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So here we are, eight days until our LCC exhibition and showcase and we have pretty much everything in place for our demo/vertical slice. I think Simon and I...

Yesterday we rehearsed and then recorded our final V.O for Fractus, which felt like such a milestone! Huzzah! We worked with a wonderful performance director...

I’ve been pretty quiet on the old Fractus blog posts recently as a) it’s been Christmas and b) I’ve had a pretty spectacular run of flu for three weeks and c...

As usual I’m late to the party with this kind of thing, but I’ve totally fallen in love with Tilt Brush. It’s a VR programme which lets you paint in 3D space...

People often ask Simon and I how we manage being a husband and wife team. It’s true that there are obviously additional challenges mixing such personal and p...

Idea recap A.L.I.A.S – Artificial Lifeform – Intelligence Articulation System Theme: Humans replaced by technology Concept: In the very distant future human ...

Copyright: Raindance Immersive I was lucky enough to attend the Raindance Immersive Summit last week as well as nab tickets for the amazing XR experience Cos...

One of my LCC Screenwriting lecturer’s once said to me that often as a screenwriter you won’t be clear on what your theme is until several drafts in to a scr...

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you ha...

Over the weekend Simon and I had our first mentoring meeting with Avril Furness. For me, it was really great to have a conversation with someone who is intim...

My creative collaborator, Simon Ashbery, has been very busy the last month getting to grips with creating fractals. It’s probably best to just let the images...

Over the last few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to attend some events and have some meetings with some pretty big movers and shakers in the VR world.  These V...

In 1981 the legendary Mel Brooks released a comedy film called The History of the World, Part I. For those of you who haven’t seen it (seriously stop reading...

Fractus is a VR experience that explores the repetition of history through a powerful audioscape inside a wonderous, infinite fractal universe. What R&D can ...

My partner in crime, Simon Ashbery, has written a brilliant and in-depth series of blog posts on his research into the rendering techniques of Rasterization,...

This is the story of how I started a VR project and ended up taming lions. Ok, so I didn’t actually become a lion tamer…But this was exactly what I thought o...

So here I am, splashing around in the shallows of our R&D phase of Fractus. My gut feeling is that storytelling in VR has a lot to learn from/draw inspiratio...