Software: Unity | SideFx Houdini | Blender | Substance Painter | Substance Designer | Maxon Cinema 4D
Tasks: Modeling, Shaders,Texturing, LookDev, Pre-production, Prototype Animations
A Dynamic Installation at the Humboldt Forum
Wechselspiel is a generative digital artwork displayed in the atrium of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
The towering 17-meter-tall screen sculpture spans three floors, offering visitors an ever-changing visual experience.
The installation continuously evolves, ensuring that each viewing presents a unique perspective.
Simulating Natural Forces Over Time
The artwork’s title, Wechselspiel which roughly translates as ‘interplay’, consists of a real-time environment that runs a realistic simulation of how winds, tides, tectonics and forces of erosion interact over time.
The time variable is sped up one thousandfold, so visitors to the Humboldt Forum can view a simulation of the impact on the landscape over a few million years.
My Tasks on this Project involved creating a VR simulator. I was Rebuilding the Humboldt Forum and also creating a correct representation of the Display Tower with correct mapped UVs. We could stream media directly into the VR scene and check from every angle in VR. I also did some very early simulations and experimens with flow fields driving particles to get a first look and feel to check out the directions we were aiming for.
Previsualisations: