CGA Heritage Lab | Visualization | 12.5 x 10 x 3 mt
Digital Sculpting: A Pedagogical Project of Aesthetics Education
數 字 雕 塑 : 美 感 教 育 教 學 計 畫
Topics In Digital Entertainment
Course Title
Assistant Arts Professor | Chen Wu-Wei
Chen Wu-Wei
Course Description
Dr. Chen integrates the concepts of 3D visualization, interactive info-motion design and digital sculpting into digital heritage contents development. Dr. Chen also hosts digital heritage forum at SIGGRAPH Asia
and invites experts of interdisciplinary areas (museum contes, architecture, urban planning, curation and aesthetics) for sharing. Chen's latest papers are accepted by CIPA 2017, DCH and Springer publication.
This course aims to explore the negation of sculpture in the philosophical discussions, and deploys the Phenomenological Aesthetics to re-exam the definition of sculpture in the digital era. Agenda includes the image, art, and reality; truth at work; Art and the aesthetics; Art and embodied perception; Artwork and aesthetic object. Students are required to read through selected readings of Continental philosophers (e.g., Husserl, Heidegger, Ingarden, Satre, Merleau-Ponty), and utilize their theoretical work to exam the final project.
In the studio hours, this course covers digital modeling/sculpting techniques including polygonal modeling, digital sculpting, and blend-shape facial animation. Methods include the basic topology of the head model, high-poly sculpting/projection texturing, and blend shapes animation. In the final project, students get to choose either lip-sync animation or conceptual piece utilizing the created head models. An overview of digital editing/compositing and sound design will also be introduced to assist with students’ final project at the end of the semester.