Invisible Goddess
AR
2023
Invisible Goddess is an AR Project in which I try to bring my imagination into reality.
My inspiration comes from the Chinese Mythology of Tudigong (Chinese: 土地公; lit. 'Lord of the Land'), who is a kind of Chinese spiritual guardian of a specific location. The definitive characteristic of Tudigongs is that they are limited to their specific geographical locations. The Tudigong of one location is not the Tudigong of another location.
Thus, I weirdly believe that each place has its own spiritual guardian that protects the place and performs its duty on site. Using AR to visualize those invisible goddesses, I hope my audience enjoys seeing and interacting with these goddesses.
Technically, I generated the location mesh of each place through a lidar scan and matched the models and animation accordingly.
//Location 01: Artichoke Pizza
Address: 111 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012
Artichoke Pizza is my favorite pizza shop in NYC. Their Crab Pizza is awesome… I guess maybe there is a certain kind of goddess that blesses this shop, ensuring all the pizza served to consumers is fresh and delicious.
//Location 02: DPI Computer Lab
Address: 721 Broadway Room 803, New York, New York, 10003
803 computer lab in the photo department is where I spent most of my time over the past two years… Every time MAYA crashes, I doubt whether my luck is just way too bad… I hope there is a goddess that can bless my computer not crashing and my rendering goes faster.
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