Design & build the environment for the Eyesonthesky experience within Unreal Engine 4 as a virtual experience that could be realized/ build & feature existing work, research and prototypes.

Lead Scientist, Narrator

Moriba Jah

Executive Producer:

Erin Reilly

Creative Director:

Sven Ortel

VR producer:

Deepak Chetty

Director of Research:

Lucy Atkinson

• Experience Designer: Logan Smith
• Assistant XR designer: Ben Randall
• Assistant XR designer: Jackson Cobb
• XR Art director & Scenic Consultant: Chris Conard.
• Fabrication consultant: J.E. Johnson

Goals: playable, detailed, cohesive world which represents the experience as if it was physically built!

Base you ideas on the needs of the project and narrative

Mandatory rooms to include:

Briefing room / Lab, XR Dome, Debriefing room

• use the design drawing from august 2020 as a starting point:
• refer to existing research and leading team for guidance

Challenges:

• integrate work-in-progress demos/ prototypes into the experience:
  • Showcase the two options for the XR dome: green screen replacement/ set extension and led based XR stage
• Branching Narrative sequence developed as part of IM studio class: the "Trails" project - this is it's own level (or levels).
• Volumetric capture of Moriba
• Create world that can be physically built and install

Opportunties:

• explore how physical set building can inform virtual set-building
• explore CAD to unreal workflows
• explore new levels of realism for project pitches