The first stage of this endeavor began with experiments bringing comics into virtual reality. A team of students across various disciplines came together to realize this project, overseen by the Basically Good Media Lab. Over a year, a series of prototypes were developed, constructing and refining a language for adapting comics into a spatial medium. This phase culminated with the project being featured at VIFF in 2019.

• Dami and Falian depicted a science fiction comic book world. Players could walk into comic book panels, and explore them as full scenes.

• Explored interactivity in comics via exploration and agency over narrative perspective.

• Began research into optimizing illustrations created in virtual space, leveraging Quill by Smoothstep.

• Laid the foundations for VR-driven animation pipelines.