Exercise 1: Mood Mix
For Exercise 1, I wanted to include a playful mood with animals. The videos I selected were ones I've taken on my phone: a squirrel at a park in Rochester and a dolphin at a resort in Hawaii. I knew I wanted to include colors on both videos, so the Ramp operator was needed in TouchDesigner. The overall network flow intended was as follows: Movie File → Ramp → Text → Cross for both videos. Once the videos with text and colors met at the Cross operator, that's when its value would be controlled by a slider. Aesthetic-wise, I chose a blue color to represent the ocean for the Dolphin, and a green color for the grass in the Squirrel video. I swapped those colors for the text to make it stand out - green for Dolphin and blue for Squirrel. Interaction-wise, I chose a slider because it's quite simple to manually control exactly how far you'd like to go between the videos. The Cross value reads the value of the slider with a Python expression: op('slider1').par.value0...