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My new installation; Protocol is up and running at

My new installation; Protocol is up and running at Mänttän @kuvataideviikot . The exhibition called ‘To Err is Human’ opens today!

Protocol is an installation in which two computers are entangled in an endless conversation transferring self generated data back and forth. Visitors can enter this conversation, disturbing the data flow and in doing so create new possibilities.

I have worked on this artwork for a very long time. So many things are fully custom made, from the steel framing mechanism to the tiny circuit boards that control the whole thing. Not to mention the many lines of code that control all the logic running on 4 seperate microcontrollers. I am very happy and honored that it is currently installed at Finlands biggest contemporary art summer exhibition and could not have imagined I would be making this artwork when I shifted to making interactive/media art some 2,5 years ago. I have to thank @mnstri and ‘mechatronics Janne’ a lot for their support while building this. And ofcourse @ar_ruth for inviting me to the exhibition!

Go and see it if you can! It will be in Mänttä for approximately 2,5 months starting today.

#kuvataideviikot #kuvataideviikot2021 #digitalart #mediaart #computerart #interactiveart #lightart #raspberrypi #teensy @aaltouniversity @aaltomedialab

Watched Harry Potter again last week 🧙🏻‍♂️makes you come up with magical stones trapped in gyroscopes. Did a little RBD sim with glowing things inside the glass-stone. Then some compositing adjustments in Nuke, for that nice orange/teal look. Maybe not the philosophers stone but who knows 🧙🏻‍♂️🙆‍♂️🔥 was nice doing some Houdini again after working mostly in Unity the last few months. #houdini #houdinifx #sidefxhoudini #vray #vrayrender #nuke #nukecompositing #3danimation #mediaart #digitalart #harrypotter

Somehow the dynamics of hair are always super sati

Somehow the dynamics of hair are always super satisfying to watch. Did a bit of clumping and frizzling based on noise masks, so really looks like some kind of thick wool now 🐑 I think this is my favorite one out of the three dancing people I made. 🧙🏻‍♂️🙆‍♂️🔥 on to the next thing ✌️#houdini #houdinifx #3danimation #animation #digitalart #vray #vrayrender #mocap #motioncapture #majorlazer

Told you there would be more dancing here 💃🕺

Told you there would be more dancing here 💃🕺could be interesting if there would be sound for this one... I imagine they would be little wooden balls hitting each other all the time, but hey, its all fake so who am I to decide 🙆‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️#houdini #houdinifx #3danimation #animation #motioncapture #mocap #digitalart #vray #vrayrender

Had to do the mandatory dancing people excersice i

Had to do the mandatory dancing people excersice in #houdini inspired by the well known music video. Actually made these a year ago and didn’t think they were nice enough. Fixed the colors and added motion captured camera’s this week and thought they were worth the render time 🧙🏻‍♂️🙆‍♂️👌 made three different ones, so expect some more dancing in the coming days. #houdini #houdinifx #3danimation #animation #digitalart #motioncapture #mocap #majorlazer #vray #vrayrender

Made a little hair creature 🦑 took me some time

Made a little hair creature 🦑 took me some time as the walking cycle is fully procedural, the system just takes a curve and figures out by itself how to do the correct foot placement. This one has seven limbs, but it can in theory support many more! Build up of SOPs for the placement, then trace those with Particle sim. Wire sim -> softbody sim -> hair sim - loose hair sim. Then composited in Nuke, quite a ride to get to this 🧙🏻‍♂️🔥🙆‍♂️
#houdini #houdinifx #sidefx #sidefxhoudini #megascans #nukecompositing #foundrynuke #digitalart #mediaart #codeart #3danimation #procedural #proceduralart

Proud to announce that our location-based storytel

Proud to announce that our location-based storytelling app Polku has won the second price in the Think Ink competition by @mediasaatio . We have been working on this prototype for the last couple months together with @johannalummeillustrator @annapuur @randompekka and this allows us to continue development 🔥🙆‍♂️ Hopefully we’ll soon have you all experience ánd create location-based stories everywhere!
#locationbased #storytelling #aaltouniversity #aaltomedialab

