Brandi Rourk
Brandi Rourk
Rougarou
environment
This environment is being designed for a 4D immersive film to be a part of a permanet exhibit at the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum in Houma Louisiana.
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For this project I designed an environment in Unreal Engine that has 3 coastal Louisiana Environments (Swamp, Marsh, and Bayou).Â
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Because the scene will be projected across 3 walls I had to create 3 scenes that can be aligned seamlessly when projected.Â
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Along with designing the envionment, I was tasked with animating weather events and time changes. Triggering Lightning strikes and floods, Timing heavy winds and rain, and simple day to night shifts were all things I needed to plan out across 3 separate renders.
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Phase 01: Planning
My first step for a project of this size was to figure out how I was going to go about getting the 3 separate walls. I wanted to avoid having a large amount of cameras and tried to render one really wide shot. But the resolution was too much for my computer to handle. So I did end up having to have 3 cameras per scene.
Phase 02: Design
After I figured out my workflow, I went in and started to build the environment. I built out 3 main areas - a marsh, a bayou, and a swamp linnearly aligned with eachother for walking transitions.Â
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During this phase I noted what parameters I could key in a sequence and which ones I would need to rely on cuts for.
Phase 03: Render
I had to create 3 identical sequences for each camera I needed to render.Â
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I rendered everything out in image sequences due to the length of the sections, and converted them to movie files in Davinci Resolve.
Phase 04: Premier
Coming Soon.
Unreal Engine
Primary node-based visual programming environment for real-time interactive playback.
Davinci Resolve
Femto Mega is a programmable multi-mode Depth and RGB camera with real-time streaming of processed images over Ethernet or USB connections.