Animation and Simulation with pen and ink drawings, 2020

With sounds from Saturn as recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

See a high-resolution mp4 here:
https://www.mirenarhee.art/christmas-on-saturn-with-sound-animation-unity-3d-by-mirena-rhee.mp4

Christmas on Saturn is an animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings inspired by Saturn, NASA and Christmas. Or Christmas in Space. And especially a little image a friend sent me from Denmark which triggered a fury of thoughts.

It is made with Hands and Solids pen and ink drawings animated and simulated in Unity3D, with sounds from Saturn. The drawings are from a book of drawings I recently completed called "Hands and Solids".

What is special about a simulation is that it's never the same unlike a movie, no two stills are ever the same. It's chaotic just like the universe, but there is an underlying order. Every time the simulation is run the images are different, no two stills are ever the same.

Cassini's final orbits revealed a powerful interaction between Saturn and the moon Enceladus. Scientists observed plasma waves moving in a circuit from planet to moon. The waves were converted into audio we can hear. [eerie, high-pitched sounds like wind]

Time was compressed from 16 minutes to 28.5 seconds, and wave frequency was decreased by a factor of 5. Cassini captured the data on September 2, 2017, two weeks before the spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.

Digital Video, dimensions variable, 2020

Animation created during the Manhattan Lockdown due to the Covid Pandemic, inspired by New York City and its people.

Watch high resolution video here:
https://www.mirenarhee.art/electric-nyc-animation-mirena-rhee.mp4

digital video, dimensions variable, 2020

A series of animations inspired by New York City and created during the lockdown in Manhattan.

Watch high-resolution version here:

https://bit.ly/HandsElectricNYC

Hands New York City is a series of animations created during the Manhattan lockdown and inspired by New York City and its people.

A city electric and luminous with many people, we are all so different and we live in peace.

With Hands Empire State Building. I have been watching the heart of New York City beat on top of the Empire State Building, I watched the moon rise over it.

Created by American NYC based Contemporary artist Mirena Rhee while in lockdown in Manhattan.

Interactive real-time simulation game with pen and ink drawings, simulated collisions soundscape, 2016

Humpty-Dumpty is a real-time interactive simulation game based on a drawing of the same name - Humpty-Dumpty. With the red background based on the drawing New York Red. Simulated soundscape based on collisions.

I call these hands landscapes. The drawings were scanned into the computer and the environment was created in Maya and Unity 3D. None of the movements of the hands/eggs, the sounds and the camera movements were pre-recorded or animated. The simulation game was run and the resulting movements and sounds were recorded. This is one-off record of one of the infinite permutations and possibilities within this landscape. The major forces applied to the hands/eggs are gravity and collisions.

Interactive real-time simulation game with pen and ink drawings, simulated collisions soundscape, 2016

Humpty-Dumpty is a real-time interactive simulation game based on a drawing of the same name - Humpty-Dumpty. With the red background based on the drawing New York Red. Simulated soundscape based on collisions.

I call these hands landscapes. The drawings were scanned into the computer and the environment was created in Maya and Unity 3D. None of the movements of the hands/eggs, the sounds and the camera movements were pre-recorded or animated. The simulation game was run and the resulting movements and sounds were recorded. This is one-off record of one of the infinite permutations and possibilities within this landscape. The major forces applied to the hands/eggs are gravity and collisions.

Interactive real-time simulation game with pen and ink drawings, simulated collisions soundscape, 2016

Humpty-Dumpty is a real-time interactive simulation game based on a drawing of the same name - Humpty-Dumpty. With the red background based on the drawing New York Red. Simulated soundscape based on collisions.

I call these hands landscapes. The drawings were scanned into the computer and the environment was created in Maya and Unity 3D. None of the movements of the hands/eggs, the sounds and the camera movements were pre-recorded or animated. The simulation game was run and the resulting movements and sounds were recorded. This is one-off record of one of the infinite permutations and possibilities within this landscape. The major forces applied to the hands/eggs are gravity and collisions.

animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings, digital video recording, 2017

animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings, digital video recording, 2017

animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings, digital video recording, 2017