VIRCA X KALISTA - Learning
Spring 2020 

'Learning' was a collaboration with musician Virca, during the spring of 2020. The idea of the piece was 'learning' ways to cope in the dystopian pandemic situation and also symbolize the inner learning, the evolvement and evolution of an individual human by creating a new worlds. It reflects the learning process of new techniques for the work of both artists, as well as the evolvement of humankind as a whole. For me personally, the piece was about learning to use Unreal Engine. 

In the work, my main goal was to create a VR scene of foggy and misty coast landscape, that remains me of my childhood spent in the Rauma archipelago. I used a lot of time and effort for the simulation of dynamic fog, that would  act realistically as the avatar moves through it. For that I used the particle system textured with depth map images of different fog textures. The landscape is created with Quixel Megascans, which I compined with my own scan-models.