Just in a few hours, I am going to participate in the graduation ceremony for our Class 2021 cohort. I worked with a good portion of them extensively in their first year of school in virtual reality and playful experience design. I wanted to make something to remember them by. It is purely impulsive and based on no research or data. It is very last minute, but I decided to celebrate this moment with a new exit act.
After we moved the learning online after the pandemic last year, I have been experiment with different online identities. From animated characters with face tracking to cosmetic filters, it was an unexpected adventure into a world of digital tools that I didn’t care much for. During those experiments, I created a thing called exit acts – exit zoom meetings with style. I created one for taking off in a Gundam RX-78 and another one for flying away with Spike’s Swordfish II from Cowboy Bebop. Jamming it out with an EVA – 3 from Neo Genesis Evangelion seems like a reasonable next project.
My teaching assistant, Sharon, told me that the overall visual scheme of their thesis website was inspired by the color scheme of the animation -Evangelion. Time to collect some assets and put together a theme. I want to use a cityscape silhouette to create a high contrast between foreground and background similar to the technique used in some of the Fortnite banners.
Evangelion Unit 1:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/evangelion-unit-01-49c7a77272c84154a711d7cfd5cb47f4
Evangelion – Entry Plug(with sound):
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/evangelion-entry-plugwith-sound-3e4245a5f40b45eca02dab55e6b47a93
Here is the end result: