Titanic (Broadway Musical Production, 2018/Soeul, South Korea Musical Production, 2017)
Set design for the new production of the musical, Titanic which opened in Soeul in October, 2017. The production is moved to Broadway in 2018.
Scenery designed by Paul Tate DePoo III
Renderings and virtual presentation model by William B. Roller
This is also a virtual reality project for the HTC Vive. Using a headset, it is possible to walk around and explore this set.
Virtual reality (VR) is a tool that I have been working with for a while now. I am hoping that this technology will help to improve design for the theatre, film, and television industries. It offers many advantages over traditional model building. It allows directors to truly have a sense of scale, to walk around and find their angles, and to manipulate the scene in real time. It is also more environmentally friendly, faster, and much less costly, since it does not get stuck in the tedium of finding art supplies and building models that only approximate the end result.
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