Sheng Hao Wang

Team Members

Anna Goodwin – Project Manager/Lighting

Robyn Roach – Look Dev/Compositing

Danci Shen – Look Dev/Virtual production

Bua Kanjanapongporn – Look Dev/ Lighting

Sheng Hao Wang – Real Time Pipeline/Lighting

1/11

Hello, this is the first week of the SCAD x CATT x Harbor x ETC blog!

Our team begins by brainstorming project ideas that meet the collaboration requirements. Each member suggests ideas for a tech product to feature in the commercial. We soon decide on a concept: combining Gentle Monster, a fashion eyewear brand, with AI-powered smart glasses.

Research

Once the team narrows down the tech product for the commercial, Anna delegates individual tasks to each team member in order to complete the previs for the pitch in the second week. And I was assigned to help with research on integrating AI glasses with Gentle Monster glasses.

I began the research by examining the major components of AI glasses, including the camera, microphone, speaker, and interactive functions, and looking into possible ways of adding those components to the sleek frame of Gentle Monster glasses.

While looking for ways to combine the glasses, I used Google’s Gemini AI to generate possible outcomes, and it yielded interesting results.

Weekend Team Meeting/Work Session

On the weekend meet-ups, we went over the materials each team member produced and reviewed the inspirations the team found. In the meeting, we gradually combined Bua’s storyboard, Anna’s mood board, and inspiration images/videos into our previs storyboard, and then set up the scenes corresponding to each shot in Unreal Engine. While setting up shots in Unreal Engine, I was tasked with procuring and setting up HDRI in Unreal, identifying the assets needed for the previs environment, and helping with Unreal rendering.