REVERIE

VR Experience Design and Development | 3D Visual Art

Year: May 2018

#Unreal Engine #Animation #Motion Capture #Quill

 This is an ongoing project, and will be kept updating. Please come back and check often :)

Life is a dream, mine seems illusory like those beautiful butterflies in Zhuangzi's reverie.

庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶

When we dream we do not know that we are dreaming. In our dreams we may even interpret our dreams. Only after we are awake do we know that we have dreamed. But there comes a great awakening, and then we know that life is a great dream.

梦醒时分，怅然若失

The story line is inspired by the story written by Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher.

Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was con­scious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awaked, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dream­ing I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called Metempsychosis.

- ZhuangZi

In this VR experience, I want to experiment with the identity awareness of the audience in VR world.

This is the early demo of the experience. It is collaborated with Jiyao Zhang.

The character animation is made by motion capture.

Here are some visual assets I made in Quill to achieve a traditional chinese painting effect.