Quill, like Google’s Tilt Brush, is an artistic tool that lets you paint in virtual reality. Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s a liberating way to draw and view art in 3D space. The next step? Animation. Goro Fujita, art director at Oculus Story Studio, has created a small but beautifully detailed street which you can explore with the Rift. It’s all hand-drawn, and positional audio means you can hear birds chirping in the trees, as well as cars rushing by and a nutty engineer building robots in his store. He’s uploaded a guided tour to YouTube, which I highly recommend checking out.
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The public version of Quill doesn’t offer any animation tools at the moment. As Fujita explains in his video, the app’s development team — which is also part of Oculus — allowed him to “test” a new version which has these capabilities. “I started with a street and animated a guy walking down this street frame-by-frame,” he recalls in the description. “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.” Fujita spent 80 hours creating the bite-sized scene. It even includes his flat, complete with a cartoon version of Fujita painting in VR.
Here’s the real and virtual version side-by-side, for comparison:
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Source: Engadget