The Other Side VR

The other side VR

The Other Side VR is the first-ever virtual reality experience depicting first-hand accounts from The Partition of India. The piece re-imagines traditional woodcut prints in the realm of immersive storytelling.

ROLE:

Co-director

Art direction and Illustrations

Music

CREDITS:

Ninaad Kulkarni: Co-director, 3D/VR build, Animation

Tushar Ghei: Visual design and Branding

Pupul Bisht: Voice actor for lead character

PROCESS:

The Other Side VR was crafted after exploring several ways in which the woodcut prints could be brought to life in an immersive environment. Virtual Reality being in such a nascent stage of its evolution, did not have much of a readymade formula for reimagining something as analog as traditional printmaking. I created several artworks for each scene and character, along with swatches of marks which were then used by Ninaad to painstakingly texture and animate a 3D-modelled version of the woodcut world.

The Other Side VR premiered at Left to Devices, curated by Lotte Marie Allen & Tiger Mackie at The School of Visual Arts Flatiron gallery in 2018.