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Clients: Active Replica
Platform: Mozilla Hubs (social VR)
Design: 2 versions of polar bears
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Creative Direction:
The two bears were designed for a two day event. The attendees consisted of french-speaking students living in northern BC. In order to create the illusion of time, I designed one sitting bear toasting marshmellows on one day and then the same polar bear on all fours leaving a fireless pit and seared branches on the ground. The concept of time was told by using a UI tactic borrowed from the gaming world. Visual cues and interactivity in VR are easily solved using gaming interactivity techniques.
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Since the high-resolution were not optimized for mozilla hubs, I was required to paint them over again in low poly mode. Each bear was reduced to only 17 k thus permitting more people to visit the room.
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The space was absolutely stunning with northern lights in the background and images of local animals in the outer rim of the space.
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