by hotknife | Feb 9, 2026 | Character, Modelling, Realtime, Realtime Interactive, Texturing
A compilation of some of our recent works for Galleries and museums, ranging from gesture-based interactives to AR & VR experiences. Venues include Wollaton Hall Nottingham, Wakefield WX, Wellcome Collection London. This selection brings together projects that...
by hotknife | Jun 5, 2023 | Animation, Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the process by which objects or scenes in the real-world are photographed or scanned and converted into digital assets. The Hyena model was recreated for Wollaton Hall museum, as a digital interactive to investigate the many processes of Taxidermy....
by hotknife | May 5, 2022 | Realtime, Realtime Interactive, VR
Hot Knife were asked to create a fun interatice VR game intended for the concourse of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022. The concept, comissioned by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, was for a VR first-person shooter, set in a sporting arena, featuring inflatable...
by hotknife | May 14, 2021 | Animation, Character, Realtime Interactive
Again working with the wonderful Jason Wilsher-Mills we created a digital ‘angel’ that was displayed on a dual/front back advertising monitor. This was for the Sky Arts Landmark television programme in 2021. The interactive figure was controlled...
by hotknife | Dec 16, 2020 | Animation, Character, Look Dev, Realtime
We’ve been playing with dinosaurs, well specifically with a 2Gb download of a tyrannosaurus skeleton that we utilised to build this Trex with. Rendered in Blender using both it’s realtime viewport and Cycles renderer. Can you tell which took 2-3 secs a...
by hotknife | Oct 22, 2020 | AR, Character, Realtime
Development for Augmented Reality (AR) Apps. Using your phone to place a ground pin, a portal to another dimension allows you to explore virtual spaces, from galleries & video booths, to corporate spaces such as warehouse distribution and beyond ...
by hotknife | Sep 17, 2020 | Look Dev, Modelling, Motion Graphics, Rendering & Lighting
Development for a Virtual Airport Studio, with multiple screens throughout the environment to composite user-generated-video. Visualised in both 2D & 3D See the Video on...
by hotknife | Jul 17, 2020 | Editing, Look Dev, Modelling, Rendering & Lighting
Due to the pandemic we’ve had a lot of requests for Virtual Studios, to place Zoom or Teams videos within. We’ve created After Effects templates allowing directors to drop their videos into the scene and choose from multiple camera moves within the...
by hotknife | Feb 7, 2020 | Animation, Character, Plugin/App, Realtime
A screengrab from the AR section of the App, showing the Leftlion prowling around the market square at dusk as part of Nottingham’s Light Night 2020. The App hosted both image based & GPS located AR 3d animations....
by hotknife | Jan 30, 2020 | Look Dev, Modelling, Rendering & Lighting, Texturing
3D model based on balsawood construction methods. Inspired by the work of Vera van...
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