Team Cutting Edge

We are a team of students from @cmuetc who are exploring the use of cuts and transitions in the VR space for better cinematic storytelling purposes

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

hi twitter friends, it's been a very busy week for team cutting edge!! we've compiled together a bunch of documentation videos covering the cuts and transitions we've made this semester, from inception to final iteration.

linking them in the replies

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

hi twitter friends! please vote for team cutting edge's sxsw panel proposal "designing interactive cuts for VR" @ SXSW PanelPicker®. we appreciate all the support we can get!! https://t.co/7tICLyai1M

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

reaper is much, much, much better than audition. v powerful w/r/t automation of stems both pre and post fx and has a UI that balances simplicity with ease of use in a way that other daws lack imo.

- liam

[Paolo Pedercini 🥶 @molleindustria]

Every year, more and more CMU art students independently adopt @Adobe alternatives. I'm personally switching to Affinity and DaVinci. Hopefully soon we'll be able to drop CC as default toolset in our school and stop training lifetime renters.

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

and finally, our experiments with montage editing and hard "quick cuts" in VR proved really valuable to us for the rest of the project. find out what happened when we brought hard jump cuts to VR here: https://t.co/b1eIvOzGQo

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

hi twitter friends, it's been a very busy week for team cutting edge!! we've compiled together a bunch of documentation videos covering the cuts and transitions we've made this semester, from inception to final iteration.

linking them in the replies

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

we were really happy with our experimentation with match cuts (or rather, match on action and object cuts) for our final product!! see how we got them to work in VR here:
https://t.co/SPE45hIksB

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Daniel Birnbaum was a curator at the top of his game, working with some of the art world's most prestigious institutions. So why did he leave all that behind to work with VR, a technology still in its infancy? https://t.co/eJKM4tPEXX

[̷y̷u̷i̷ not here @yuiwei]

I realised I didn't post our final character yet so here she is!!!! Our girl!!!!!! She's so cute!!!!!!!! #zbrush #substancepainter #unity3d

[̷y̷u̷i̷ not here @yuiwei]

sleep deprivation

[Meta VR @MetaVR_Official]

Oculus at @Tribeca: A Quartet of VR for Good Projects, Plus Narrative Innovations from Fable Studio and @felixandpaul // https://t.co/iXeokuz9P4

[̷y̷u̷i̷ not here @yuiwei]

it's crunch time for team @aaaandcut!!!! here's the highpoly untextured vs in-game lowpoly semi-textured (i haven't touched the clothes yet). big difference??

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

hi twitter friends, we here at team cutting edge have cooked up a brief trailer to explain what exactly we've been doing these last couple months
https://t.co/WO8SzNdpuF

[̷y̷u̷i̷ not here @yuiwei]

look mom i'm using all my screens and none of them are netflix!!!

[̷y̷u̷i̷ not here @yuiwei]

today's progress for @aaaandcut got me to this rough blocking for our other character too

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

and for our last transition option for this particular interaction, we've created what we call a "spreading" transition

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

this is an early prototype of a VR transition we've made that uses gaze to dissolve from one scene to the next

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

we're trying out a few other kinds of transitions with this interaction, which people will be able to play around with with our final set of technical tools (this one's a wipe!!)

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

and while we're at it, here's a brief plug of our halves presentation, which covers most of our progress this semester thus far: https://t.co/wIkJb5PP7e

[Team Cutting Edge @aaaandcut]

hello twitter! we here on team cutting edge are going to try this new thing called a SocialMediaPresence™ and show some of our current progress on our project, a 3-5 minute interactive, animated experience for VR that explores the use of transitions in VR