Thinking through the work.

Discover the behind-the-scenes making of SNTIENT —a post-apocalyptic universe where sentient robots redefine fashion, art, and identity in a bold collision of technology and creativity.

The group lens concept is situated between retail narrative and public art, transitional space and captive audience, fact and emotion. Currently lenses reflect a general shift from the depiction as evidence to realistic synthesis.

This part of the suite looks at examples for tools supporting lens based work. How do narrative and abstraction shape techniques? Who is the addressee and how does this information shape interactions?

Having introduced lens and canvas spaces in part one, let's review our event and entertainment work in light of these concepts.

Time to rethink live entertainment. We can create better, more immersive shows by renewing our perspective, examining the wider entertainment field, questioning our motivations, and spectators’ ways of seeing.

Creating interactive avatars with Unreal Engine, Deep Fake technology, AI Voice generation, a holobox, and ChatGPT.

We were recently invited by fashion focused social media platform Storey to collaborate on a NFT art series that generates unique and beautiful artworks based on user submitted images.

This article examines the features, benefits and challenges in producing mixed reality for live & recorded events.

For content production at dandelion + burdock we have recently transitioned to using game engines such as Unreal and Unity that excel at world building and have broad resource pools. However there are other tools that are more suited for a faster turnaround and integration within a typical live performance situation.

The advent of new and emerging technology offers exciting opportunities to alter the way that the fashion industry is making, showcasing and retailing products to this captive audience.

Many people are rethinking what the future of live events and brand experience might hold in a post-covid society. dandelion + burdock has been predicting how the industry might change and how best we can react.

In order to improve our own content workflow and gain experience with the hardware in delivering 10bit content we created and tested a 10bit motion graphics reel.

This is a companion article in which we explore the viability of creating 10bit content. We researched and devised test content to determine which codec will bring us the best visual result, at the fastest render time, allow for server side compositing, and not instantly fill up very valuable media server storage space​​.

Previz is software that we built to enable teams to plan, collaborate and preview productions in an interactive 3D environment, on any web connected devices.

Utilizing Houdini’s procedural workflows to create flexible terrains for projection mapping events.

We utilise web technology to build applications for use in public spaces. To lock the experience to the tablet we need to put Chrome into kiosk mode.

Watchout can be controlled by an external source. This outline runs you through the basics of setting up the connection.