Proposal of Final Year Project 2

Title No. 9
Virtual Wood Carving

Name : Yoong Siew Lee
ID : 1051106975
Subject : Design Project 1 (Virtual Reality)

1 Introduction
1.1 Aim
This proposal aims to allow people to experience the process of making wood carving which is a valuable traditional handicraft in Malaysia.

1.2 Background
In the circumstance of technology getting progressive, people forget their own heritage and culture gradually. This phenomenon causes lost in many traditional handicrafts, it is time to take action to reserve our culture. Flourishing technology, life pace become faster, people nowadays not willing to spend long time to understand their own culture, so a virtual wood carving system is more practical compare to have a time consuming trip to wood carving factory. On the other hand, it is suitable to those who are not familiar with wood carving like tourist and child, as in virtual world, all the injury is “faked” so they wouldn’t feel the pain. Therefore, virtual wood carving is an idea and practical way for people to experience the process of making wood carving.

1.3 Methodology
The information for this proposal was obtained from reference books and internet.

1.4 Software use
I have to make use of quite a number of different software in order to complete this game, such as Macromedia Photoshop, AutoDesk 3D Studio Max and Virtools.

2 Description
2.1 Content
User goes through the process of making wood carving step by step with simple and clear instruction to ensure the users fully understand the proper process of wood carving. Through this virtual wood carving, the user will know the different type of tools of wood carving and the specify function and effect of every single tool.

2.2 Interaction
Traditional wood carving’s pattern has certain specified “standard” patterns such as “corak”, but if the pattern is predefine, the interaction between the system and user will be limited and restricted. The user might even lose interest half way through the process. Therefore, in this system, the user is allowed to create own design creatively without any restriction; however the system will still provides the instructions to ensure the procedure and sequences are correct.

3 Challenge
I believe the most difficult part of this project is to ensure the interaction run smoothly without occurrence of errors as my knowledge about Virtools software is limited, so I worried the system created unable to achieve my preset expectation.

4 References
* http://www.tourism.terengganu.gov.my/handicraft/woods.htm
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_carving
* http://www.etourz.com/wood_carving_ukiran_kayu.htm
* http://www.terengganutourism.com/handicraft.htm