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Wednesday 28 July, 2010

Teaching Virtual Design within a Virtual World

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division

Dr. Stephen L Guynup

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I teach Game Design for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division in an online multiuser 3D world Not for grant money

Not for publication (which is a pain)

It works and I enjoy it...

old news...

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

No dollhouses

No playing dress up

No SecondLife

... I‘ve got work to do

Magic Space, PowerPoint, and ShapeShifting...

old news...

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

I‘m teaching my online students to build content X3D/VRML – Multiuser Worlds, just export from 3DS Max or

Maya

Post the file online – and just by putting the Exit Reality or ABNet Server URL before your X3D/VRML file = a world - no coding!

So, what to build first - I do poetry...

new news...

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

Modeling, Textures, Animation, Interaction

No one wins (or loses) at poetry

There is no scoring, a bad poem can be a good poem

Flexible design, easy to shift and adapt

.... what‘s key...

Shows the relationship between Story and Space

Unconventional Narratives lead to Unconventional Spaces

Poetry is a great startin point

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

This very classroom and interactive methodology began with virtual poetry readings some 15 years ago

Value of Poetry

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

Following week I did a mash up of unfinished poems

Digital Trailer Park

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

;(Sorry No Pictures

Sweeping vistas and hillsides blended with huge tree, interactive objects, and my original space...

But one guy was missing...

Virtual Class // Dr Stephen L Guynup - sguynup@aii.edu

Happy students

They learned a lot

One got a job

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