Thursday, April 20, 2017

A Moment in Time

Before I talk about this piece I wanted to first borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs.
"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything."
To me this applies to the Oculus Rift & Touch in combination with "Quill": A VR painting tool developed by oculus story studio. After doing several paintings in VR, one of them being "Worlds in Worlds", Quill already changed the way I look at art forever. And just as I thought it can't get more exciting the Quill team let me test a version of Quill with animation capabilities.
Immediately I started thinking about how I could use it in my work. Several years ago I used to create animated gifs in form of endless loops. I always liked how these gifs could capture moments far better than a single painting. That made me think:
"What if I painted and animated a moment in time that people could explore and experience from multiple angles at their own pace?"
This is when I started working on my first animated Quillustration. I started with a street and animated a guy walking down this street frame by frame. Then I added a guy smoking a cigarette on the other side of the street all as looping animations. The more I added to the scene the more magical it became. Seeing my painted characters come alive and being inside my painting with them was incredible. The scene kept growing and as I added positional audio to the mix it became complete. This piece took me about 80 hours to finish and the fact that Quill allows a single person to create something like this is still mind boggling to me. Important to note, what you are about to see is a real time capture of the animated Quillustration meaning it’s all running in real time inside Quill. This new medium is truly something extraordinary, it's more than I could have ever dreamed of! So thank you Inigo Quilez and the Quill team to make this possible!
This is "A Moment in Time"



3 comments:

Emanuele said...

Very interesting, even if it's not very clear to me how it works and, above all, how it works compared to traditional 3D animation.

I will take a look at it :)

Homeless Drone said...

You just a wonderful discoverer, I am your Padawan for life!

Jake Rupert said...

Hi Goro,

This is so stunning and just 80 h work of just one (though ingenious) person, incredible!!!
I expect whole movies done this way soon.
I hope this version of Quill will soon be available for everybody and also be affordable.

How about mixing this with medium?

I love your "speed paint" style, but would this also work in a more elaborate illustration style or is Quill kind of naturally "guiding " you to this way of painting, meaning how much would different styles be possible?

thanks a lot for showing us this!

cheers und alles,alles Gute!

;) Jake