This week's experiment task was to choose 3-5 different movements of your own body and animate them using simple forms. I chose "Shiver", "Shrink" and "Startle". I set up a small scene in Unity, wrote a script to procedurally generate some cubes and then assigned a mood to each cube which would trigger a corresponding animation in the player agent.
Video 1: Setting up the procedural generation.
Video 2: Animations and triggers. Had a strange problem with the "Startle" animation which would break the navagent component so I had to switch it off.
Video 3: Shrink and shiver.
This experiment gave me some ideas about making a central mood controller which could adjust lighting, audio, camera control, and other elements depending on the mood conveyed by the procedurally generated scene.
By Nick Margerison
Email Nick Margerison
Published On: 16/08/2019