Reid Perkins-Buzo ෴ Art & Works
Effects Work & Demo Reel
- Demo Reel 2018
- My After Effects Tutorials (opens in a separate window)
- Seattle Fireball Attack
- Druun chases a pickup truck...
- Dragon Fire!
- Tyrannosaur On Ice at SIU!
- Original photo plate and final fog shot
- The Student Center Welcomes Visitors!
- Excalibur! Cinema 4D in After Effects
- Mocha & Cinema 4D in After Effects: Cable Car Pass-by
- Title Sequence
- Building Explodes Test
- Explosion Test
- Camera Tracking Example using Mocha and After Effects
Game Design
- Previously on Google Play (Update: these will be updated for the 64-bit Android versions and reposted)
- Code B! Guide your bunny through the clouds to celestial heights! Chuck carrots to dissipate noxious clouds that make you cough. Written in Starling 1.3 & Flash Builder 4.7
- Droid Wars! A 2D Unity game for Android devices. You're the green droid, attacked by red droids. Defend yourself! Created in Unity 4.1.2
- Cave Dude Run! An action game for Android devices. Keep your Cave Dude alive as long as possible. Velociraptors are deadly! Created in Flash Pro CS 6.
- In-Browser
- Pop! A Flash game written in C++ and compiled in Adobe's Crossbridge C++ compiler.
- AR Apps for AR/VR Eyewear
- Augmented Reality on the Epson Moverio BT-200.
- Educational Materials
- My Mobile Game Tutorial PDFs
- Making a 2D Game in Unity 4.3
- Game Making in Starling+Flash Builder
- Game Making in Cocos2D(v3).
- Instructing New Media Design Notes
- 3D Animation & Game Design for Classes (opens in a separate window)
- 3D Animation for Games (opens in a separate window)
Student Work & Educational Materials
- Student Work
- Sample Reel of Student Work
- From my 360° Storytelling Seminar (Sabrina Perez, Cory Vine, and Brittany Watts using UnReal Engine and Maya)
- From my 360° Storytelling Seminar (Rayleigh Funk, Alex Menke, and Zach Wright using Maya, Adobe Premier and After Effects)
- From my 360° Storytelling Seminar, Students Editing 360° Video in Premier Pro and After Effects with the Vive Pro VR headset
- Student Unity Game Engine Projects
- Project 1 Video: Conan the Detective by Brandon Dong
- Project 2 Video: Joker's Nightmare by Will Chen
- Project 3 Video: Shan shui landscape with Raccoon by Mingran Li
- One Eyed Woman Production Stills (Stop-Motion Animation)
- Educational Materials
- My After Effects Tutorials (opens in a separate window)
- 360° Virtual Reality Video Production Tutorials
- Ambisonics Audio for 360° VR Video, Parts 1 & 2
- Ambisonics Audio for 360° VR Video, Part 3
- Ambisonics Audio for 360° VR Video, Part 4
- Ambisonics for 360° VR Video Tutorial Result: Morris Library
- My Mobile Game Tutorial PDFs
- Making a 2D Game in Unity 4.3
- Game Making in Starling+Flash Builder
- Game Making in Cocos2D(v3).
- Instructing New Media Design Notes
- 3D Animation & Game Design for Classes (opens in a separate window)
- 3D Animation for Games (opens in a separate window)
3D Animation
- Festival pieces
- The Tortilla Moon
- Fuzzy & Chev in «motoring»
- Fuzzy and Chev
- This is best viewed in a VR headset (Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear, Oculus, Vive, etc.) or a Chrome browser
- It was exhibited at the 2017 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference in Las Vegas, April 23
- Fuzzy and Chev in "Pano Panic!" (360° Animation)
- Microsoft HoloLens: Clowning, a 3D Interactive Animation.
- Developing 3D Animated Experiences on the HoloLens.
- 2D and 3D Animation for Theater
- Leveling Up, Hippodrome Theater
- 1 Missile Strike with Explosion Dynamics
- 2 Missile Strike with Explosion Dynamics
- Mephistopheles from “Dr. Faustus” (Christopher Marlowe, 1592 A.D.)
- Shorts
- The Student Center Welcomes Visitors!
- Excalibur! Cinema 4D in After Effects
- Mocha & Cinema 4D in After Effects: Cable Car Pass-by
- Approaching a Rose
2D Animation and Motion Capture
- 2D (with 3D elements for Hippodrome animations)
- The TedExer (2D animation in 360° Spherical VR video)
- Leveling Up, Hippodrome Theater
- 1 Missile Strike with Explosion Dynamics
- 2 Missile Strike with Explosion Dynamics
- Playbill Credit (opens in a separate window)
- Advertising & Tutorials
- Student Film Festival Animation 2009
- Student Film Festival Animation 2008
- My After Effects Tutorials (opens in a separate window)
- Motion Capture
- Setting Up the Organic Motion Motion Capture System
- Organic Motion Motion Capture Stage in a 16 x 8 Configuration
- Facial Mocap using Microsoft Kinect, Lightwave 3D & Nevron Motion
Recent Publications
- “Oculus Rift and other Oculus devices.” Encyclopedia of Video Games (second edition). FL: Greenwood Press (May 2021).
