Tips on creating your virtual gallery

As I mentioned in the briefing of course structure, this course would expect you to apply the theory you learned from other courses (e.g. Design Aesthetics) when creating 3D models. 

For the first assignment, you are required to create your virtual gallery in order to show off the artwork and design work of yours. By referring to Donald Norman's three levels of emotional design, you should first think about how you want visitors to your virtual gallery feel when they visit the gallery for the first time. Happy? Sad? Excited? Angry? You need to decide how you want them to feel.

Then you think about what you want the visitors to do--the behavioural level of emotional design. Your virtual camera plus narration should guide them in the gallery. You have to decide where you want them to stop, fly-through, turnaround, etc. 

Finally, you should lead the visitors to the highlight of the gallery--your best artwork or design work. This is where the reflective level takes place and you should apply the staging principle here. Herewith a good example of a virtual gallery: The Shipping Galleries.