Behind the Scenes
Concept
The visual concept was built around the concepts prescribed to Origo, the four key-words being: bold, minimal, clean and industrial.
The virtual reality experience was designed to be a ‘spiritual successor’ of the original gallery. It was not designed to replicate it, but to recreate an experience with new art works.
Building
Quickmaths Programming worked with Origo, aiding with coding and construction of the lighting and environments for the VR App concept.
This was done by the programming team separating into smaller teams to work on different aspects of the app such as movement, lighting and different rooms- ultimately creating a better work efficiency.
Assets
The design process of the assets started with the design of each artwork as an environment within their own room. As development went on, the layout of the VR App environment underwent alterations to accurately portray the original exhibition’s “bare, polished concrete and exposed beams industrial” warehouse appearance, as well as providing users with a smoother experience while using the VR App.
Designers Sally (Creative Director), Larissa, Glyzelle, and Rebecca composed draft sketches of the designs, and overview maps of each room (and accompanying assets) for each work. Jonathan (Co-leader) developed these concepts by building each asset in Unity. Different textures such as polished concrete and wood were incorporated into the “warehouse” environment.
The original layout for the concept was to create separate rooms with one single portal room, but was amended to become one large open-space warehouse to better simulate the integrity of the original Superposition exhibition space.
Quickmaths Programming then finalised the lighting and particle effects, as well as the motions and environment within the application.
Through the collaboration between all parties, the assets and artworks were brought to life by the implementation of movement, textures and lighting to each component, thus encapsulating the Superposition experience.
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