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By: Merritt Lum
Course: IAT 499 Graduation Project

Description: Information Transfer Method (ITM) is a realtime, 3D narrative project about moonbase researchers trying to make sense of the world around them, independently developed as a graduation project.

The project had two goals from the start: 1) to incorporate elements of space, cinematography and 3D into a visual novel format, and 2) to revisit and execute a wide variety of SIAT subjects. Thus, though cut somewhat short, the project features character designs and models, cinematography, environments, narrative, animations, and more, virtually self-made in entirety and dynamically assembled and implemented in Unity.

ITM itself looks at the struggle in trying to bridge the mystical and the realistic; a lack of comprehension with the acute awareness of it. The effort to grapple with things we make, do, experience or say but don’t understand, and dragging them back down to–or away from–earth.