Imagine a new world, then build it. In this online workshop, explore creative frontiers by animating your own AR experience. Transform your vision and memories of place, from designing virtual worlds in Spark AR, creating 3D assets in Blender, and incorporating open-source 3D models from the web. By the end of this workshop, you'll be ready to deploy your own animated AR experience and share them with the world.

Workshop Logistics
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 15 & 16, 2020
Time: 11am-2pm PST
Cost: $180
Experience Level: Basic 3D modelling experience
Requirements:
•PC/Mac with latest version of Spark AR installed and Blender 2.82a (or older)
•Spark AR Play app on Iphone/Android

Workshop Outline
We’ll primarily be using Unity 3D, Illustrator Adobe Photoshop with a sprites-sheet generator plug in:
• Overview of interactive, animated objects and effects in augmented reality
• Intro to Spark AR's workspace & importing assets
• Creating unique spatial qualities that can integrate with real world contexts in Spark AR
• Using the Spark AR play app to test filters
• Blender 3D modeling and texturing basics to create models
• Sourcing royalty free 2D sprite-sheets and 3D models
• Deploying projects onto social media or share with your community privately


Online Workshop

This online workshop will be held as a 6 hour workshop over two days via video webinar. We will have an online community chat to share your questions during and beyond the workshop. The workshop will be recorded, archived and shared with participants for a limited time. Please contact us if you have any additional questions at patch@grayarea.org.