STORYTELLING / UX / 3D / NFC
ÉireLore
Cultural heritage + NFC interaction. MSc with First Class Honours.
Challenge
Preserve Irish legends and make cultural heritage engaging for younger audiences through an experience that begins with a physical object and continues online.
My role
I conceived the project and led a four-person team over 12 weeks. I owned character modelling, resin printing, airbrush painting, finishing, NFC preparation and documentation, and contributed to the website and technology implementation. The digital portal was a team delivery.
The experience
Tap a figure with an NFC-capable phone to open its dedicated character page. Explore the legend through written stories, multilingual audio, ambient music and maps of its origin. Language and voice-intonation selection was a key implementation challenge.
Delivery & recognition
Three finished physical characters and a working NFC-linked portal, with initial testing and presentation to the college community. I received First Class Honours for my MSc Interactive Digital Media. This is my academic classification, not a separate team award.
Design for production
I designed the figures with printability and repeatable production in mind, then modelled in ZBrush, prepared prints in Chitubox and finished them by hand. Industrial-scale production has not been validated.
Tools: zbrush, chitubox, magnific, chatgpt, claude, davinci