larabarbierFeb 201 minFractus – The TrailerBoom! Fractus Trailer from Lara Barbier on Vimeo. #Fractals #Fractus #Trailer #VR
larabarbierFeb 171 minPressing startSo here we are, eight days until our LCC exhibition and showcase and we have pretty much everything in place for our demo/vertical slice....
larabarbierFeb 61 minA milestoneYesterday we rehearsed and then recorded our final V.O for Fractus, which felt like such a milestone! Huzzah! We worked with a wonderful ...
larabarbierJan 111 minPanic stationsI’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 f...
larabarbierNov 14, 20191 minTilt BrushAs 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 y...
larabarbierNov 1, 20191 minFractus ReturnsWhen I was at LCC doing my MA in Screenwriting one of our tutors had us do an exercise where she brought in various images and we used th...
larabarbierOct 15, 20192 minPivot(al) Conversations Part 3Yesterday Simon and I met with Ana Tudor who is the Head of MA VR. It was a really brilliantly helpful meeting, and another one of those ...
larabarbierOct 8, 20191 minStoryboarding and storytellingPeople often ask Simon and I how we manage being a husband and wife team. It’s true that there are obviously additional challenges mixing...
larabarbierOct 2, 20194 minAI: Friend or Foe?Idea recap A.L.I.A.S – Artificial Lifeform – Intelligence Articulation System Theme: Humans replaced by technology Concept: In the very d...
larabarbierSep 28, 20197 minRaindance Immersive 2019Copyright: Raindance Immersive I was lucky enough to attend the Raindance Immersive Summit last week as well as nab tickets for the amazi...
larabarbierSep 25, 20194 minPivot(al) Conversations Part 2One 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 severa...
larabarbierSep 24, 20195 minArt, The Universe and EverythingYou 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 re...
larabarbierAug 13, 20192 minPivot(al) Conversations Part 1Over the weekend Simon and I had our first mentoring meeting with Avril Furness. For me, it was really great to have a conversation with ...
larabarbierAug 10, 20191 minA picture is worth a thousand wordsMy creative collaborator, Simon Ashbery, has been very busy the last month getting to grips with creating fractals. It’s probably best to...
larabarbierJul 27, 20196 minFantastic resources and where to find themOver 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 th...
larabarbierJun 21, 20194 minHistory of the World, Part 2In 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 (se...
larabarbierJun 7, 20192 minFractus: A new briefFractus is a VR experience that explores the repetition of history through a powerful audioscape inside a wonderous, infinite fractal uni...
larabarbierMay 30, 20191 minLearning to draw with a pencil made of codeMy partner in crime, Simon Ashbery, has written a brilliant and in-depth series of blog posts on his research into the rendering techniqu...
larabarbierMay 8, 20194 minLion TamingThis 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 exac...
larabarbierApr 13, 20196 minRooms by Enda WalshSo 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 ...