The Body Unbounded project was a collaborative project set up by my university, completed on the 10th January 2023. I collaborated with three other individuals a Games Art Student, Animation Student and a Film Making Student. What you will see below is my portion of the project, as well as a link to the Microsoft Sway Document containing all of our collective work.
I began by using DALL-E 2 which is an ai software developed by Open AI to which generates digital images from language descriptions. From the inputted words the AI created a variety of different images of what it believes astral projection/outer-body experiences look like. Some are far more abstract than others, however they where all be used as reference images to build on later ideas within the project.
Following the AI generation, I was then inspired to create a digital painting of what my experiences of astral projection have been like. I used Adobe photoshop to create a digital painting of what it might look like from an outside perspective, if it could be seen. It depicts the astral body ascending from the physical body into an alternate realm.
After discussing our final ideas, I decided to create a short animation within Maya which would be placed into a larger video. This animation is the final render of the scene I built in Maya of a physical body laying on a reflective table with a subtle body slowly rising out into the air. The non-physical body was given a transparent yet colourful texture to represent the soul/consciousness transcending the body. I decided to have a few still renders of the scene as well as the animation so you can get a better look at the two bodies themselves, without the added camera and object movements.
This video was our final outcome for this project I believe whilst quite usual and abstract, we managed to create a interesting and visually intriguing piece of video.
