1 00:00:15,519 --> 00:00:16,560 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Hi guys. 2 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,280 We are team TotoGro. 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,250 We are Sean and Lucy. 4 00:00:22,250 --> 00:00:24,470 And we have one more who dropped out, 5 00:00:24,470 --> 00:00:28,110 but Chris made a lot of impact into this project as well. 6 00:00:28,110 --> 00:00:29,780 So what is TotoGro? 7 00:00:29,780 --> 00:00:32,689 We love animation, we love music, 8 00:00:32,689 --> 00:00:39,860 and we also love this Japanese Disney movie called My Neighbor 9 00:00:39,860 --> 00:00:40,610 Totoro. 10 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:42,193 I don't know if you guys have seen it. 11 00:00:42,193 --> 00:00:43,280 It's from Studio Ghibli. 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,966 And in it, there is a scene where they grow a tree. 13 00:00:48,966 --> 00:00:50,090 If you go to the next clip. 14 00:00:50,090 --> 00:00:52,250 This is our website, by the way. 15 00:00:52,250 --> 00:00:55,950 So in our next clip, you can see the different stages. 16 00:00:55,950 --> 00:00:59,850 So at first you have Totoro going around a little garden 17 00:00:59,850 --> 00:01:00,350 space. 18 00:01:00,350 --> 00:01:02,900 And they're actually bowing, they're praying, 19 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:03,890 they're bowing. 20 00:01:03,890 --> 00:01:06,740 And as they're bowing, the trees grow. 21 00:01:06,740 --> 00:01:08,870 And then as they're bowing even more, 22 00:01:08,870 --> 00:01:11,570 the tree grows up into a real tree. 23 00:01:11,570 --> 00:01:15,590 And so while we were inspired by Totoro the spirit animal, 24 00:01:15,590 --> 00:01:18,440 we also saw some videos online of little kids 25 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,980 doing the exact same motion. 26 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:21,146 So we want to show you that. 27 00:01:26,379 --> 00:01:28,420 And so it's a little kid who's watching the video 28 00:01:28,420 --> 00:01:29,730 and she gets down. 29 00:01:29,730 --> 00:01:32,980 Maybe you can fast forward a little bit. 30 00:01:32,980 --> 00:01:36,650 And then so she's actually doing the motion. 31 00:01:36,650 --> 00:01:41,770 You can see Totoro actually doing that and his friends 32 00:01:41,770 --> 00:01:45,060 bowing as well. 33 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:48,470 So we thought that this was really, really cute. 34 00:01:48,470 --> 00:01:53,235 And we said we wanted to be Totoro the spirit animal as 35 00:01:53,235 --> 00:01:53,735 well. 36 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:01,110 So what we did was we looked into the three-- 37 00:02:01,110 --> 00:02:02,580 you love this video. 38 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:06,858 [LAUGHS] Let's get it back to the web site. 39 00:02:06,858 --> 00:02:08,730 [LAUGHTER] 40 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:13,710 GUEST SPEAKER 1: So the next one. 41 00:02:13,710 --> 00:02:16,160 So what we did was we had a little strategy 42 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,100 meeting between the three of us and we thought, 43 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:23,550 what did these kids do in terms of getting 44 00:02:23,550 --> 00:02:25,080 the three motions to happen? 45 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,450 So the first one is the seed sprouting. 46 00:02:27,450 --> 00:02:29,590 So you can see that what they did was 47 00:02:29,590 --> 00:02:31,100 they lift their hands up. 48 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:33,530 The second motion was the bowing motion. 49 00:02:33,530 --> 00:02:36,090 And then the third one was they flew up to the canopy. 50 00:02:36,090 --> 00:02:37,592 Sorry, I had the little thing on. 51 00:02:37,592 --> 00:02:39,050 So they're flying up to the canopy. 52 00:02:39,050 --> 00:02:42,140 So we said, what three motions can we do as a team? 53 00:02:42,140 --> 00:02:44,810 So we said the easiest thing to do 54 00:02:44,810 --> 00:02:48,110 is to sprout a tree by jumping. 55 00:02:48,110 --> 00:02:50,840 A second one, instead of having people bow-- 56 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,340 or we couldn't do that, actually. 57 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:55,790 So we decided to move the hand instead of bowing. 