Spent the last few days finishing up a project that calls on some pretty diverse skills. The first task was integrating typography into a rotating cloud in THREE.js. I’d hoped to use a sprite sheet for loading efficiency but, surprisingly, THREE.js sprite sheet support is rudimentary to the point of being non-existent and there aren’t a lot of memory savings to be made so have resorted to good-old 26 individual character sprites. The next step involved trying to integrate the rotating cloud, to be controlled ultimately by phone gyroscope, into a reeeeally complex scene involving multiple post-compositing layers of several reflective and refractive concave surfaces one contained within the other. Having the typography animate behind and in front of these surfaces proved really tricky to get working satisfactorily but I’m almost there. Today has been a bit more relaxing with some environment map modelling and texturing work in Substance Designer.