Time

Time is a serial art project consisting of interactive seekable animations. Each piece is intended to be viewed in a web browser on a mobile phone or desktop computer.

This has been a learning project about WebGL for me. If you have any suggestions for ways to improve the techniques here, please reach out!

Technical details

This repo implements a roughly WYSIWYG workflow for web animations created using Blender. Art files are created in Blender and then data is exported using the code in src/loaders/blender-loader/. This data is displayed in WebGL using regl by the code in src/loaders/time-loader/.

In order to use Blender's bezier-based animation data natively, curve control points are exported and then evaluated using a port of Blender's fcurve internals. Similarly, for smooth meshes, Blender's subdivision surfaces are reproduced on the client side using Erkaman's gl-catmull-clark library.