58 00:02:55,790 --> 00:02:57,927 You're moving the hand up and down. 59 00:02:57,927 --> 00:02:59,510 So instead of moving your body, you're 60 00:02:59,510 --> 00:03:01,310 moving your hand up and down. 61 00:03:01,310 --> 00:03:02,930 And the third one instead of flying, 62 00:03:02,930 --> 00:03:05,830 we decided to move our hands out to grow the leaf. 63 00:03:05,830 --> 00:03:09,170 So by moving up and down, you're growing the tree. 64 00:03:09,170 --> 00:03:13,490 And by moving sideways, you're growing that leaf. 65 00:03:13,490 --> 00:03:17,330 And so we went through this. 66 00:03:17,330 --> 00:03:21,530 And it took us a really long time to get this going, 67 00:03:21,530 --> 00:03:24,170 but we're really excited to show you what we have. 68 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:27,980 And then also the other thing is we took a soundtrack 69 00:03:27,980 --> 00:03:31,160 from the movie, legally and illegally, 70 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,370 but it was actually a Japanese version of it. 71 00:03:34,370 --> 00:03:36,144 But we didn't want to pay for it. 72 00:03:36,144 --> 00:03:37,310 So that's why it's Japanese. 73 00:03:37,310 --> 00:03:40,280 If we had to pay for it, it would have been in English. 74 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,182 But it's in Japanese. 75 00:03:42,182 --> 00:03:46,144 [LAUGHTER] 76 00:03:46,144 --> 00:03:47,810 GUEST SPEAKER 1: So what we also did was 77 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:49,670 we created a start button. 78 00:03:53,460 --> 00:03:58,400 And if you hover over the start game, it changes color. 79 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,180 Cool. 80 00:03:59,180 --> 00:03:59,974 [LAUGHTER] 81 00:03:59,974 --> 00:04:02,390 GUEST SPEAKER 1: And then this wasn't supposed to show up, 82 00:04:02,390 --> 00:04:03,795 but you're supposed to press goal 83 00:04:03,795 --> 00:04:05,720 and it's supposed to hug a tree. 84 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,240 And then these three buttons, they currently 85 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,110 are the exact same three buttons which goes to the project. 86 00:04:12,110 --> 00:04:13,367 So click on the button. 87 00:04:13,367 --> 00:04:14,825 AUDIENCE: Are you demonstrating it? 88 00:04:14,825 --> 00:04:15,741 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Yeah. 89 00:04:15,741 --> 00:04:16,675 [LAUGHTER] 90 00:04:16,675 --> 00:04:17,300 AUDIENCE: Good. 91 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:21,209 GUEST SPEAKER 1: And so I hope the sound is on. 92 00:04:21,209 --> 00:04:22,740 Oh, it's right here. 93 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:23,480 Sorry. 94 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,967 OK, so the first thing you do is you jump. 95 00:04:25,967 --> 00:04:28,348 AUDIENCE: Mind picking up the microphone? 96 00:04:28,348 --> 00:04:29,306 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Sorry. 97 00:04:32,645 --> 00:04:35,030 First thing you do is you jump. 98 00:04:35,030 --> 00:04:36,742 First thing you do is you jump. 99 00:04:36,742 --> 00:04:37,634 [LAUGHTER] 100 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,350 AUDIENCE: Where's the connector located? 101 00:04:41,350 --> 00:04:42,670 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Right here. 102 00:04:42,670 --> 00:04:45,850 AUDIENCE: Wait, is it plugged in? 103 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:46,712 AUDIENCE: Oh, right. 104 00:04:46,712 --> 00:04:47,706 [LAUGHTER] 105 00:04:47,706 --> 00:04:49,080 AUDIENCE: I forgot to plug it in. 106 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:49,500 Sorry guys. 107 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:50,541 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Darn it. 108 00:04:50,541 --> 00:04:51,681 [LAUGHTER] 109 00:04:51,681 --> 00:04:53,680 AUDIENCE: Sorry, we getting at the [INAUDIBLE]?? 110 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,550 [LAUGHTER] 111 00:05:02,978 --> 00:05:05,070 GUEST SPEAKER 1: I hope the sound's on. 112 00:05:05,070 --> 00:05:05,695 AUDIENCE: Yeah. 113 00:05:05,695 --> 00:05:06,436 I've got sound. 114 00:05:06,436 --> 00:05:07,918 It was playing during my video. 115 00:05:13,717 --> 00:05:15,300 GUEST SPEAKER 1: If it was in English, 116 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:19,440 I would have karaoke this whole song for you. 117 00:05:29,919 --> 00:05:31,915 [MUSIC PLAYING] 118 00:05:33,412 --> 00:05:34,909 [LAUGHTER] 119 00:05:53,372 --> 00:05:54,370 AUDIENCE: Here we go. 120 00:06:11,835 --> 00:06:13,870 AUDIENCE: Can you grow into infinity? 