Story board

Stairs
Purple backlight
Dim environment (Dio is a vampire)
Airflow appears when Dio debut
Background music for spooky vibe

Environment

Interaction

1. Polnareff met Dio under the stairs. Polnareff and Did negotiated
3. Polnareff go upstairs
4. Dio used his stand ability
5. Polnareff was moved down stairs
6. Dio disappeared

As part of my concept for recreating this scene, I envision a dim environment with purple lighting to create an eerie atmosphere that matches the tone of the original story. I plan to incorporate Dio’s personal theme OST to further enhance the immersion and evoke the same emotions as the original scene.
In terms of interaction, I intend to use a two-step process where Polnareff’s (camera perspective) movement is triggered by user input. Each time Polnareff takes a step up the staircase, the camera perspective will reset back to its original position, creating a looping effect that simulates the continuous ascent of the staircase.

Conclusion

As a re-scene project of a classic anime, my primary focus is on the anime’s fanbase. After receiving feedback from fandom groups and conducting research and testing, here are my findings:

In summary, the primary interaction in my project will be limited to screen tap gesture. Upon tapping the screen, Dio will re-appear and disappear above the stage with different lines, accompanied by background music pause and airflow effects. To further detail Dio’s power demonstration, I have observed in anime clips that Dio’s power is often accompanied by clock stop sound effects and a colour reverse circle to indicate his affecting zone. Therefore, I have added a subtract material sphere to replicate this feature in my re-scene.

SWOT Analysis

Due to the limitations of my topic, my main source of reference is limited to the animated performance of this scene. While there are coloured fan-made manga and game adaptations that cater to player’s visibility, I believe that the animated scenes can best express the scope of this particular part of the story.
The most time-consuming process of this entire project has been the preparation section.For the character, most model file I found were in pmx file format, which could not be imported into Blender or C4D directly. Additionally, the pmx import plugin for Blender was outdated. The first feasible model I used had excessive texture operations, which resulted in file size limitations in Spark AR upon importing. However, I was able to rig my final model using Mixamo, which allowed me to create a movable character in my project.

Process

To achieve my desired portal effect and make audiences feel like they are entering the story, I created an outer building and set its opacity to 0. However, I encountered a mistake in choosing an oversized file for the interior object, which was luckily resolved using the Meta Spark Toolkit extension in Blender. For audio, I selected voice lines from the game of dim speak out the name of his stand ability and added them along with clock sound effects.

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