In a career highlight, working with content production studio Factory 42, Sky and Dream Reality Interactive while at The Mill, I co-led the creature build for this experience alongside Alex Hammond.
Featuring volumetric captures of Sir David Attenborough, this VR experience takes you back of house at London’s Natural History Museum. Sir David sits opposite you and tells you all about various specimens you’re holding. As you put them down on the desk in front of you, they come to life and crawl or walk about or fly around the room. Together with Alex, we supervised a team of artists building these creature assets across multiple Mill studio locations. We collaborated closely with scientists and museum curators to ensure each creature was accurately depicted both in terms of appearance and movement.
Via Factory 42:
Press
Mashable
“The amount of Brits out there who would willingly sacrifice a finger or two to have a private guided tour of the Natural History Museum with David Attenborough is probably in the thousands”
WIRED
“Museums can take specimens that people on the other side of the world are working on. It's a democratisation or universalisation”
techradar
“I could see it become a part of museums way of allowing people to understand what treasures they have, what they mean, what they imply and what the reality of them is”
c|net
"Hold the World is an engaging piece of VR that seamlessly takes you from intimate to epic and back while teaching you about natural history”
Road to VR
“everything is lovingly reconstructed to maximize for realism, truly making you feel like you’re sitting across the table with the affable and always knowledgeable Sir David Attenborough”