STEPH SASSINE

Character Sketch - Maya model and Zbrush texture

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:08:00 -0400

Character Sketch - Maya model and Zbrush texture

Character Sketch - Maya model and Zbrush texturing

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:00:36 -0400

Character Sketch - Maya model and Zbrush texturing

Zbrush Texturing

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:47:55 -0400

Zbrush Texturing

Zbrush Sculpting

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:39:00 -0400

Zbrush Sculpting

Character Design

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Character Design

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Pity The Nation - Performance - Raise Your Voice - Interactive...

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:11:00 -0400

Pity The Nation - Performance - Raise Your Voice - Interactive Installation

“Raise Your Voice” is an Interactive video projection layering explosions onto the faces of the 13 political martyrs that have been assassinated from 2005 until this day, killing innocent civilians as casualties in the attempted terrorist attacks.
The faces are grey and barely visible until someone talks or raises their voice in the room, lighting up the face of the martyrs.
“Raise Your Voice” acts like a reminder to the Lebanese population and encourages them to make a change by making their voices heard.

“Pity the Nation” is a performance with the “Raise Your Voice” interactive video projection where I am reciting the poem “Pity the Nation” by Lebanese American poet Gebran Khalil Gebran in Arabic, French, then English, which are the 3 main languages spoken in Lebanon.

“B54” is a site-specific intervention at the Bus stop on...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:53:00 -0400

“B54” is a site-specific intervention at the Bus stop on Myrtle Avenue between Hall street and Grand Avenue.
The B-54 bus is not reliable in being on time, and most bus stops in New York don’t have bus booths for people to sit in or be protected from the rain, snow or sun.

On the other hand, nowadays, we are used to reading typed conversations, and while waiting for the bus, people generally either talk or text on their phones if they are by themselves,
or communicate with other commuters. “B54” translates a short conversation happening at this bus stop. The purpose is to entertain commuters, while shedding light on the practicality issue we face there everytime.

The next step for this project is to do the same thing on every bus stop of that B-54 bus, each one translating a unique conversation recorded at that same place, taking the shape of the pole’s shadow at different times of the day.

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10.19.2012 On October 19 2012, a terrible explosion...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:24:00 -0400

10.19.2012

On October 19 2012, a terrible explosion hapened in Sassine square in Beirut, Lebanon. It was a terrorist attack targeting ISF Information Branch General Wissam al-Hassan.

Being away in the USA, all I could do was watch as the horror was unfolding, feeling helpless, until I realised that that was the street where my family lives in, and that house my grandparents’…

Self-Portrait representing my struggle between contradicting...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:19:00 -0400

Self-Portrait representing my struggle between contradicting desires of holding on and letting go of something seemingly precious due to my up-bringing and the pressure of the Lebanese old-fashionned society, versus outside pressures including the Western culture.

PEDRO Girl meets Boy… or does she? A typical awkward...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:12:15 -0500

PEDRO

Girl meets Boy… or does she?

A typical awkward first conversation that gets weirder with a twist.
Up to interpretations.

CATT CATT was shown in the Fall 2012 Miami Art Basel, as well...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:00:00 -0500

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CATT

CATT was shown in the Fall 2012 Miami Art Basel, as well as in the “Interactive Arts Student Exhibition” at Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts Gallery from February 25th 2013 to March 8th 2013.

This is the logo and app icon that I designed for the augmented reality application that me, my classmates and the “Augmented Mountain” group created.

This is the app’s demo

This is the complete walkthrough of the experience

This is the website we created for the app

You can purchase the app on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/catt/id577142243?mt=8

SMUDJ This is an updated version of the SMUDJ application for...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:42:00 -0500

SMUDJ

This is an updated version of the SMUDJ application for iOS devices.

“SMUDJ” is a mobile application for iPhone and iPad that lets the user smudge his/her own images.
Unlike retouching applications that enable users to edit their pictures in order to make them prettier, “SMUDJ” helps users deform their pictures, turning them into either uncanny portraits or abstract “artsy” artworks.

The user can either instantly take a picture, or upload one from his gallery.
A set of five brushes, each representing a different blend mode, are presented to the user, along with a slider to select a brush size.

A testing canvas with a default picture is available to the user in order to test his brush first, if needed. Then, the user can go back to his main canvas and paint, deform and smudge the picture he has chosen. Additionally, he can save the picture or reset it.

The user decides what direction his artwork will take, but the original purpose of this painting application is to smudge portraits, and deform faces as extremely as one wants, turning them uncanny and creepy.

This application is realized using Appcelerator Titanium, using the system’s API as well as Javascript and HTML.

Music Credits: Atlas Hands - Benjamin Francis Leftwich

CATT at Pratt CATT was shown in the Fall 2012 Miami Art Basel,...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:05:00 -0500

CATT at Pratt

CATT was shown in the Fall 2012 Miami Art Basel, as well as in the “Interactive Arts Student Exhibition” at Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts Gallery from February 25th 2013 to March 8th 2013.

CATT is an Augmented Reality Application for Iphone and Ipad done by me and my classmates, in collaboration with Augmented Mountain (Phoenix Toews, Meredith Drum and Mitch Miller).

Students : Stephanie Sassine, Liqian Lederer, Jiachun LI, Zexin Li, Yang Yang, Shu-Kuang Lin, Xiong Liu, Michael Burkett, and Jing Bao.

This is the complete walkthrough of the experience

This is the website we created for the app

You can purchase the app on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/catt/id577142243?mt=8