Discipline — Virtual Reality
Discipline — Virtual Reality
Virtual reality in this practice runs both directions: cinematic 360 film — stitched, reconstructed, and composited in Nuke — and real-time worlds built procedurally in Houdini and delivered through Unreal Engine.
The subjects range as widely as the pipelines: a Four Seasons resort that buyers could walk before it was built, a Ken Burns PBS documentary companion, a Nobel Media partnership on the victims of nuclear weapons, VR go-karts, a 360 music video for Honda, and in-game cinematics for Skydance Interactive's Archangel.
The practice includes
A virtual reality visualization for Costa Palmas, the Four Seasons resort development on Baja's East Cape — built while the resort itself was still under construction, so buyers and stakeholders could walk the property years before it existed.
Environment and asset preparation were done procedurally in Houdini, delivered in Unreal Engine 4.
In partnership with Nobel Media and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ICAN, The Day the World Changed brings viewers the harrowing impressions of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing.
First-hand testimonies meet data visualizations and an innovative use of 3-D scanning and photogrammetry.
The VR companion to Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky's PBS documentary The Sharps' War — the true story of an American couple who helped refugees escape Nazi Europe in 1939.
The fully computer-generated experience puts you on a boat crossing from Portugal to America, traveling alongside young refugees on a rescue that saved 27 children.
"Walk the property years before it existed."
Primary level design and asset production were done in Houdini using a series of procedural tools that allowed for quick iteration and a fully procedural pipeline through to Unreal Engine.
Girl tells the story of a 16-year-old who finds herself living with her grandmother in Joshua Tree, California, following the breakdown of her parents' marriage.
Audiences experience the story from the young girl's perspective — 360 video and VR used to put the viewer inside her world.
A 360 music video for Honda — technical director and lead Nuke artist on the piece.
UV distortion maps written out of Autopano drove the stitch reconstruction in Nuke, so the original source material — all shot on a nodal Red Dragon rig — could be used directly.
