We won an award for The Ambush, our Viking VR experience created with The Ridley Scott Creative Group! The lovely people at the Aesthetica Film Festival decided The Ambush was the ‘Best VR experience of 2019.’
I was lucky enough to be in York for the festival so I saw what we were up against. The field of competition was incredibly strong. For such a young field VR filmmaking has come so far.
We were extra lucky to do so well because we had some pretty serious technical issues. The computer running The Ambush wasn’t quite up to the demands. It would run but it wasn’t loading in the music, any dialogue or any of the major characters.
Imagine Star Wars with no Luke, Vader, Han or Leia.
Luckily I spotted the problem before the festival was over and the lovely people at Dimension Films drove down from Newcastle with a more powerful computer to run it and we were all fine.
I’d say it was one of the high-points of my year especially because while I was there I got to eat an entire meal wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding.