Lead Pre-Production

Hello to all who are following our project! My name is Jakob Hahn and I am a Project Lead and Filter developer for the “Xtended Realitrees” Project! To kind of catch you up to speed on what I’ve been working on, it's been a mix of managing the other project teams along with doing my own filter tests and prototypes. When it comes to managing teams, I’ve been doing my best to consistently check in with each project to see where they're at and if they need any additional help. I’ve been going on tree walks with the AR Book team to scout out trees to highlight, checking in with the 3D team and giving feedback, and discussing with the filter team about what direction to go in. Though I don’t personally view myself as a great manager, I’ll keep trying my best to help this project move along smoothly!

Speaking of filters this week, the week of Thursday March 2nd, I’ve been doing some small experiments with TikTok’s own filter creating app EffectHouse! I’ve just been toying around with their different features and getting accustomed to the software itself. This screenshot is of some of the first tests I did with their gesture detection and how well 3D models and animations work in the program. I used a model from a previous project to test with and was even able to set up some facial expression detection. Even though it was simple, smiling made the model appear and track on my head! Though I don’t think we’ll be using gesture detection or expression detection in our final products, it was fun to experiment with and helped me get used to their visual scripting interface.