Corpus

The project

Illustrating is an integral part of the design process. Designers are often skilled at drawing products. However, they find it difficult drawing humans interacting with those products.

A lack of this skill, including a limited repertoire of body characteristics, might limit the quality of the design process and result in biases and inclusivity issues. Professional artists often use specialized posing software. This software is found to be either lacking in detail or too slow and complicated in use for designers.

By designing Corpus, I try to find out how to make these complex professional tools more accessible to designers by using motion tracking.

Corpus is a tool that uses the Leap Motion to detect hand pose. The tool renders models of hands live in 3D with distinctive visualization styles. Users can adjust these styles to create their desired reference images. These images can be processed digitally or on paper.

In addition to using the hand tracker only for posing the models, the hand can be used as a natural interface for, for example, posing the lights.

Philips museum

This design was chosen to be featured at the BrAInpower exposition of the Philips Museum. Corpus needed to become a true ‘museum quality’ demonstrator. To achieve this, I made it more seamless and intuitive by, for example, designing a tutorial that guides the visitors though the product in an interactive way. Finally, for good measure, I implemented a new rendering style reminiscent of an actual drawing which I had proposed as future work in my project report.