ending co-ordination so the turntable rotates but the animation stays in its place.

These animations are finalised to that idea. So now all I have to do is work out the exact co-ordination of the start and end positions for the animations and add them into Processing.

This is my final animation of the sky-divers that will be projected onto the Summer Wall on top of the cutout of the waterfall.

This is the animation of the leaves falling off the tree on the Autumn wall. The animation will be projected from the tree and across the river.

This is the animation of the squirrel running along the Spring Wall, eating and then running off.

This is the animation of the bird that will be flying across Spring to the Summer wall before disappearing off the projection screen.

Squirrel eating animation

I have added to the squirrel animation, by getting it to stop running and eat an acorn and set off again.

Here is a preview of the animation.

Squirrel Animation

Before I create the full animation of the squirrel, I decided to create a really short animation of the squirrel running across the screen.

Here is the video clip of the animation I have created. To give a sense of visual to the animation, I placed it in-front of wallpaper cutouts were the animation would partially be placed on the wall. I have also added colour too the cutouts as I will be adding colour to the wallpaper cutouts.

I have created another quick short animation of the bird and squirrel together.

NOTE: Ignore the black artefacts left in the first cycle, these are due to Flash CS4 exporting and is a long going issue that a lot of Flash users encounter and there isn't a solution for it just yet. However, the every time I export the file, I get different artefacts in different places and sometimes more places than others. But for my piece, I am not so concerned with it as the artefacts will add to my urban installation as ink prints of what was seen during my display.

Squirrel Silhouette

The next animation I will be creating is the Squirrel running down a tree, picking up an acorn, eating it, and running back up the tree.

The image above is how the squirrel would look like.

Style Animations shown on wall

Below are two video clips, one of the silhouette animation (left) and other is the line-drawn animation (right). The animations are shown on an image of the previous wallpaper cutout experiment. I have created these two small animations to see which style technique will work best for the animation when being projected onto the walls.

From both video clips, I think that the silhouette animation works better with the wallpaper cutout. Therefore so far I think I will stick to the silhouette idea for the animations. I will try a few more short animations and see if they work well too.

Style idea for the short animations

Over the last few days, I have been working on one of the small animations that will be projected onto the wall. The animation I have been working on a simple animation of a bird flying from one side of the wall to the other.

When thinking of which style to do the animation in, I had to make sure that the style would work on the wallpaper cutouts that would be pasted onto the walls.

I first tried to do a simple line drawing animation.

Here are the frames I designed to create the animation. I chose to create the short animation in only 9 frames.

This is the animated version of the above frames.

I am unsure about this style technique and therefore thinking about the wallpaper cut outs on the walls, I thought about creating a silhouette animation and see if it works better than the line-drawn animation.

Here are the individual frames for the silhouette animation:

This image below shows the motion of all the frames and how it would form into a smooth animation.

Here is a video clip of the silhouette animation:

As you can see that this animation does work well. I will need to test this on the wallpaper cutout and see if that works well too.