What is the potential for storytelling in VR? We used a 3rd party editor plugin to help us sequence character animations in time to scripted audio (Cinema Director). We then used the game engine, Unity, to composite the animation, add the interactive features and to output to the desired VR platforms. We used a 3D animation software called Maya to make the character models and room environments.
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This project wasn’t a world away from what we do day to day, but what was different for us, was a) working on a VR project - we’ve done some prototyping in VR previously but this is by far our most ambitious undertaking and b) working on a project targeted at an older age group (we make a lot of content for kids). How is this different to what you normally do?
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Finally, we had to consider how to signpost the audience interactions - designing an interface and user experience that feels natural to the experience. This made the scripting stage of the project particularly challenging and also meant that we had to thoroughly map each character's movements and the points at which they become ‘selectable’ within the storyboards.Īs the viewer controls the POV (point of view) on the scene, everything we built needed to be viewable in 360° - which made building the scenes themselves far more complex than illustrating the background of a traditional animation. Every stage of production had to take into account the multiple, simultaneous narratives of 4 main characters whose stories are interwoven at key moments. In many ways our production process followed a traditional 3D animation pipeline only with the final stage taking place inside the Unity game engine. The end product is effectively a hybrid between an animation and a game. Delivered in virtual reality for Google Cardboard, the experience allows the audience to choose the most compelling storyline to follow by switching between characters at key points in the narrative.
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Angie’s Party is an short animated sitcom that’s set at Angie’s 16th birthday house party.