Went all-out Star Wars for this one! Took quite so

Went all-out Star Wars for this one! Took quite some iterations to get the smoke and dust to look right. Took it into Nuke to add some background rocks, sky, add lens characteristics and glow. And ofcourse many thanks to Steven Knipping for his excellent explanations on how to go about creating procedural gun-shot explosions. 🧙🏻‍♂️🔥🙆‍♂️ #houdini #houdinifx #sidefx #sidefxhoudini #3danimation #proceduralart #mediaart #digitalart #starwars #appliedhoudini #megascans

Another test I never posted 🙆‍♂️ trying o

Another test I never posted 🙆‍♂️ trying out some smoke deformation driven by points. Very Harry Potter style 🧙🏻‍♂️🔥👌
#sidefx #sidefxhoudini #houdinifx #digitalart #mediaart #3danimation #proceduralart

Another test when I was testing out for-loops in H

Another test when I was testing out for-loops in Houdini. Somehow took some playing around to get it even though code-based for-loops are second nature 🧐. Little procedural setup dividing blocks with vex and feeding them back. #sidefxhoudini #houdini #houdinifx #mediaart #digitalart #3danimation #procedural #proceduralart

Someone told me that I should post more of my test

Someone told me that I should post more of my tests and try-outs. I’m making things all the time but only share a few that are up to my own judgement. So hereby, a test from around halloween 2019! 💀🔥🙆‍♂️🙅‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️#sidefx #sidefxhoudini #houdini #houdinifx #3danimation #mediaart #digitalart

I’ve been spending some more time on composition

I’ve been spending some more time on composition, lighting and materials. Takes some effort to make things feel ‘real’ when everything is fake. 🧙🏻‍♂️🙅‍♂️🔥 #sidefxhoudini #houdinifx #3danimation #digitalart #mediaart

Made some sort of candy jellyfish-thing 🐙. Move

Made some sort of candy jellyfish-thing 🐙. Movement driven by a simple particle system, topped off with a hair-sim. The simple constraints for keeping it in a bounding box can sometimes really make it feel alive as it turns 🐙🦑🧙🏻‍♂️#sidefxhoudini #houdinifx #3danimation #digitalart #mediaart

Doing some testing with volumes. These are actuall

Doing some testing with volumes. These are actually three simulations of the exact same settings but different voxel counts. 150 -> 300 -> 600 voxels across. Quite interesting to see how much it affects the look. At this scale & distance I probably like the 300 voxel one the most 🙆‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️ #sidefxhoudini #digitalart #3danimation #procedural

Coding some colorful shaders again 🧙🏻‍♂️🙆‍♂️ combining worley & value noise fragment shaders. Feeding in two colored value noises to multiply with the highs and lows of the worley. Definitely interesting result. Added a little layer-breakdown for those who are interested 🔥#shaders #glsl #openframeworks #digitalart #opengl #mediaart

More prototyping PCBs! This is an active adapter m

More prototyping PCBs! This is an active adapter mounted on a Raspberry Pi 4 that allows me to drive the 24 led modules I have with just one Raspberry Pi. Has been quite some deepdive to figure out how to correctly drive the 49152 pixels in the module but i’m getting there. 🧙🏻‍♂️🔥#raspberrypi #kuvataideviikot #prototype #electronics #mediaart

I’ve been designing some PCBs to accommodate the

I’ve been designing some PCBs to accommodate the different hardware I need to connect for my next installation which will be premiered at @kuvataideviikot. This one holds a Teensy 4.0, SGTL5000, XBee module and has FTDI breakouts and audio jacks. Prototyping is going well so far. 🧙🏻‍♂️👌 #teensy #kuvataideviikot #prototype #electronics #microcontroller #mediaart

I’ve been diving into pyro effects lately, so he

I’ve been diving into pyro effects lately, so here is a little test setup. Takes quite some time to get the hang of realistic fire shading but definitely getting there 🔥probably the worst hose to use in case of fire though 🧙🏻‍♂️🙆‍♂️ #sidefxhoudini #digitalart #3danimation #procedural

Needed some more colors again 🔥 Experimenting w

Needed some more colors again 🔥 Experimenting with spring constraints and RBD de-intersection by growing the objects when starting the simulation. Seems to work very well 🧙🏻‍♂️ #houdini #sidefxhoudini #mediaart #digitalart #3danimation

Lidar studies - Tenaya Canyon, California - 37.744

Lidar studies - Tenaya Canyon, California - 37.7441, -119.5537
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#opentopography #opendata #sidefxhoudini #pointcloud #mediaart #digitalart