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Music Reactive Brushes

November 26, 2015November 26, 2016 drew

I created a set of music reactive brushes for Tilt Brush, and put together this launch trailer to go along…

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Tilt Brush Launch Trailer

November 26, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

I had an opportunity to collaborate with the Tilt Brush team, MPC & MssngPeces on this Tilt Brush Launch Trailer….

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Plasma Ball HMD + Leap

June 11, 2014July 19, 2015 drew

The Plasma Ball Prototype explores skeleton tracked hand interactions in VR and AR.

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We’ve been acquired by Google!

April 26, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

Exciting times. http://www.roadtovr.com/google-acquires-tilt-brush-developer-and-thrive-audio-to-add-to-vr-team/ https://developers.googleblog.com/2015/04/works-with-google-cardboard-creativity.html

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Doodle

April 20, 2014April 20, 2016 drew

Haven’t been in a class for a long time. Time to doodle it up.

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Tilt Brush

April 12, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

Tilt Brush is a VR Painting app built for Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and the HTC Vive.

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Shooting Gallery | Leap Motion Prototype

April 11, 2014July 19, 2015 drew
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Kinect V2 | Oculus | Depth Mirror

April 1, 2014July 19, 2015 drew

Combining an Oculus and a prototype Kinect V2.

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Leap Prototype: The King’s Hand

April 1, 2014July 19, 2015 drew
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Area Lights

March 31, 2014July 19, 2015 drew
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Kinect2 | Oculus | Depth Mirror | Particles

March 31, 2014July 19, 2015 drew
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Oculus | Kinect V2 | Audio Visualizer Test

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 drew
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Kinect V2 | Oculus | Point Cloud Interactions and Energy Discs

March 30, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

A recent experiment combining point cloud and skeletal data from the Kinect 2 with Oculus.

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Visual Effects Artist Roundtable Notes

March 29, 2014March 24, 2016 drew

Here are all of my notes from the Visual Effects Artist Roundtable sessions at GDC.

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Skillman & Hackett Prototypes (Summer 2014)

March 11, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

This is a collection of work from Summer 2014.

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City Visualizer HMD + Leap

March 11, 2014November 26, 2016 drew

Prototype of Human Computer Interaction for map viewing in Virtual Reality.

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My Alien Buddy

December 1, 2013July 19, 2015 drew
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Autonomous

December 1, 2013July 19, 2015 drew
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Little Pink Best Buds

November 1, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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People Sketches

October 20, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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World’s Best Dad

October 19, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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In the Studio

October 19, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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Dropchord Released!

October 19, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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Dropchord

July 1, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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Normal Mode Analysis of the Clathrin Cage and other Semi-Rigid Systems

April 1, 2013July 20, 2015 drew
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Weightless

March 31, 2013July 20, 2015 drew

Rough concept for a game idea.

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Autonomous Prototype

December 14, 2012July 20, 2015 drew
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Visual Effects Artist Roundtable at GDC 2013

December 14, 2012July 20, 2015 drew
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Kinect Party Shipping Tuesday Dec. 18th

December 14, 2012July 20, 2015 drew
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Kinect Party

December 1, 2012July 20, 2015 drew

One of my absolute favorite projects – Kinect Party!  I had the enormous privilege of being Project Lead, as well…

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Galaxy Formation

October 22, 2012 drew

I took a lot of artistic liberties with this, so I wouldn’t say it’s scientifically accurate in any respect.  I…

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Direct X 11 + Unity

October 22, 2012July 20, 2015 drew

Got a new graphics card a couple weeks ago and wanted to put it through its paces.  I was pleased…

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“Dead Balls” is on the app store!

April 22, 2012 drew

Dead Balls is the result of the 48 hour “molyjam”, in which Lee Petty, Patrick Conner, Bill Gahr, Alex Vaughan,…

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Spaceship of the Imagination : Earth Day Remix

April 19, 2012March 31, 2014 drew

This is a music visualization I made for a song from our (currently unnamed) band. The track was from a…

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Experiments in Processing – Fire

March 31, 2012March 31, 2014 drew

More Fire! A processing experiment that combines Memo Akten’s awesome MSAFluid library with a bunch of particles and OpenGL render…

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Meeting sketch by Lee Petty

February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 drew

This is a pretty hilarious caricature Lee did of me in the meeting this morning. He nailed how grumpy this…

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Real-Time VFX in your Living Room

February 26, 2012 drew

This year I’m submitting a talk to Siggraph titled “Real-VFX in your Living Room”. It explores what happens when you…

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“Super I Am 8 Bit” Gallery Exhibition

February 26, 2012July 20, 2015 drew

Below are some pics and video of the Super I Am 8 Bit Gallery Show where I installed a series of…

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Happy Action Theater GIFs

February 26, 2012March 31, 2014 drew

A couple animated gifs from the night we took our game Happy Action Theater across the street to Bar Basic….

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Embedding Processing Sketches – The Verdict

February 25, 2012February 26, 2012 drew

Java Applets feel outdated and archaic, especially with the explosion of powerful javascript rendering libraries like three.js. However the upload…

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