Kunshan University - Multimedia workshop - Taïwan 2023

24 hours multimedia class with 10-15 design students from the Visual Communication and Design department.

This Workshop focus on creative artworks using augmented reality tools. It allows students to:

Explore the new writing potentialities offer by AR technology, understand its technical limit.
Create a thoughtful relationship between a design practice (painting, traditional print or sculpture/object...) and a digital layer (video/3d/sound...).
Design a distribuable AR experience visible by any average smartphone on the market.
Learn the ZapWorks Studio editor tool for designing creative AR/XR projects.

Assignment:

Create an AR experience for a communication work (ex: an augmented name card, augmented portfolio book, augmented poster, augmented object or pure art experimentation).
The experience needs to be triggered by a Zapcode through an App and by a QRCode without an app.
The experience should be easily readable with an average mobile phone (Please care about mobile's hardware display limitation and the average mobile internet speed).

Program:

day

02/05

04/05

09/05

11/05

Class exercices

- Introduction

- Display contents

- Tracking types

- Organisation in space

- Hierarchy and Group

- Actions

- States and animation

- Masking

- Movie and sound

- Scripting

- Publishing

day	16/05	18/05	20/05	23/05
Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project	Personal Project

Class exercises :

- Exercises 02/05 - Introduction to tracking (sources files)

Tutorial for review:

1 / Software Interface, Navigating the UI

2 / Create a Target Image for Image Tracking

3 / Create a Ground placement for World Tracking

4 / Use of 3d Models

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- Exercises - 04/05 - Organisation in space (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercise] Book Silhouette.zip

Tutorial for review:

1 / Screen Coordinate system for UI

2 / Action Button for simple interactivity

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- Exercises - 09/05 - Controller and states for animation (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercice] 3d book portfolio.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Controllers and states for animation

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- Exercises - 11/05 - Mask and interactivity (sources files)

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercice] hole in the box mask.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Masking objects to create a "hole effect"

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- Exercises - 16/05 - Timeline animation and publishing (sources files)

Example "bouncing ball" and timeline: Timeline animation.zip

Final exercise as Zapworks Studio Project: [Exercise] Phoenix flying bird with mask.zip

Tutorial for review:

1/ Previewing and publishing

2/ Masking objects to create a "hole effect"

1/ Adding a script

2/ Control states with a script

"Subsymbols", Custom objects developed for the workshop, that you can add in your projects:

- Media player : can read video as .mp4, use alpha channel, play sound control by "states".

- Particles: create a falling particle

- Motion Player: a frame by frame animation player ("stopmotion") using .png or .jpeg files

- ...

Examples to scan with a smartphone

AR communication made with ZapWorks Studio for branding:

Creative AR video Example in art

Onlybots - artificial intelligent pets in AR (tamagotchi)

Check short stories

French creative studio

Zapworks Studio : The AR / XR creative tool by ZapWorks

Zapworks Studio helps you to design a full AR experience, mixing images, video animation, animated 3d models and sound. Publish your AR experience using Zappar App on iOS and Android or directly on the web without any app!

To start the workshop:

1 - Create a personal “Hobby Account” clicking here, verify your email.