Rosie Summers recently wandered into a neighborhood park, and casually dropped this black hole into the grass.
"Soon as I saw its colossal size in an area of familiarity," she wryly notes, "the fear set in."
This rip of existence was made possible through several pieces of technology, and her own artistry:
"I painted it in virtual reality using Google’s Tilt Brush and brought it into the wild using augmented reality through the app ARize," she explains. Created using her Oculus Rift, the flying stars within the void were also created in Tilt Brush, with its animated brush option.
Rosie's rift is actually available for anyone with the ARize app: "[S]earch for 'supermassive black hole', they can pull it into what ever world they fancy."
This is just one of many Tilt Brush-based creations that Rosie has made, since gaining acclaim in the burgeoning art form of VR sculpting:
"I started my creative journey as a traditional painter," she explains, "but got bored of the flat and static and yearned to tell stories with more life, and movement, which is when I found animation and the art of telling stories through motion. It was whilst studying animation that I found VR to explore a more intimate connection to narratives and worlds.
"I realized the creative potential of VR was after I saw that iconic video of Glen Keane painting Ariel in Tilt Brush. I was HOOKED. The way he used this spatial tool to bring a brand new dynamic to his character design, I was amazed. Soon after I purchased a HTC Vive headset and that's where my virtual journey began. Now a good chunk of my life is spent in new dimensions, creating worlds, characters and telling stories in the immersive realm."
Now she creates Tilt Brush experiences like this to demonstrate, as she explains, that "it’s super easy for anyone to make content like this as long as they have a headset. (That's the expensive bit!) That’s what I try my best to show with my content, that VR/AR can be used as a powerful art medium for anyone and everyone, and not just for techy coders, which is a common misconception... I for example, don’t have any coding knowledge what so ever!"
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