- “DVD and Blu-ray Disc games.” Encyclopedia of Video Games (second edition). FL: Greenwood Press (May 2021).
- “Semiotics in a Regional Designer/Maker Community” Punctum, 4(1): 27-34, 2018. DOI: 10.18680/hss.2018.0004
- “HD-DVD Technologies”, in The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, Routledge, 2018. (won Best Edited Collection 2020, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
- “3D Printing — Of Signs and Objects” Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l Association Internationale de Sémiotique. January 2017, De Gruyter DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0127
- “A Deleuzian Approach to Game Design.” International Digital and Media Arts Journal (Spring 2014): 42-51.
- “Cinema Spaces, Cinema Times: Deleuze, Realist Film Theory, and Semiotics.” Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, 2014.
- “DVD and Blu-Ray Games: History, Design, Future.” Encyclopedia of Video Games. Edited by Mark Wolf, Westport, Connecticut: ABC-Clio/Greenwood Press, 2013.
- “Real Film: Realist Film Theory, Semiotics and the Documentary Film.” Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America 2007.
- “Poised to Play: the Evolution of Games on DVD Releases.” International Digital and Media Arts Journal (March 2005): 30-36.
- “John Reid Perkins-Buzo.” The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions Of Faith edited by Pongracz, Patricia C. and Wayne Roosa Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.
Recent Awards
- Foundation Grant, from the SIU Foundation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2018
- Jury Award for Animated Short Film, 8th International Latino Film Festival, San Francisco Bay Area, 2004
- Fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and the Center for Art and Technology, Northwestern University. 2000-2001.
- Absolute eXcellence in Electronic Media (AXIEM) Award 2001 (Silver). Awarded for The Sinsinawa Dominicans CD-ROM.
- The 2001 Communicator Award of Distinction Awarded for The Sinsinawa Dominicans CD-ROM.
Stereographic 3D & Cinematography
- Stereographic 3D Festival pieces (shot using a Beam Splitter Rig)
- The Future of Search (true stereographic)
- The Future of Search Production Stills
- YouTube advice: The best way to view true stereographic 3D is on a 3D capable device (3D TV or projector, PC with a 3D video card, or even a 3D mobile phone). Old-school anaglyphic glasses will work, but are not as good.
- VR 360° Stereographic 3D Video (shot with VR rig)
- Rose Garden Turley Park, Memorial Day 2015 360° Stereographic VR Video
- Turley Park, Memorial Day, 2015 360° Stereographic VR Video
- These pieces are best viewed in a VR headset (Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear, Oculus, Vive, etc.). A Chrome browser with anaglyphic glasses will work, but is not as good.
- Festival pieces
- Homecoming
- Quantum Memory
- Prodigal
- Masters Classes in 35mm Motion-Picture/High-Definition Video Camera Technology & Operation, Film/Cinema/Video Studies
International Film and Television Workshops, 2006
HoloLens Apps, Augmented Reality, 360° Video+Audio; VR Work
- Oculus Quest Work
- Oculus Quest Multi-Player Dialog System
- Developing on the Oculus Quest for education and entertainment.
- Looking Glass Holographic Display
- Looking Glass Holographic Display Development using UnReal Engine 4.23
- This was done as a prototype for a more fully developed app. This used the Looking Glass UnRealSDK 1.2.1. For more info see https://lookingglassfactory.com/
- Microsoft HoloLens Work
- HoloLens Workshop: Neuron Cluster Simulation, an Educational App
- HoloLens: Clowning, a 3D Interactive Animation.
- Developing on the HoloLens for education and entertainment.
- Nomadic AR Cinema Works on the Epson Moverio BT-200.
- This piece was curated into the SIGGRAPH VR Village at SIGGRAPH 2015.
- 3D Model with Target on the Epson Moverio BT-200 .
- 360° Panoramic Animation and Video
- These are best viewed in a VR headset (Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear, Oculus, Vive, etc.) or a Chrome browser
- They were exhibited at the 2017 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference in Las Vegas, April 23
- The TedExer (2D animation in 360° Spherical VR video)
- Fuzzy and Chev in "Pano Panic!" (360° Animation)
- Ambisonics for 360° VR Video Tutorial Result: Morris Library
- These 360° videos were part of my exhibit at the 2015 SIGGRAPH Conference
- Rose Garden Turley Park, Memorial Day 2015 360° Stereographic VR Video
- Turley Park, Memorial Day, 2015 360° Stereographic VR Video
Updated 05-29-2021