121 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:14,830 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Yes it can, but we didn't 122 00:06:14,830 --> 00:06:15,871 have the camera track it. 123 00:06:15,871 --> 00:06:17,205 Do you see the shadows? 124 00:06:17,205 --> 00:06:20,360 See the shadow growing? 125 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,404 AUDIENCE: Do your hand motions affect how it grows? 126 00:06:24,404 --> 00:06:25,320 GUEST SPEAKER 1: What? 127 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,444 AUDIENCE: Do your hand motions affect how it grows? 128 00:06:27,444 --> 00:06:29,328 [APPLAUSE] 129 00:06:30,304 --> 00:06:33,720 GUEST SPEAKER 1: That's the next step, for sure. 130 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,672 [MUSIC PLAYING] 131 00:06:39,170 --> 00:06:43,246 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Yeah, this is kind of like a crazy. 132 00:06:43,246 --> 00:06:47,280 GUEST SPEAKER 2: Yeah, some of the [INAUDIBLE].. 133 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,380 That's all-- Chris made this main planting. 134 00:06:50,380 --> 00:06:53,650 So we had this idea that maybe the plant could grow 135 00:06:53,650 --> 00:06:55,740 sideways, [INAUDIBLE] sideways. 136 00:06:55,740 --> 00:06:58,650 And then it would go different ways. 137 00:06:58,650 --> 00:07:01,490 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Yeah, but we didn't get that far. 138 00:07:01,490 --> 00:07:04,600 GUEST SPEAKER 2: There were some peculiarities. 139 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,796 We used a cue and we just scaled it to grow. 140 00:07:08,796 --> 00:07:11,950 And the thing is, when you scale it, it grows at both sides. 141 00:07:11,950 --> 00:07:13,630 So when you do that, you need to move 142 00:07:13,630 --> 00:07:17,190 to transform at the same time when you scale it. 143 00:07:17,190 --> 00:07:18,551 And [INAUDIBLE] growing. 144 00:07:18,551 --> 00:07:19,212 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Sorry, I love it 145 00:07:19,212 --> 00:07:20,760 so much I'm playing it again. 146 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,660 GUEST SPEAKER 2: So [INAUDIBLE] as well. 147 00:07:22,660 --> 00:07:25,249 So you have to move the transform as it's scaling. 148 00:07:25,249 --> 00:07:32,030 And [INAUDIBLE] get stuck on the topmost stem as well. 149 00:07:32,030 --> 00:07:34,196 Yeah, there were some more different things as well. 150 00:07:34,196 --> 00:07:35,654 So that's why we didn't go further. 151 00:07:35,654 --> 00:07:41,074 So we angle for the [INAUDIBLE] jet out the plant [INAUDIBLE] 152 00:07:41,074 --> 00:07:44,038 So we just went [INAUDIBLE]. 153 00:07:44,038 --> 00:07:45,520 That's TotoGro. 154 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,990 GUEST SPEAKER 1: That's TotoGro. 155 00:07:47,990 --> 00:07:49,966 [APPLAUSE] 156 00:07:53,918 --> 00:07:57,370 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Any questions? 157 00:07:57,370 --> 00:07:57,870 Yes? 158 00:07:57,870 --> 00:08:01,196 AUDIENCE: So I was curious if you [INAUDIBLE] 159 00:08:01,196 --> 00:08:04,190 rotate it around. 160 00:08:04,190 --> 00:08:08,490 [INAUDIBLE] was it like random rotate? 161 00:08:08,490 --> 00:08:09,876 GUEST SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I randomly 162 00:08:09,876 --> 00:08:13,110 rotated the [INAUDIBLE] start growing. 163 00:08:13,110 --> 00:08:14,525 This looks like this. 164 00:08:14,525 --> 00:08:16,024 You can't tilt it. 165 00:08:16,024 --> 00:08:21,207 AUDIENCE: So you swapped from a single cube, a [INAUDIBLE] 166 00:08:21,207 --> 00:08:24,490 cube, so that a set amount grows? 167 00:08:24,490 --> 00:08:25,705 GUEST SPEAKER 2: Yeah. 168 00:08:25,705 --> 00:08:28,030 The first way is if you make your leaf 169 00:08:28,030 --> 00:08:30,800 so the length-- beyond this length we start a new one. 170 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,877 Or if you grow it so then-- 171 00:08:32,877 --> 00:08:34,230 there's two ways for it. 172 00:08:34,230 --> 00:08:36,870 It's kind of experimental. 173 00:08:36,870 --> 00:08:38,615 We don't really have instructions. 174 00:08:38,615 --> 00:08:41,329 So a newcomer coming here was not knowing what to do. 175 00:08:41,329 --> 00:08:42,799 And we explain with the hands. 176 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,510 And see [INAUDIBLE]. 177 00:08:46,510 --> 00:08:47,880 We know, so we have it. 178 00:08:51,430 --> 00:08:52,680 AUDIENCE: Any other questions? 179 00:08:56,656 --> 00:08:57,780 GUEST SPEAKER 1: Thank you. 180 00:08:57,780 --> 00:09:00,106 [APPLAUSE]