Peer Reviews 15/9

GATHERING: SECOND LIFE


[1] SAM WONG : http://swon202.tumblr.com/


Sam's clients were:

• Engineer
• Illustrator
• Scientist
• Millionaire 

I enjoyed Sam's work because he designed an interesting office building that created a non boring space for the workers because they could move to the roof for peace and air to refresh they're ideas (an idea which came from Sam's last project). Sam focused a lot on reactive objects such changing lights through hallways and also a interactive set stairs that change as your avatar approaches. His choice of materials was mainly concrete because it related to the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences but more importantly the concrete was used to give an unfinished/ unrefined appearance.


Tips that Sam gave me were:

-Reactive things are the most important

-Remember to do scripting

[2] YUCONG SHAN :

Steven's concept came from an image of a buildings but the photo was taken with open shutter. This made the black and white image have a ghostly appeal with its distortion of moving objects. This image inspired Steven to create an interlocking office block where each room connected with some kind of space instead of just being a room with a door. The material selected were translucent glass that reflected the colours of the open shutter image making the building have a sense of movement.

[3] CHEN XINRAN:

Unfortunately Chen had to produce her office block on google sketch up because the Second life island had filled its capacity as all prims had been put to use. Chen decided to design her office as a dancing platform/studio because this is something she is passionate about. She included parts of her last project such as her lamp shade that had been cut to appear like flames. This was used alot in her digital building to let different amounts of light into the building.