SAVIO
NIGREDO EP
I directed, designed, and produced this visual experience to bring electronic dance music producer Daniel Savio into my vision of an intergalactic future where fog-drenched polygonal landscapes, abstract structures, and beat-synced mega-spheres orbit a colossal, laser-emitting disco ball that feeds the sun itself.
VR MUSIC VIDEO
Browser Experience // 2022
A 3 BODY SOLUTION
As a mind boggingly futuristic and awesome bonus feature to the NIGREDO EP is a semi-interactive virtual world. You, esteemed visitor, are therefore invited to a never-ending race on EXDS-2, a inverto-spherical off-world colony built for one purpose and one purpose alone: to keep blasting out one of Daniel Savio’s all time bangers until the sun burns out for good.
DISCIPLINES
- ALL THE THINGS
- Original concept
- Experience direction
- Visual development
- Art direction
AWARDS
- FWA site of the day
- Discogs
An INSANELY rare recording of this WebGL VR experience I managed to make before it went to the place where unsupported realtime music videos go.
SHOTS
Enjoy some random shots from the project. More to come when I dig up the work files from a hard drive that is currently somewhere, somehow and sometime.
CHALLENGE
I just wanted to make a fun 360 degrees VR experience utilising the rhythm of a song to animate objects, lights, cameras and colours, featuring “magic-auto-editing-mode”, a behaviour-driven system that randomly selects cameras to the beat. And I wanted it to be accessible for everyone on desktop and smartphones without having to download anything before watching it.
I revived an old racing game idea of mine set inside a cylinder. Some of the inspiration came from the classics – “Rendezvous with Rama” and the kick-ass racing game WipeOut by Psygnosis, designed by the Designers Republic.
SOLUTION
I jumped in and started with old-school planning on paper, then started creating everything – 3D models, environments, animation tests, in Maya. Finally, everything landed in our WebGL tool for animation and interaction implementation, syncing lights, graphics, colors, you name it, with the lush electronic beats from Daniel Savio.
RESULTS
It’s not every day you get to turn your own game concept into a trippy VR experience. Honestly, I’m pretty stoked about how it turned out.
Sadly this happy little WebVR experience is no longer online because of a horribly mismanaged company that was hosting the data. But luckily enough I remembered to record a real-time session for posterity.
